He wanted to leave as he was fed up being played out of position. Seems fair enough to me, not unlike someone leaving a job because instead of managing accounts, they were being asked to do the filing all the time.
Money is not the driving force, I'm pretty sure of that. Of course, the top guys who have the choice of Chelsea @£100K pa or Barca @£200K pa might well go for the Spanish side, but then so would every other single person in the whole world.
I'd rather stay warming the bench at Chelsea where I might get a chance to break into the first team and prove how good I was and win the title, rather than drop down a league and play every day and win nothing of note ever. That's just common sense. I think you're also forgetting that for every Rooney or Sterling there's a James Chester or a Michael Kightly, who really aren't earning the mega bucks despite playing in the same league. A footballer's career is a very short one, even if they were purely after the money I don't blame them at all for that: They're one bad tackle away from never playing again, and then what do they do?
Get a 'normal' job and live quite happily?
I don't blame Sterling for wanting a better offer, after all Rodgers was the one saying he was 'Messi like' not too long ago, you can't have it both ways.
The big issue is that it has all been played out in public via his agent which will most likely work in terms of getting him a bumper deal at Liverpool or a mega bucks move, trouble is it makes him look very bad in the public eye...
I am not a fan of Rodgers really, he comes across as a smug big head, which is no bad thing in football, but only after you have actually won things. Not sure how true it is but didn't he tell LVG that he could ring him if he needed advice on the English Game? Why would someone like LVG who has been successful in 3 or more countries want advice from someone who has won bugger all Also made me smile when he made a particular point of saying he would NOT make the same mistakes Spurs did with the Suarez (Bale) money., that worked out well didn't it...
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