Premier League - Paper Round: Liverpool to lose Sterling?

              

                                  Raheem Sterling of Liverpool and England

 Paris Saint-Germain are ready to swoop for Liverpool's Raheem Sterling as the England star stalls over a new contract, the Independent on Sunday claims. The 19-year-old currently earns £43,000 a week and Liverpool hope an extra £20,000 will persuade him to extend a deal that has two years to run. However, oil-rich PSG are prepared to offer Staerling a six-figure weekly wage to prise him away from Anfield.

The Independent on Sunday's story is pretty slight, but the fact it makes the front of their sport section suggests they think it has some legs. It is still very early days, as Sterling is already well paid and has time to run on his current deal. However, he is arguably the best teenager in world football (seriously, tell us a better one) and this illustrates the difficulty Liverpool will have keeping hold of a prize asset unless they can consistently secure Champions League football. But the player is going nowehere in the immediate term.