John Greene

But in terms of falling off the radar completely in the midst of your career, 31 is still pretty young.

Yeah.

And there are still players of the ilk of Raheem Sterling who are still very valuable to teams.

Looking at someone like Leandro Trossard at Arsenal, for example, similar stature, similar type of player.

He's having a great season.

So it's not like the game has passed players of his physical capacity by.

We don't know what's going on in the background of Raheem Sterling's life over the last two years.

Who knows what has been going on personally or physically.

We just don't know any of that.

Would it be possible for him to come back and maybe in a different setting, in a different league and perform?

Of course it would be, 100%.

But the thing is, he's been earning 300 grand a week for the last 10 years.

So there's certainly no financial incentive for him to go and play somewhere else.

Chelsea have bought out the bulk of his contract, so...

he's already been paid for the next 18 months so he literally does not need to work again never he's achieved probably everything that he thinks he'll ever be able to achieve so it may all come down to personal ambition and drive does he want to add to his 81 England caps does he want to play in another major tournament does he want to win another medal does he want to prove all the doubters wrong Chelsea City who were both quite keen to get rid of him went to Arsenal could barely get a kick when he was there on loan

Because for some players, you dream of achieving all of these things.

You dream of the medals and the legacy, but you also dream of the riches that being an elite professional footballer will bring.

And for some players, you just become sated.

And he went over to us.

The only reason he spent a bit of time in MLS was because he wanted to keep himself trimmed for the World Cup.