{"id":162413,"date":"2019-10-23T07:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=162413"},"modified":"2019-10-23T07:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:31:47","slug":"sterling-speaks-on-comparisons-with-messi-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=162413","title":{"rendered":"Sterling speaks on comparisons with Messi, Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester City winger, Raheem Sterling, has said he needs to score 50 or 60 goals a season, to be compared to the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n

Sterling has been included on the 30-man shortlist for the Ballon d\u2019Or this season alongside Ronaldo and Messi, who have each won the trophy five times.<\/p>\n

There are suggestions the England could clinch the individual award, after 32 goals this calendar year for club and country.<\/p>\n

But Sterling told FourFourTwo: :Messi\u2019s one of a kind.<\/p>\n

\u201cBro, if I\u2019m scoring 50 or 60 goals a year for the next 15 years, then you can talk to me about that \u2013 right now, don\u2019t talk to me about Ronaldo or Messi!<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to hear that connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying I don\u2019t value myself, but those are two guys who have been doing it for 15 years. That\u2019s not heard of: 40, 50, 60 goals for 15 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a long process to go for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m developing and I want to get my numbers better every single year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019m doing that in 10 or 15 years\u2019 time, then OK, maybe. But it\u2019s early days.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City winger, Raheem Sterling, has said he needs to score 50 or 60 goals a season, to be compared to the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Sterling has been included on the 30-man shortlist for the Ballon d\u2019Or this season alongside Ronaldo and Messi, who have each won the trophy five times. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10175,2398,8712,4665],"class_list":["post-162413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-man-city","tag-messi","tag-raheem-sterling","tag-ronaldo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}