Raheem Sterling will double in value at Manchester City, says Manuel Pellegrini

Manchester City might have paid a pretty penny to bring Raheem Sterling to the club this summer, but boss Manuel Pellegrini believes the £49million fee due to Liverpool will prove a bargain in time

Sterling is expected to make his debut for the club tomorrow evening after his controversial Anfield exit, with many observers shocked at the fee for a 20-year-old with barely a season and a half of senior football under his belt. But Pellegrini is delighted with his new signing, and insists that within a couple of years Sterling will be talked of as the £100million player he described prior to his transfer. “I am sure, in two or three years, we will see that we paid the correct price for him,” Pellegrini told the Manchester Evening News. “English players are more expensive here as they are fighting with all the other nationalities. It is difficult. “I didn’t say he was worth £100m. I said he could be worth that in a few years’ time.”