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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Raheem Sterling made to feel ‘worthless’, says close source amid player’s arrest

Raheem Sterling, on the pitch playing for Feyenoord
A source close to Raheem Sterling, who is now playing for Feyenoord, said the footballer has been made to feel ‘disposable’. Photograph: Wart Brinkerhof/MTB-Photo/Shutterstock

Raheem Sterling has been made to feel “disposable” after a decade at the top of football, a source close to the former England star has said, after his arrest on suspicion of driving “whilst unfit through drugs”.

The source said the former Man City and Chelsea winger, who is now playing for Feyenoord in the Netherlands, had been suffering from “immeasurable” psychological strain after an “extremely tough couple of years”.

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