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Sterling: Balotelli can achieve great things for Liverpool

Raheem Sterling is excited to be playing with new Liverpool teammate Mario Balotelli.

The ex-Manchester City man is being earmarked as a replacement for Luis Suarez, who joined Barcelona in a £65m deal in July.

"Luis will be missed, obviously," Sterling told Sport magazine. "With 31 [league] goals in a season, anyone would miss him. He's a massive loss, but the manager has brought in other players to fill the void.

"I haven't come across Mario too much, but he has the ability and the goalscoring ratio to achieve great things here. But obviously not everyone's going to score 31 goals, so the plan is to chip in with more goals across the team."

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