{"id":1175700,"date":"2022-08-12T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/12\/raheem-sterling-opens-up-on-why-he-joined-chelsea-from-man-city\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:02:38","slug":"raheem-sterling-opens-up-on-why-he-joined-chelsea-from-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/12\/raheem-sterling-opens-up-on-why-he-joined-chelsea-from-man-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Raheem Sterling opens up on why he joined Chelsea from Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"429\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-12-114437-696x429.png\"   alt=\"Raheem Sterling\" title=\"Raheem Sterling\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raheem Sterling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chelsea forward Raheem Sterling has said he \u201ccouldn\u2019t afford to waste time\u201d by staying at Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2018-19, the 27-year-old made fewer league starts each season for City, with 23 last term.<\/p>\n<p>After seven years at City, Sterling wanted a \u201cfresh challenge\u201d and made a\u00a0\u00a350m move to Chelsea\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I was 17 I\u2019ve been a regular starter, and to get to the peak in my career, not to be playing regularly was something I wouldn\u2019t accept,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy personality is to try to fight and change the scenario, but it didn\u2019t come and that was it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a person, you strive to achieve, and I just felt my time at City was getting limited on playing time for different reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t afford to waste that time, so I needed to keep that same level and a fresh challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sterling was signed by Liverpool from the QPR academy in 2010 and became a regular in 2012-13, before a\u00a0\u00a349m move to City\u00a0in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling won four Premier League titles with City, the League Cup five times, and the FA Cup once, but the Champions League eluded them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>City lost 1-0 to Chelsea in the 2021 Champions League final, and although Sterling started that game, he only started five of City\u2019s past 13 knockout games.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/_126283923_eadf5918e7101c8aec9dfeb543de1ce7260c2208.jpg\" alt=\"Raheem Sterling playing for Chelsea at Everton on Saturday\"\/><figcaption><em><strong>Sterling made his Premier League debut for Chelsea in last Saturday\u2019s 1-0 win at Everton<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt does feel like coming home,\u201d he added. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s my full journey \u2013 going up to Liverpool and manifesting what I wanted, going to City and living the dream, and now coming back to London as a grown adult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been in the football game a while now, I\u2019ve got my head on my shoulders and I know exactly what I want from my life and football, so it\u2019s the perfect time to come back and have a new challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aiming to be \u2018more vocal and drive the team on<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since his Premier League debut aged 17 with Liverpool, Sterling has made 469 first-team appearances and earned 77 England caps, and aims to be more of a leader at Chelsea than he was at City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInside the changing room and at the football club, there\u2019s a developing side of me which I\u2019d like to see a lot more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s to be more involved in decisions in the dressing room, to be more vocal, and try to drive the team on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sterling was Chelsea\u2019s first major signing since the\u00a0Todd Boehly-led takeover, which followed the club reaching the final in four of the six cup competitions they played in over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the option that was tailor-made to my personal goals, and with my family as well, and the direction the club is going in,\u201d Sterling added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a team that\u2019s competing and only going to get better. With the new ownership as well, it made a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was tough, of course, with the time I spent at City and there are lots of memories and top moments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the year and a bit that I was in and out of the team taught me a lot about myself, made me value a lot of things and I tried to get things in order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to make the decision that\u2019s best for yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"GgKIfB7Sr0E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dee Eretwa Guo  - Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (12-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GgKIfB7Sr0E?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raheem Sterling Chelsea forward Raheem Sterling has said he \u201ccouldn\u2019t afford to waste time\u201d by staying at Manchester City. Since 2018-19, the 27-year-old made fewer league starts each season for City, with 23 last term. After seven years at City, Sterling wanted a \u201cfresh challenge\u201d and made a\u00a0\u00a350m move to Chelsea\u00a0last month. \u201cSince I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[58,1761,15691,697,1100,18994,9162],"class_list":["post-1175700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-city","tag-joined","tag-man","tag-opens","tag-raheem","tag-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}