Fortunately we’ve only paid him a third of that. Chelsea still got him for two years 
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Bye then!
I know one day he’ll give an interview and blast Pep, Arteta and Maresca for how they treated him.
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In the imaginatively titled biography Raheem Sterling: My Story.
Arsenal and Arteta thought they were being clever signing this washed up Chelsea & City reject. Paid the price (literally & figuratively) for it.
We’ll never know for sure but there are some things that may suggest Arteta wasn’t all that keen on the move. Same with Neto.
Edu himself admitted that Sterling was a last minute thing.
When the news dropped about Chelsea practically exiling Sterling reporters were quick to ask Arteta about it. While Arteta was sympathetic towards Sterling he initially dismissed the scenario of us looking into him.
Something changed later.
Based on what’s been reported, club screwed up both the forward and goalkeeper recruitment. They couldn’t get the forward(/s) nor the goalkeeper(/s) they initially targeted. Season was underway and we essentially left till the last days of the window.
With Ramsdale going we had to sign a backup keeper but the club wasn’t prepared to pay Garcia’s RC so we ended up settling for Neto, another Kia client who also happens to be Edu’s agent.
On Sterling I think the choice was simple, Nelson was on 100k pw, one of the very first reports of the summer was that he wanted to go.
The opportunity of signing Sterling on loan and essentially covering part of wages that would equate what we would pay Nelson came up.
Given the circumstances and how late in the window it was, we took a chance on what seemed like a relatively safe move.
I guess in the end you could say Arsenal did the right thing on that choice because despite Nelson looking good early on for Fulham, his fitness once again let him down. He practically missed 90% of the season.
At the very least Sterling was available for us.
I think a fair criticism would be on why the club didn’t land their main targets and why was everything left so late. Neto and Sterling weren’t the only late moves, Merino came in late too and got injured in his first training session.
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Somehow, I don’t doubt this. He certainly was a panic signing. And at the time, I suppose it made sense to get someone rather than have no one.
Yeah, and this is what worries me about this Summer. Let’s hope for once we get the business done quickly, and get all the players we hope to get.
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This actually cheered me up lol
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Bye bye
Back to English Football with you Mr S.
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Thanks for the goal against Bolton, I guess.
Brutal! 
I won.
But damn it was costly.
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Not getting into Former Gunners is the ultimate punishment. Love it.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish. Saw the logic but its been an utter waste of time for all parties
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Shame it didn’t work out, but what a terrible signing.
File under “players we shouldn’t sign from rival clubs.”
Sterling
Havertz
Luiz
Willian
Cech
Welbeck
Sylvestre
Mkhitayran
Please stop.
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The fact that Jorginho is the only one that ‘worked out’ is quite embarrassing tbh.
20+ years and we’ve only managed to get 1 decent signing out of rival clubs.
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He was so clearly way past it, I don’t blame him for jumping at the chance to come here
He stopped being a top level footballer a good while ago, this move was never destined for success
Called it from the get go, back to Chelsea you go and on over £300K a week two years left that’s quite an issue for them to sort out
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