Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling Rubs Salt Into QPR’s Wounds With Instagram Message
SO. How did Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling mark his return to QPR in today’s Premier League match? He didn’t score in a pretty lucky 3-2 2 win for the Reds. But had he done, chances are slim that young Sterling would have bowed his head out of resprct for his former club and curbed his enthusiasm.
Sterling marked the game by posting an Instagram picture of him in full QPR kit. He added the message:
“Back to where it all started great win from the boys 3 points yerrrr boiiii.”
Liverpool captured Sterling because they outbid all other teams, offering QPR an initial £500,000 for the 16-year-old, according to the Mail. In the Standard, that fee was £375,000 with a 25 per cent sell-on clause, and Sterling signed at 15.
Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling celebrates with his team-mate Steven Gerrard after his cross is put into the net for an own-goal by Queens Park Rangers’ Steven Caulker (not in picture) during the Barclays Premier League match at Loftus Road, London.
Picture date: Sunday October 19, 2014.
In The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin, we learn:
Sterling was a regular in pick-up games organised by Walley on a pitch marked out in the back garden of the home of Tim Sherwood, Tottenham’s technical co-ordinator. A trial game was arranged, between Tottenham Under 15s and a Brent Schools select, featuring Sterling, who was thought to be available for £200,000. Remarkably, Spurs turned him down, because academy coaches were split about his long-term potential and the challenges of his background. Fulham were convinced they were about to sign him. “We had Raheem in the building, and were totally blown away when Liverpool came in for the boy,” admitted Barry Simmonds, their chief scout. Anderson and McParland had successfully lobbied Sterling’s family, and close friends, that Raheem’s best interests would be served by a £1 million move to Merseyside.
A month before his 15th birthday, he was billeted with ‘house parents’ and installed in the fifth form at Rainhill School in St Helens.
Judging by that message, Sterling has few regrets…
Posted: 19th, October 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink
