Feyenoord play Go Ahead Eagles this weekend, in what could be Sterling’s debut. He has played for four of the biggest clubs in the Premier League – Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester City – and is now ready to rebuild his career in Holland.
Van Persie has explained City boss Pep Guardiola’s influence on his methods, telling the Guardian: “I had lunch with him, there were a couple of water bottles on the table and he was shuffling them, saying: ‘He moves in here and he moves right. He should go, he should commit, he should come out.’ And he was moving his leg like this… And he was talking about connections on the pitch. I arrived quite tired after a long day but I was buzzing. Watching the coaching, he was on Kevin De Bruyne, sharp as a knife. It gave me energy. And my friend, who knows him better, said to me afterwards: ‘This is the only way if you want to be a coach at this level.’ And I was thinking: ‘How can I give everyone from the washing lady to the director the feeling they have such an important impact on the club, that we are doing this together?’”