Ladies and gentlemen, we have our summer saga. Raheem Sterling is going to tell Liverpool that he wants to leave and that’s music to the ears of Manchester City. It’s disgraceful behaviour from Sterling. Why can’t he appreciate how brilliant and wonderful and special Liverpool Football Club are? Why can’t he be more like Dejan Lovren or Adam Lallana? Still, Liverpool are not going to take this lying down. They are going to have their revenge by nabbing Edin Dzeko and when James Milner tells City that they can stick their £34m contract offer where the sun don’t shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, they are going to sign him as well. Assuming Arsenal do not get there first.
Meanwhile, Liverpool will duke it out with Tottenham for the Juventus defender Angelo Ogbonna and have told Mario Balotelli he can do one. Let’s just forget this ever happened, eh? Balotelli will be offloaded to Sampdoria.
Big Samuele Allardici will be told by West Ham that he’s toast next Monday and, to make matters worse, his old chum Rafael Benítez is the favourite to replace him. The Mill still expects to see Avram Grant sitting in the Upton Park dugout next season, though. A hero returns.
Manchester United are preparing a £36.3m bid for the Lazio attacker, Felipe Anderson, while Real Madrid are prepared to throw in Fabio Coentrão to sweeten the David de Gea deal.
Aston Villa will pay £2.5m to make Manchester City legend Scott Sinclair’s loan move permanent.
And finally, Liverpool, want to tempt Luke Garbutt, whose contract at Everton runs out this summer, to Anfield. Disgrace. Why can’t he be more like Sterling and try to leave when he still has two years left on his contract?
