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£100,000 For A 20 year Old? The bind That Liverpool Are Facing

The sterling performance of a player should entitle them to get the best wages at a club, while football is being thrown into the waters which just get filled with more and more money coming in from not only investors at a club but with multi-million pound deals being struck with sponsors, it is expected that players will be looking to earn a crazy amount of money while playing the most popular sport in the world.

While the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney and Gareth Bale might be earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a week it is a little bit of an oddity when a young player asks for money, that too a huge amount.

That is the problem Liverpool face at the moment with Raheem Sterling or actually his agent holding out for a huge wage increase on his current contract. Sterling has been on a reported £35,000 a week in a contract that runs out in 2017.

The 20 year old has been in sparkling form for the Reds this season and is their joint top scorer in the league with 5 goals but his performances have come under scrutiny as this saga of the contract extension keeps on rolling.

Too much, too young, too fast

The problem doesn’t just lie with the money but with the agent involved in the dealing, Sterling has been offered around £70,000 per week on the new deal but “he” has been holding out for a better deal (£100,000) and apparently he wants to earn more than that at Liverpool with the club’s top talent like Gerrard earning around £150,000 a week, figures play a huge role in the head of someone so young.

There is no doubting the fact that Sterling is one of the best young players in the World and with his contract issue coming up so soon, Real Madrid and Barcelona have already stated that they would like to see the young Englishman at their club but Sterling should stand clear from any such move only for money. Liverpool gave Raheem the platform and the growth which has given him the chance to play in the spotlight and he is pivotal to the Liverpool system, instead of staying here, moving to Real Madrid or any other club would only push his development on the back-burner since he would play less games and sure he might make more money but he wouldn’t grow as fast as he has at Liverpool.

Sterling is at a crossroads, should he listen to the club, which is offering him a jaw dropping contract deal at any stage of a player’s career or should he listen to the agent who can guarantee him a huge deal but not at the club he is playing at. Brendan Rodgers has already said that Liverpool will not offer Raheem a contract which is excessive,

“But we are certainly not a club who are going to give out way, way above what a player is worth at a certain time in a career.

“It is not a case of giving any player what they want.”

This could get rather ugly, very ugly pretty soon.