If your team is not performing well in the top leagues, promising youngsters often try to make a shift to other sides who could offer them not only a good salary but as well quality exposure to grow utterly. Liverpool is one such side who seem to be missing the next championship league thanks to their under expected performance in the EPL, and in European front as well where they are struggling to enter into the second stage. Under these circumstances, it is difficult for them to keep a hold on players like Raheem Sterling who has recently been in his top form and reportedly few others sides are also interested to bring him into their den. Last October, Reds manager Brendan Rodgers said they are in talk with player’s agent firm Impact Sports Management and possibly they will knock him until 2017. But after looking at their show in current season, it is highly unlikely 20-year-old would like to be with them without an exposure to European league. According to some reports, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are seriously interested in the Jamaican forward though nothing has officially been revealed by the player or his agent.
Rodgers is still confident they would be successful in hiring Raheem on a long term deal and as far other sides luring for him are concerned, he said, “I’ll never be surprised that teams are linked with Raheem. He’s such a big talent, who’s just turned 20 years of age. He’s a wonderful young player and a very mature young man. I’m quite relaxed about it.
“We’re a club who are trying to build something here. We were on a path for a couple of years, and we’ve had to come off that path since the summer. We lost some players and we’ve had to regroup again. He’s a real talisman for this team. He’s been a great example of the progress that a lot of the players have made here. He’s gone from being the youngest team player to one of the top players in European football.
“The club, I’m sure, will work very hard, and Raheem’s happy here. He loves being a Liverpool player. So I’m sure, between the club and the representatives, we can get a deal done that sees him go on and develop what is an exciting career. I think Raheem’s been brilliant,” he added. “I think he’s been absolutely outstanding. The kid played in a front row for me at the weekend, as a striker, moving across the line.”