"HE'S NOT ON THE NAUGHTY STEP!" 😡 Simon CLASHES With Jim Over His Reporting of Sterling's Situation!

Enzo maresca has been talking uh Chelsea in European action they've got to try and see off cervet which I think they probably will do but um on this subject of this bomb squad we've been talking about those who've been training on their own marasa has made it pretty clear that if you're in that group then you stand next to no chance of getting a single minute even under him at the football club but it begs the question why is it viewed acceptable for a club to force a player out of the door but when a player does the same it's a disgrace this is marasa on those who aren't training with the first team my advice it's just uh he knows exactly what he has to do I don't think he needs to be honest my my advice because I prefer to be honest with the player so with the rim happened exactly the same they are all player the ones that they are not involved they are all players that uh they are not going to be involved and they don't get any minutes in case they stay so I don't know what's happen if when the window thrf is closed who is here and who is not here but the only thing I can say that the ones that they are going to get mines are the ones that uh I think that they can help us so if you're in that group and you're training some distance from the first team group Sterling's one of them the moment the transfer window closes and you're still here you're not going to get minutes well maybe maybe not depends what you do but it's a false comparison you just gave there why about forcing people out of clubs because the obligation that people have to a player is to pay him that's the predominant obligation and at no point can anyone avoid that obligation even if they want the player out a player Downing TOs and refusing to play because he can't get something he wants and ultimately a move is a completely different thing that's not meeting the obligations the only responsibility that a football club has is to provide a training environment under the obligations of sporting chance and pay his salary if a player subsequently can't make himself available to play because he's got the hump because he can't get something he wants or he can't engineer the move that he prefers to have like Riad mahrez did at Manchester City and Lester and was ay supported by the Ridiculousness of the PFA in that situation they're completely different Dynamics so it's not the same the only obligation if I buy a player and he breaks his leg I still got to pay him until he fixes himself yeah and if I buy a player and I don't want to play and that's my choice choice as well as long as I pay him yeah of course it is but M and I'm quite sure have been a number of players who discover what you're like as an owner and one out and agitate for a move out well first are they wrong to do that first and foremost they wouldn't discover what I'm like as an owner because I didn't interact with them second of all the manager's responsibility is to pick the side and if a manager decides that a player is no longer Surplus Surplus requirements then that's it then the club's responsibility is either to facilitate a solution for the player which happens in all walks of life they go somewhere else or to suck it up and pay a player that nobody else wants H so that's the respons it's not the same no one's Downing tools no one no one's Downing tools the players down tools though when they don't get what they want all right so it's I so when we're categorizing it as when someone forces a move through why is it all right for a club to force a player out of a club rather than rather than a player we've got here we've got rahee Sterling who's under contract and they'll pay him and the football club is agitating for him to get out the car no they've just told him they're not agitating for anything God forbid the player doesn't h a hand in a transfer request or turn up for training he doesn't want to hand in a transfer he's he's going about his business very professionally first and foremost he if he hands in a transfer request you'll have a financial consequence as a result of it which is why you won't hi in the transfer request because he doesn't want to lose loyalty payments or whatever else that goes with the transfer request being put in second of all if a club decides for whatever reason that the direction they're going in is not including that player given that there's only a certain amount of players that can play on a field there's nothing awful about that as long as they meet their obligations to keep playing him if they keep paying him that's their contractual obligation I don't understand this confected outrage or sentiment about a player that's no longer chosen by a player by a club to be part of it but they'll still meet their obligations there's no one saying to him tell you what we're going to put you over there and we're not going to pay you if someone said that then everyone could be up in arms but we have said before and Ben Jacobs was on breakfast this morning saying exactly this wasn't that long ago when maresa said Raheem you're important to me and you're important to this football but don't you get bored of rehashing this Half Baked line it's only part of a conversation not really because it's factually correct it's not it's have a situation maresa and Chelsea have changed their view of itely out cont changed their approach of it Raheem you're in the naughty Corner he's not in na you're staying there until you move that's a choice he's not as long as you say you ain't going to play but as long as people like you keep perpetuating that nonsense people are going to keep listening to it first of all he's not in a naughty step he hasn't done anything wrong he's just not required I nowh near the first team doesn't mean he's on a nauy step that means he's not fit for what they think want him for which happens in every Walk of Life and every circumstance and and and the idea that what Mesa said in context as we have discussed 57 times if Mesa walked into a press conference and out of the blue announced that the entire world with no provocation whatsoever this player is really important and people could say it but if somebody asks him a question is Rahim Sterling an important player he has a choice he can be incredibly undiplomatic and cause absolute Mayhem by turning around and saying he's totally unimportant or he can say important so he said he important so he takes a but not that important because he getting shot of them fine but importance is all relative isn't it he's important to a certain point is an important asset you're important up to a point yeah you're an important asset up to the gate there and when that gate lives you can go well your importance now moves into the fact that we want to retain some commercial value in you so that's important so the context of it could be well is but if you want to frame it in such a a silly sentimental way silly well no one's on a