If this was Barkley at Everton, the media would be parroting the "moving to win things" line and this hatred Sterling is receiving wouldn't come in to it.
Yet because it's liberpewlfudbalklub, it's "greed" - despite the fact they have a snowballs chance in hell of winning anything substantial in the near future.
Double standards. Not only that, there wasn't an eyelid batted when Lallana left Southampton for Liverpool for exactly the same reason Sterling wants to leave the club.
Yes, players like Mirallas or Lukaku in the near future may want to leave Everton, but as a fanbase we're realistic to know that the reason they'll want to leave is for success. Liverpool don't have that mindset - they still think they're a "top" club, when they're anything but. They're basically just above us in the pecking order, and barely distinguishable from where Tottenham are now.