Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has told Raheem Sterling to showcase his quality to England and Gareth Southgate.
Sterling was hauled off at half-time in England’s 4-0 win at Malta last month, but has scored five times in all competitions this season as City have made their way to the top of the Premier League alongside Manchester United.
“Raheem is a young guy. He has to know that job is not easy. He cannot expect it’s always going to go well.
“I want to see him when it’s going bad with the national team how he will react. He mustn’t complain.
He’ll say: ‘Gareth Southgate, Pep, I’m here, I am going to show you how good I am.’
“That is the only way to become a better player. He has a lot of space to improve: in the last pass, to be more clear in the last action.
“When he’s able to get that he will become a top, top, top player.”
“We know that he’s a guy who likes to go in the middle and attack central defenders,” Guardiola added. “The way we wanted to play it [at Chelsea] was so necessary to be wide.”
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