When he sits down with his biographer (probably in a year or two), Sterling might ask himself what it was all for? What purpose did it serve agitating for a £49million transfer when – with sound advice – he’d have had it anyway without the need for the ill-timed interviews, political manoeuvrings by his agent and constant attempts to lay head grenades and act as a daily surveillance system at Melwood? Instead, he’s got what he wanted with the additional, entirely avoidable extra of having his reputation sullied."#Рахим Стерлинг