Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge: If I'd Stayed At Manchester City, I Would Still Be On The Bench

Daniel Sturridge left Manchester City because he feared his route to first-team football would for ever be barricaded by big-money imports.Continue reading...


And if Liverpool arrive at the gates of heaven in Sunday's title duel at Anfield, the England striker will be a step closer to proving that expressing your talent on the pitch will always yield more job satisfaction than picking up monster wages to sit on the bench.
Sturridge was a kid bursting with promise when City struck oil in that well-known suburb of Manchester, Abu Dhabi, and he found the fast-track blocked as motorcades of new signings, financed by fistfuls of petrodollars, swept into Eastlands.
His respect for City, the club who ripened his talent, remains undiminished.
But Sturridge has no regrets about chasing his dreams elsewhere, first at Chelsea and now with the Reds, instead of being left to wither on the vine, saying: "I would not have got to where I am today if I had stayed."
Had he stuck around to compete with the likes of Robinho, Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko at the Etihad club, his chance of leading England's front line in the World Cup this summer might have been deferred to the twelfth of never.

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