Ian Wright fears Raheem Sterling could “go out with a whimper” unless the forward finds a way to make his Arsenal loan a success and steps up following Kai Havertz’s “devastating” injury.
“The opportunity that’s arose for him, I thought this is the time where he would have went, ‘wow, OK, I’ve left (Manchester) City, I’ve gone to Chelsea, it’s not gone right but Arsenal, who are trying to challenge for it, have come in for me’.
The former Gunner fears Sterling could ‘go out with a whimper’ unless the forward makes a success of his Arsenal loan.
Put to Wright that Havertz’s injury could give Sterling a chance and that it looks like a now or never situation, he said: “Exactly.
Arsenal tried to sign Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins during a fruitless winter window that been followed by reports that Havertz suffered a season-ending hamstring tear during the club’s warm-weather camp in Dubai.
