By Danny Murphy For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:31 GMT, 9 March 2019 | Updated: 23:30 GMT, 9 March 2019
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To be called world class you have to be good enough to get in any team in the world, and you have to sustain that ability over a period of time.
On that basis I'd say Harry Kane and Kyle Walker are the only English players of the current crop I'd be comfortable calling world class.
Raheem Sterling is close to joining them — ask me in 12 months and if he carries on his form like this, you couldn't argue.
Raheem Sterling is now close to being world class, his finishing has improved
I must admit when I heard City had offered Liverpool £50million for Sterling, I thought 'take him there'. I knew he was talented but wasn't certain he could deliver on it year after year.
The work Pep Guardiola has done with him is incredible. Sterling has all that natural flair but
