Liverpool legend John Barnes isn't expecting too much from Raheem Sterling during the World Cup.
Both he and Raheem Sterling were born in Jamaica, played as wingers for England and Liverpool and have borne the nation's hopes for the team's creativity and flair at the World Cup finals.
Barnes told the Mail on Sunday: "Maybe he is going to be inconsistent because he is young. But in terms of what he did in the last few months of the season, he was probably the best player in England. Not the best English player; the best player in England, the best attacking player in England.
"In terms of the way we play, we both like to dribble and Raheem has improved a lot of his end product. Now he doesn't dribble all the time. He plays one-touch or two-touch football. He's able to score, he's able to create. At the start of the season, I thought his end product wasn't what it should have been, but in the last three months of the season - not just in terms of his dribbling but in terms of his goalscoring, his ability to play one-touch, two-touch, his football awareness - it all improved in a small space of time."
