Raheem Sterling does not think Manchester City have had enough credit for their achievements over the last two seasons.
Pep Guardiola's side broke a number of records on their way to smashing 100 points in the Premier League over the 2017/18 season, then followed up a double-winning campaign with an unprecedented domestic treble. While they could not repeat their league points tally, they needed the second-highest ever total of 98 to see off Liverpool's challenge.
City's manager caused a reaction in the penultimate week of the season with a strange claim that the media wanted Liverpool to win the league, and queried why a story about Paul Pogba dominated the top of websites the day after his team's victory over Brighton.
Sterling, who swapped Anfield for the Etihad in 2015, echoed his manager's thoughts as he said that another club would have been given more credit for their achievements and wants everyone to understand how difficult it was to win everything that they have done.
“No one’s made a big deal out of [the treble]. If another team had done it, a lot more would have been made out of the team, of the individuals,” he told the Financial Times.
“Even last year when we won the league - with 100 points - it wasn’t really highlighted in a way where I felt it was right. People [need to] understand it’s not easy - the teams that we’re playing against, the managers that set up against us.”
