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Raheem Sterling to Manchester City (£49m)
Liverpool sold Sterling to City after a long drawn out transfer saga this summer for £49m. He became the most expensive English player ever when the deal was done. Since the end of last season Sterling had made it quite clear that his future lay somewhere else but Brendan Rodgers was hoping that his star player would change his mind and stay at Anfield. It was only after the third formal bid by Manchester City that Rodgers realized that it wasn’t worth keeping a player who wasn’t fully committed to the club and gave in to Sterling’s demand.