10 of the most memorable transfer related quotes in football history

#2 Aidy Ward on Raheem Sterling wanting to move away from Liverpool, 2015

Raheem Sterling's agent Aidy Ward made it clear that his future lay away from Liverpool

It was the most controversial transfer saga of the summer of 2015. Raheem Sterling had broken through at Liverpool as a superstar in the making, and after a tremendous 2013/14 season, he’d even become one of England’s starters in that summer’s World Cup. By 2015, though, things had gone sour for him at Anfield.

Quite what caused the issue remains largely unknown, but it appeared to stem from Sterling making contract demands that Liverpool weren’t willing to meet. By February 2015 word was coming from the club that contract talks with the player had stalled, and after some back-and-forth, Sterling’s agent Aidy Ward made the youngster’s position painfully clear with a comical quote.

“I don't care about the PR of the club and the club situation. He is definitely not signing. He's not signing for £700, £800, £900 thousand a week” were the exact words of Ward’s rant, but if he was hoping to show the fans that it wasn’t all about the money for Sterling then he was badly mistaken.

The Liverpool fans quickly turned on Sterling, calling him a “money grabber” and a “snake”, and two months later he was off to Manchester City for an initial fee of £44m. It was one of the nastiest transfer sagas in recent memory – with the ever-quotable Ward also labelling former Liverpool star Jamie Carragher “a knob” in another comical rant.