Raheem Sterling’s agent Aidy Ward is at it again. He’s told the London Evening Standard in an exclusive interview that even if Liverpool offered his client £1million-per-week they wouldn’t sign, amongst many other missiles launched at Liverpool, Jamie Carragher, other former players, Sterling’s critics and his own critics.
Ward told the Standard: “He is definitely not signing. He’s not signing for £700, £800, £900 thousand a week. He is not signing.”
Of this whole saga he’s dragged Sterling into, Ward doesn’t feel any remorse nor regret.
“I don’t care about the PR of the club and the club situation. I don’t care.”
The agent’s name doesn’t matter through this, so it’s natural he doesn’t care about anything as long as he gets his pay day, the biggest loser here is Sterling. Ward has dragged Sterling’s name through the mud, to the tune of most Liverpool fans hoping the club recoups a huge fee for him and sends him on his way.
Liverpool legend and current Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher essentially told Sterling to shut up, play football and he should be embarrassed.
To which Ward responded: “Carragher is a knob. Everybody knows it. Any of the criticism from current pundits or ex-Liverpool players – none of them things matter to me. It is not relevant.”
Who knows that, though? That’s one shocking assumption.
Ward has taken his lumps through this with multiple pundits calling for his sacking by Sterling and has now begun to attempt to defend himself.
“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.”
Ward deserves every word of criticism coming his way but as Sterling just kind of stands behind him and says nothing, other than an unsanctioned interview in the buildup to the match against London to try to clear his name that ultimately backfired, the blame is beginning to spread to the 20-year-old. And rightfully so. He hasn’t come out and said anything about Ward: not even a shut up please. The only rational explanation is that Sterling nodding his head with every toxic word that desperately oozes out of Ward’s mouth.
With every passing day Sterling’s corner, led by Ward, comes up with a new way to bring themselves unwarranted, unnecessary negative headlines.
He added “I am not worried. Worried is making a decision not knowing what is going to happen. Every Premier League club will make a bid for him.”
This divorce is getting uglier and uglier.
