Raheem Sterling’s loan move to Arsenal during the last summer transfer window was initially seen as a promising opportunity for the winger to revive his career under former coach Mikel Arteta. Following a challenging spell at Chelsea, where Sterling was removed from first-team activities under the direction of the new manager, the transfer seemed to offer a fresh start at a club where he already had a connection. Arteta, familiar with Sterling’s talents from their time together at Manchester City, was eager to see if he could unlock the potential that had made Sterling a Premier League standout in previous years.
However, Sterling’s impact at Arsenal has been limited, with underwhelming performances in the few matches he has started, leading Arteta to bench him in recent weeks. Reports from Football Insider suggest Arsenal’s coaching staff has not been impressed with Sterling’s efforts on the training ground, raising concerns about his commitment and attitude.
This disappointing situation may reflect why Chelsea’s management, particularly Enzo Maresca, decided to part ways with Sterling in the first place. Sterling’s lack of impact on the field and apparent struggles to integrate into the Arsenal squad indicate that the decision to loan him may not have been as beneficial as initially hoped.
With the season progressing, Arsenal may have to look elsewhere for creative depth, as it appears increasingly likely that Sterling’s future with the club is limited. Given his loan status, the Gunners will likely send him back to Chelsea at the end of the season unless there is a significant turnaround in both his form and attitude. For now, Arsenal’s experiment with Sterling seems to be falling short, and he faces an uphill battle if he hopes to make a lasting impression at the Emirates.
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Surprised how bad he as been ,I said he would be a good signing when we got him .
Should have keeped EsR and done away with sterling and Merino
As always Dan Kit,
Arsenal never learn. Apart from the odd signing from Chelsea, we mainly get their dud.
Don’t be surprised if at the end of the season, Arsenal try to make his transfer permanent.
It may seem far fetched, but remember this Arsenal were talking about.
Derek,
Do you crave attention by any chance? Why would Arteta want to sign Sterling? He was available and filled a hole for the season. You know that though, don’t you?
Sue,
No I don’t crave attention. And yes Sterling did supposedly fill a hole, but to me it’s just another example of Arteta’s incompetence in the transfer market, to one leave it to the last minute as usual to bring in a player, and then to make matters worse, bring in another Chelsea reject.
When will this club ever learn.
DEREK, let’s go back to the time of, in my opinion, the greatest manager The Arsenal have had in my time of supporting the club for over 70 years, Arsene Wenger.
Would you say that he often left signing players to the last minute and, therefore following your logic, proves he was incompetent, or is it one rule for Arsene and another for Mikel?
Of course I’m sure you are aware Wenger also signed “chelsea rejects” or is that just another rule for you to attack Arteta?
Ken1945,
No I to didn’t like it when Wenger did it either, and yes he signed some real stinkers along the way to, you name me a manager who hasn’t.
But for me to see Arsenal continually make the same mistake’s is laughable at best, and as Arteta is the one at the helm, he’s the one I will target.
Derek
He didn’t intend to sign Sterling
It was a decent idea to bring him in on a season long loan and one that may still have some benefit
Do you know the clubs’s financial situation?
I don’t, but I suspect signing who you want and being able to conclude the deal that you want depends on a couple of things happening. The player wanting to come and there being the funds to enable it. Sterling is imo a stop gap.
Sue,
While I hear what you say, don’t tell me that there are not better stop-gaps as you call them out there. Because if there isn’t then football in this country is in a real sorry state.
In the eyes of the manager who knows the club and the player there probably wasn’t a better stop-gap.
at the end of the day Sterling is a top player who has full experience in winning PL and playing in high pressure environment. And as the above said was willing to come to Arsenal.
Just hope he can rediscover his desire
Crave attention! Lol
Get a grip …
Keep it up derek ,breath of fresh air around this forum ,gets tiring listening to the same Arteta love ins making their excuses.
Always admire fans that speak their minds rather than fans that try to get others banned .
A weird statement DK – who’s trying to get who banned?
I also think Derek is a fresh of breath air for debating purposes and I respect his views, but trying to ban him?!
Come on, he’s not THAT important, just as you and I aren’t!!
No words needed Ken regarding the banning police .
Phil gone ,HH threatened with the same consequences,the oordinary sue would t have been so woke.