naughty step why is he on a naughty step it's not silly what's naughty step I'll tell you why well qualify the naughty step why is if you can't what you can't qualify the naughty step the nauy step you're not training with the ones who have a future when you put someone on nauy step because they done something wrong not that recently not that to not that recently you were very much part of it because you're important now you're not so it's down to you to get out it's a ridiculous conversation but it when it comes down to it why is it viewed acceptable for the club to force a player out I just described it for you but because it's done to money because they're paying them but they haven't forced him out he has a choice he's got two choices to stay and earn his money or maybe prove them wrong and fight his way back how about those two conundrums he's not going to do that Pro prove your maybe stay and prove you're worth a a place in the team the moment the transfer window closes you're not going to get minutes right and what's the club going to do the CL the club's going to pay the club's going to pay him 1.2 million pounds a month to do nothing so what a wonderful little world for R Sterling but the club offered him those ter correct and those are the terms the club club and the club are prepared so so the club so so if these performances are so dire would you still be advocating for him to be part of the team you would agree with me that the club to a large extent has put raheim s in a corner here they boxed him in well how well move or rot in the reserve move or rot in that group that are not going to feature or or accept the reality of various opportunities that are out there we'll try and engineer the best opportunity for you we don't think two years ago we thought you were something that you aren't you aren't for us going forward forward we're quite prepared to meet our obligations but in the real world we don't think you're going to play on the team now if that's okay for you then we'll accept our responsibilities if it's not okay for you then how do we find a solution amongst ourselves it doesn't involve being put on a naughty step it doesn't involve um half-baked nuan conversations that aren't all qualified in the full length and breadth of what was said a a little lifted quote thrown in to constantly weaponize the argument right Rahim Sterling is not on any naughty step he's simply not somebody that they think is not is good enough he's got no choice now though has he well he's got every choice he can sit there and wait for the jry transfer window and not play he can also he can also put transfer request him he can also say to Chelsea he's not going to do that why he's not going to do that but why he's not going to agitate but why like the club's agit so they get on with the alternative he's not going to agitate so he doesn't want to be part of the solution in so your argument is is that rahem Sterling should be able to stay at Chelsea and play in the first team even though the bloody manager doesn't want him to is that is that the Crux of your argument there's Neil in Plymouth Sammy you don't get it um you're you're happy to force a player out of a club who's under contract you don't care where he goes what he gets paid or how it affects his family heaven forbid a player what am I social worker employ club and wants to go mid contract you you just don't want to lose good players it all comes down to how good and important the player actually is I agree with that final line yes in the eyes of maresa yes of course it does in the eyes of of any s individual but he's got no choice so we so we get a useless buffoon in and because we want to make sure that his mental well-being is okay we keep him in the side by that logic the man's a fool if it was in his football club he'd probably be saying something different the bottom line is all that's happened is that Raheem Sterling's shelf life has expired for two reasons I suspect one they're paying him a lot more money than they should have paid him in the first place but they wouldn't have got him if they didn't play him and now they've got buyers regret and I accept that as a principle so the club expects a player to honor his contract but the player shouldn't expect that in Reverse but they are because if if Chelsea can't get him away they're going to honor his contracts there wasn't it didn't say in his contract if it says in his contract you will play 38 games every single season come rain or shine they'd be breaching his contract but it doesn't say that it says Rahim Sterling will get paid £350,000 a week and get selected if the manager wants to and in the meantime what happens now R Sterling can easily find a solution he can say look I accept the writings on the wall so here's what I'm going to do I'm going to facilitate an outcome for us all I'll put a transfer request in I'll accept a restructured deal like everybody else does and I'll go play my football but he doesn't want to do that because it will be about money right so let's have it right so Chelsea's about money Rahim Sterling's about money when does it become about football when does it become about football Chelsea have made a football decision in my view they don't think the kid is good enough more fo them for signing him and they've got to meet their obligation for the next three years because if he sits on his backside like Winston Bogard did all those years ago for Roman Abramovic he'll get paid as we described the other day I suspect numerically incorrectly he'll get 70 million pounds for the next three years not bad work if you can get it or he can take his poor maligned backside off somewhere else and get equally as much money probably somewhere else because there'll be no transfer fear involved or some sort of solution that enables the raheim Sterling to progress I wonder if if if there's ever a line in his contract incidentally Raheem if it starts go peer shape for you you you'll be training on your own but there's no line in any contract telling him where he's going to train in the first place no no no no oh he didn't expect this to come about he didn't expect this situation to arise he didn't and now he's in it think that ultimately the the first team manager can train 42 players in because he says he can't so the fact that Rahim Sterling Falls outside the predominant 21 and they can only train 21 players setting up for a match day what would you have them do set up another coaching Network that it doesn't involve the first team manager but involves a shadow first team manager that coaches the disenfranchised players maybe it wasn't the best idea to sign 42 players or maybe the reality of football is you trade them in and out okay Raheem maybe out there tomorrow we shall see will it be a swap deal with Sancho uh involving Manchester United we shall see we shall see then but that is then this is now it's quarter past 11 Jim White and Simon Jordan Monday 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