{"id":1925,"date":"2019-02-28T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/2019\/02\/28\/man-citys-sterling-could-go-down-as-an-all-time-premier-league-great-cole\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:23:22","slug":"man-citys-sterling-could-go-down-as-an-all-time-premier-league-great-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=1925","title":{"rendered":"Man City&#039;s Sterling could go down as an all-time Premier League great &#8211; Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> The 24-year-old scored 18 league goals on the way to the title last season and has 12 so far this term <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Raheem Sterling could become one of the greatest Premier League\u00a0players of all time if he continues to perform for Manchester City, insists former England international Joe Cole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old\u00a0is enjoying an excellent spell\u00a0with the English champions, having netted 30 times since the beginning of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling put in another impressive performance on Sunday in  City&#8217;s 6-0 thrashing of Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium when he scored twice as Pep Guardiola&#8217;s team moved top of the league.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>  <span>Article continues below<\/span> <\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Editors&#039; Picks<\/h3>\n<p>    Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea &amp; Pedro impress in Spurs win    Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show    Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over    Man City monitoring Barcelona &amp; Chelsea target Jovic    <\/p><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<p>And Cole has been mightily impressed by his displays on the wing, telling the Premier  website: &#8220;I think he&#8217;s turned himself into a top, top player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And a lot of credit has to go to Pep Guardiola and people like that. But the lad\u00a0takes on lessons and you look at the positions he takes up and the  of goals he scores now and, at the  he&#8217;s at, there&#8217;s still extra levels to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could be talking in five years time of Raheem Sterling being one of the top Premier League players of all time if he keeps on winning trophies, keeps on scoring goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>City bought Sterling form\u00a0Liverpool for \u00a349 million ($63m) in the summer of 2015 and he has since scored 58 times in 158 appearances for the Manchester club, lifting the Premier League once and the League Cup twice in that time.<\/p>\n<p>But things were not straight forward for the England man, and he struggled to make an impact at City until the arrival of Guardiola in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The great thing about him is \u2014 because he&#8217;s taken a move from Liverpool to Manchester \u2014 there&#8217;s been a lot of weight on his shoulders,&#8221; Cole continued. &#8220;He&#8217;s taken that on and he looks almost mentally indestructible\u00a0at the moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just to get in that team is a feat in itself, but he&#8217;s one of the top players in that team. And that is some going, and we should feel lucky and proud to have him as an English player and playing in our national team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sterling could help City win the Premier League ahead of his former side Liverpool this season, with a dramatic three-horse race also involving Tottenham looking set to unfold.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 24-year-old scored 18 league goals on the way to the title last season and has 12 so far this term Raheem Sterling could become one of the greatest Premier League\u00a0players of all time if he continues to perform for Manchester City, insists former England international Joe Cole.\u00a0 The 24-year-old\u00a0is enjoying an excellent spell\u00a0with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=1925\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man City&#039;s Sterling could go down as an all-time Premier League great &#8211; Cole&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}