I’ll leave it there as I could be next .
Give me JA 5 years ago or so ,when we could go at it without the weird Fareta
Fans
I find this whole thread deeply offensive and disturbing
I’d like to think that AdPat is the master of his site and allows or disallows posts as he sees fit
No way back for Jon Fox who also ruffled plenty of feathers but did anyone put the knife in on him?
I don’t think so, and certainly NOT FROM ME under any circumstances to ANYONE who posts on JA
SueP, I’m certain this has nothing to do with you and why would it?
I have no idea why you feel this way, buy I will drop the debate with DK immediately.
Ken1945
I would not dream of you not pursuing your debate – you are your own person, as I am mine.
I looked at how the thread developed from my jest with Derek. We do have opposite opinions but it is humorous and as far as I can tell, that’s all it is. It seems as though another party looked at differently
Way back, Phil wrote the most appalling response to one of my independent posts. It has stuck with me due to his content and was picked up by several others who were as disgusted as I was. You have daughters and I’m my dad’s daughter. He crossed the line and it didn’t need me to “tell on him”.
As for HH I let him know on this forum that I would not engage further. This is not uncommon for others to let it be known that they will not engage with other posters. In fairness to HH we have kept our distance so no problem on either side.
I’m sorry that a poster appears to think that I’m the cause of JA not being as it was. I can’t help that but I try to engage in well mannered discussion. Early in my foray into this type of communication I may have overreacted- but that is way, way back in the past
I didn’t see or read the post you refer to SueP, but this is a well run independent FOOTBALL site for Arsenal supporters.
I have no time for any personal vendettas, although I might have, unintentionally, caused one or two.
Let’s just get on with discussing the club we all, supposedly, support.
I don’t remember you telling me we won’t engage further. I stopped engagement with you not even about football or Arteta but when I understood your post to mean you empathize with a certain middle eastern colonizer in an ongoing conflict. I never got a chance to read your reply because it was promptly deleted by Pat.
A reply to HH
Just to clear this up –
I made it clear on the basis of your misplaced assumption about my position relating to the Middle East conflict that I had no further interest in engaging with you. It was accusatory and did not reflect my views in any way. You just jumped in and made the wrong call.
Actually Ken,
You’ll see on two of the pages, that Admin Pat did warn me yesterday to stop the Arteta hate or I would be removed.
I responded by telling Admin Pat, that I don’t hate anyone, and that that hate is a very nasty word.
I don’t know what Arteta is like as a person, but I don’t like him as a manager, and there’s a big difference, I hope you’ll agree.
I meant Ken1945, sorry about that.
DanKit and Ken1945,
Appreciate your comments. While I know that not everyone will agree with all of my views, I say what I think and sometimes it may come across as a bit overly aggressive. It’s certainly not my intention.
So, if I’ve offended or offend anyone in the future it certainly wasn’t or won’t be my intention, so I’ll apologize now in advance.
But it won’t stop me voicing my opinion, whether people like it or not, it’s up to them.
And there is another option, if you find my opinions that boring or tiresome, then you don’t have to read my post’s as you’ll clearly see my name on them.
But having said all that, wouldn’t this forum be a boring place if we always agreed.
Anyway my fellow contributors to this forum, have a good evening, I’m now signing off on this post.
Missing you already😂👍
To judge a player on just a few minutes playing for The Arsenal is absurd!!
The same was said about Havertz – Chelsea reject, waste of money etc etc – yet, under MA’s guidance, he’s become a very good asset to the club.
I don’t know if Raheem will make the grade at our club, but I’m going to see if MA can do the same thing he did with Havertz.
It’s ridiculous to say any player we sign is a reject – that means that nearly all of the Invincibles were rejects, while chelsea signed a reject in Ashley Cole 😂😂
Ken1945,
Now I’m not Ashley or should I say Cashley Coles biggest fan by any means. But he was certainly no dud.
At that time he was up there with the best left backs in world football.
And although he won some trophy’s at Arsenal, if my memory serves me correctly, he was pretty successful there wasn’t he. He won trophy’s, being an Arsenal fan these days, I wonder what trophy’s look like.
If there’s anyone out there who could jog my memory, I’d be forever grateful.
