Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher is angry seeing Raheem Sterling's stalled contract talks splashed over the backpages. Carragher wrote in the Daily Mail: "A headline reading 'Kop fight to keep Sterling' was not what was needed before a game of huge significance for Liverpool.
"Do not underestimate the importance of the showdown with West Brom. If Liverpool fail to win again, the international break will be an absolute nightmare and the mood will worsen.
"Now, before we go any further, I want to make it clear I have no issue about a journalist unearthing a story. Nor, on a separate matter, do I have a problem with agents trying to get the best possible deal for their clients. In both circumstances, people are just doing their respective jobs.
"The reason for my fury was the timing of this particular story. Whoever has let it be known that Sterling is in no rush to commit his future to Liverpool has made a massive mistake. No thought has been given to the big picture.
"If anyone around me had put out a story like that about me during my career, never mind the day before a game, our relationship would have been over. My agent, certainly, wouldn't have done anything like that and I would never have allowed that, even if he had wanted to."
