Former Manchester United Full-Back and prominent Pundit Gary Neville claimed that Raheem Sterling had no “kind of intelligence” to adapt his game after losing an electric twist.
This inability to evolution was made possible by an observed fall that Neville leaves strongly, doubting the suitability of sterling for the role of replacing Kai Havertz.
Havertz was preferred ‘number nine’ by Mikel Artete, but with Gabriel Jesus she has already set aside because of a long -term knee injury and no center forward signed in January, despite a Late approach for Ollie WatkinsGunners are in a terrible situation by entering the campaign.
No natural replacements for HavertzWho is not a striker anyway.
The completion job is likely to go to the wing player Leandro Trossard, someone who has at least occasionally played centrally, but fights for form for scoring goals in 2024/25. With Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli ‘False Nine’ Options, but both also injured, Sterling was left as the only other alternative.
However, the former star in England has been barely presented since she joined the loan from Chelsea, and the eight -time champion Premier League Neville suggested that his struggles in recent seasons reduced the inability to adapt his game after starting so young.
“I think that when a fast player, say Michael Owen or Raheem Sterling, starts at the age of 16, and they somehow like the late 20ths, 30, but have played a full career,” Neville commented on the new episode Hold on to football Podcast.
Tinsel Recently, he turned 30, but was regular for Liverpool at the age of 17. Neville’s assessment is that the player’s body experienced “decay” and is more like that of a typical 34-year-old, who may have started at a later time of 20.
“I mean, especially players who rely on speed,” he explained. “For Michael and Raheem, it is difficult for them to adapt to another type of role because they do not have skill and type of intelligence. They play that speed and sharpness, while [Ryan] Giggs adjusted and could enter the central midfielder. [Paul] Scholes, obviously adjusted. “
The highlight of Sterling came to Manchester City in his early twenties, scoring 79 goals only in three seasons from 2017 to 2020. The city has brought in at the right time, selling Chelsea for £ 47.5 million in the summer of 2022, about what they had previously had, around what they had previously paid for Liverpool for the 2015 player.
But Sterling’s trajectory has been downward since then, with this pleasantly most religious season of his entire career to this day.
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