Arsene Wenger will step up his bid to sign 15-year-old wonderkid Raheem Sterling the month after next – to prevent interest from a large number of other clubs.
Since that match Sterling, who turned 15 on December eight, has been promoted to coaching with the west London club’s first team. Rangers had been prepared to make him the youngest first-teamer in their history to ward off the Premier League massive guns.
But the change of management that has seen Jim Magilton replaced by Paul Hart, and the rough weather, has seen his debut suspended. Sterling is still on track to beat the Soccer League record set by Reuben Noble-Lazarus, who made his Barnsley debut at the age of fifteen years and forty five days last season. But Hart, under stress to supply a play-off place, may not really have Sterlings future at the pinnacle of his agenda. Rangers are also aware that even first-team soccer may not assure their rising star to remain once a firm offer from one of his many suitors comes in. Though he’s being tracked by the largest clubs in the country Sterling is alleged to favour a move to the Emirates due to Wenger’s record of success with young players.
That claimed, Wenger is still set to move quickly to stop armoury being drawn into a fight for the player’s services.