‘Nothing will keep Sterling at Liverpool’

Raheem Sterling will not sign a new deal at Liverpool even if the club offer him £900,000-a-week to stay at Anfield, his agent Aidy Ward has stated.

Ward expects Manchester City or Chelsea to be his most likely next destination, ruling out a move to Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich.

Ward also launched a stinging attack on ex-pros and pundits, including Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher, who he describes as ‘a knob’. 

Sterling’s protracted contract negotiations have dogged the club ever since he controversially turned down a £100,000-a-week offer and he now looks set to leave this summer.

Ward told the Evening Standard: “I don’t care about the PR of the club and the club situation. I don’t care.

“He is definitely not signing. He’s not signing for £700, £800, £900 thousand a week. He is not signing.

“My job is to make sure I do the best with them (my clients). If people say I am bad at my job, or they are badly advised it does not matter.”

Graeme Souness, Mark Lawrenson, Ian Wright and Jason Roberts are among the former pros who have waded into the debate, with opinion divided over whether Sterling is receiving the right advice over his career choices.

“For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract — to the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me,”Carragher said on Monday Night Football.

'The lad is from London and he obviously wants to go back home. It might not be about money. It may be about trophies or playing in the Champions League”. — Sports Mail