{"id":10252,"date":"2021-06-21T13:10:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T07:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=114242"},"modified":"2021-06-21T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T07:40:50","slug":"sterling-not-satisfied-with-the-lack-of-manchester-city-playing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/sterling-not-satisfied-with-the-lack-of-manchester-city-playing-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling not satisfied with the lack of Manchester City playing time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raheem Sterling revealed that he was not happy with his lack of playing time at Manchester City last season in Premier League (PL). He has been linked with a transfer from the Premier League championships after finding himself on the bench on several occasions towards the back-end of the 2020-21 campaign, including Champions League quarter-final and semi-final ties.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling scored the winning goal against Croatia for England in their opening two games of the EURO 2020 last week. He said, \u201cIt is just happiness, just being happy, enjoying my football and that is what I am doing being here with the national team. If you\u2019re not playing, you are not happy. That\u2019s me, that\u2019s been me since I was a kid, if I\u2019m playing football I am happy, if I\u2019m not I\u2019m not happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further says, \u201cI do feel there\u2019s a bit of an overreaction on the whole in terms of I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s\u2026 I just feel there\u2019s more of a panic on the outside than inside the building. I\u2019m not saying on the outside its negativity but we don\u2019t want any negativity creeping in and performance levels dropping, and that\u2019s all that it will do.\u201d He also added, \u201cI feel the fans have an expectation of us with the players we have in the squad and that is rightly so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raheem Sterling revealed that he was not happy with his lack of playing time at Manchester City last season in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":32760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1722,220,1721,218,378],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-euro-2020","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-pl","tag-premier-league","tag-raheem-sterling"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}