You miss my point – Arsenal sold him, so he must be a dud or a reject… according to those who say we don’t want any chelsea (or any other team) rejects.
That’s how Havertz was seen, even before he’d kicked a ball for us!!
I am not a great fan of Sterling but my goodness he hasn’t been given opportunities to get into any rhythm e.g He got substituted at Bournemouth because of the Saliba red card- Judging players on a few minutes here and there, especially when we are losing is a self defeating scenario which leads to loss of confidence and form again and again until they have little market value. I think there is a greater issue for our management team as our squad players seem to lack confidence and capability with poor performances but many after leaving Arsenal perk up e.g Willian, Smith Rowe, Tavares
Mark Bantam,
That’s because there no longer being coached by Arteta.
If Tavares comes back to Arsenal, watch his performances nose dive again.
So explain Havertz then?
Explain Havertz then !
What’s he done Ken
65 million spent on a player to be pushed as a centre forward when he is t one .
Imagine if we had spent that on a proper striker ,you never know we might have clinched a title by now .
Not to say he’s been a bad buy ,but he wasn’t needed ,same as countless other players over Artetas tenure.
Your giving a different argument DK – Let’s stick to DEREK’S statement that being coached by Arteta will bring a player down shall we?
Perhaps YOU can tell me why Havertz has improved so much since his move from chelsea?
As for your point about him being pushed as a CF, why not write an article and we could have a conversation on that specific point?
You never know, I might agree with you.
He’s improved so much !
Won the CL scoring the winner at Chelsea.
Yea he’s done us loads of favours .
As for me writing an Article,good one .
Not talking about what he did for Chelsea Dan, keep to the subject!!
Has he improved under Arteta since he moved from chelsea or not?
Why not write an article? Your views are, sometimes, more relevant than articles that do appear now and again.
We’ve had many a chinwag and I see no reason why you shouldn’t write about Mikel Arteta, as you have such strong views about him.
He has improved but he has not given anything remotely close to the money we paid for him.
Additionally, he is failed addition to our squad considering he was bought as a Xhaka replacement but pushed upfront when it was obvious he is not fit for the purpose.
Another Arteta acquisition I don’t understand is Joginho. I don’t know which one is a bad decision between paying 13m for him when he had 4 months left on his contract or extending his contract for another year when he only played odd games here and there.
Speaking about Sterling, can you sir or anyone think SmithRow or Nelson would do badly if they are trusted by our coach.
Dan Kit,
I’m with you to a large extent. If you know you need an out and out striker, why would you spend 65 million on a player and try to make him into a striker, rather than going out and buying an actual out and out striker. (I know it’s radical thinking on my part, but it might just produce results).
According to the article, “Arsenal’s coaching staff has not been impressed with Sterling’s efforts on the training ground, raising concerns about his commitment and attitude.”
It’s true he hasn’t had much playing time but is that as a result of the coaching staff’s view of him or just one of those things?
Clearly, there’s not much point in having him warm the bench if there are opportunities to play him. If he gets more playing time, then there will be more evidence to suggest whether he really is a disappointment or not.
Exactly my point – any player leaving the toxic atmosphere at chelsea the last two seasons would have needed time to get back into shape.
Fair points from both you and Bertie, but I would not expect to hear of lack of commitment and attitude. As it stood at the end of the transfer window, he was offered a lifeline by Arsenal
But Arteta said he has been fantastic in training. Strange!!!!!
Reggie,
Arteta has been saying the same thing about Jesus, Trossard, and Martinelli. And we are seeing what a raging success they’ve all been this season haven’t we.
Take anything that Arteta say’s with a pinch of salt. With them being his buys, he’s hardly going to say anything against them is he.
take anything said by any manager of any team in a press conference with a pinch of salt
on his limited minutes so far, I have seen good energy, enthusiasm and determination from Sterling on the pitch – a shame he was unavailable against Chelsea as late game goal scramble was ideal situation for him
I am sure we will see Sterling with a winning goal or two against his name before his loan expires
but I doubt will be made permanent
I wasn’t sure about his acquisition nor do I fancy it TBH, but he is temporarily one of us now, so provided the desire is to play for the badge is on display I wouldn’t mind backing him like every other players we have.
Now that sentiment I DO understand and agree with Vamos!!