COMMENTARY
When Tottenham sent Kazaiah Sterling on loan to Sunderland on January’s deadline day, the expectation would have been for the young talent to at least be given a taste of first team football down in League One. Friday night looked like the perfect opportunity for the Spurs faithful, who might not have seen much of their young talent during his impressive rise through the youth teams, to see him in the flesh – Sunderland’s clash against Accrington Stanley televised live in the UK, but Sterling was nowhere to be seen among the match day squad, as revealed on the Black Cats’ official Twitter account. Considering he was not playing senior football in north London the fans’ angry reactions are totally understandable, for they want their youngster to be learning and developing so he can become a star for the Lilywhites. Instead he is sitting on the sidelines for a League One outfit when he could be doing exactly the same at Tottenham, where he would at least be under the watch of Mauricio Pochettino. It does seem strange he was completely left out and barring injury or fitness issues, Tottenham might be inquiring as to why he is not getting the football expected.
Tonight's team news, in association with @aphrodite1994…#SAFC pic.twitter.com/LVihslGBeR
— Sunderland AFC (@SunderlandAFC) February 15, 2019
This is Futbol has gathered a selection of the supporters’ tweets:
What a great decision to loan Sterling to a team who wont even put him on the bench https://t.co/axppwAAlhI
— Chicago Spurs (@chicagospurs) February 15, 2019
So sterling wasted a move away then
— 7 (@SuperSonaldo7) February 15, 2019
Don't understand why Spurs keep sending youth players to this trash teams that won't play them SMH
— Arizona Spurs (@ArizonaSpurs) February 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/coys100/status/1096482242753376256
No Sterling in the squad. Hope this doesn’t turn into a pointless move for him https://t.co/3a8Q0xyCqv
— Brogan Clasper (@Brogan_Clasper) February 15, 2019
In fairness the loan had gone through before they signed Will Grigg – doubt we’d have let him go there if we’d known
— Emma Storey (@emmastorey81) February 15, 2019