Manchester City have made an improved £40m offer for Raheem Sterling, but Liverpool are expected to reject the latest bid.
Having
had an offer of £25m plus £5m worth of add-ons turned down last week,
City have upped what they are willing to pay by £10m. However, that
still falls short of the £50m minimum Liverpool believe the 20-year-old
is worth and they are likely to turn down the offer.
Sterling
has already turned down Liverpool’s offer of a new £100,000-a-week
contract and told the club that he will not sign a new contract with two
years left on his current deal. The England international is supposedly
keen to join City with reports circulating on Wednesday that the club’s
latest offer is their final bid.
Last week’s initial bid was
immediately rejected out of hand by the Merseysiders and while this one
has not been given the same treatment the outcome is likely to be the
same. Liverpool have always maintained they do not want to sell
Sterling, who has two years remaining on his contract, but there is no
doubt the situation has deteriorated since the youngster turned down a
new deal in January.
His agent Aidy Ward’s subsequent claim that
his client would not even sign for “£900,000 a week” prompted Liverpool
to cancel a scheduled meeting to reopen talks in May. But last month
the manager Brendan Rodgers said he expected Sterling to remain at the
club and, at that point, they were still planning talks before the end
of the season to try to extend his stay – even after Ward’s comments
threw a spanner in the works.
“Raheem has two years left and I
expect him to see that two years through and continue to behave as
immaculately as he has done,” said the Reds manager at the time.
Credit: Guardian Sport
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