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Raheem Sterling transfer news: Real Madrid 'monitoring' Liverpool midfielder, says Zinedine Zidane

The 20-year-old has scored six times during this season's Premier League

Kashmira Gander

Tuesday 07 April 2015 13:43 BST

Zidane reveals Real Madrid are watching Sterling (Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)

Real Madrid are watching Raheem Sterling's situation at Liverpool, Zinedine Zidane has said.

The revelation comes as the England winger and bosses at Anfield discuss his future at the club, after he recently insisted he would not sign a new contract until the summer.

Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City are also rumoured to have the Liverpool winger in their sights, according to the Telegraph.

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Francis Jeffers

The quintessential English transfer flop. Transfer guru Arsene Wenger spent £8m on the often-injured striker who managed just four Premier League goals.

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Scott Parker

In the first half of the 03-04 season Scott Parker was the best midfielder in the country, helping Charlton to sit in the Champions League spots. Left The Valley to join a Chelsea team that included Claude Makelele and Frank Lampard and managed just 15 Premier League matches in a year and a half, never finding favour under Jose Mourinho.

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Shaun Wright-Phillips

Another young English star that Chelsea ruined, the winger was more successful than Parker but couldn't get a regular place under Mourinho, sharing playing time with Joe Cole, Damien Duff and Arjen Robben.

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Wayne Bridge

Bridge's tale is slightly different as injury was what spelled the real downfall for him. Had been Chelsea's first-choice for 18 months before suffering a terrible injury at Newcastle from which he never truly recovered. Asier Del Horno and then Ashley Cole were signed to fill the void.

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David Bentley

After a brilliant couple of years at Blackburn brought an England call, Spurs spent £15m on the 'next Beckham'. His form took a nose dive and he retired from football at 29 after spells at several clubs.

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Ashley Young

Has been excellent this season but United fans will be kidding themselves if they didn't think they would get more from a player that cost around £18m. Has just 12 goals in four seasons for the club after firing 36 in his previous four at Villa.

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Daniel Sturridge

Has developed into one of the Premier League's best strikers but his time at Chelsea was miserable. In four seasons at Stamford Bridge there was only one where he was a regular and even then he was often played on the right wing.

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Andy Carroll

Looked like he would become the next Alan Shearer when he scored 11 Premier League goals in the 2010 before a mega money move (and all the expectation that comes with that) bore down on him. Never got it going at Liverpool and has been injured too often since to truly develop.

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Stewart Downing

Like Carroll, the weight of a big price tag and increased pressure saw the man once touted as the solution to England's problem left wing lasting just two seasons at Anfield.

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Jack Rodwell

Was hailed as a future England captain after bursting onto the scene at Everton and making his England debut in 2011. 16 Premier League games in two years has seen his stock dramatically fall, while an attempt at a renaissance at Sunderland has been anything but smooth so far.

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Wilfried Zaha

Signed by Sir Alex Ferguson, Zaha never got close to making the grade under David Moyes, even as Manchester United struggled. He was handed England caps in 2012 but managed just four apperances for United before a loan move to Cardiff and then a permanent move back to Manchester City.

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Scott Sinclair

Fired Swansea into the Premier League and then became a match-winner as the Welsh club secured their spot in the division at the first time of asking. Moved to City but managed just 19 games in three years at the club, never getting on the scoresheet. Still on the books of the club but will likely leave this summer.

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Former Bernabeu player Zidane, who now manages Real Madrid's Castilla B-Team, told the Daily Mail: “We know who Raheem Sterling is, and of course we are monitoring him as a player."

He said there are "very few players in the world who can improve the Real Madrid squad", and reasoned it "make[s] sense we monitor the progress of the best young players in the world."

Zidane added that the club also formerly kept watch of current Real Madrid players Gareth Bale, Isco and Raphaël Varane.

The footballing legend's comments come after Sterling last week told the BBC that he one day hoped to play "somewhere sunny".

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