I personally don't care either way about him. At the time he left a club that was going nowhere and one where the manager was playing him at wing back at times. The way he went about leaving was wrong but I think that was largely orchestrated by his agent wasn't it? Let's not forget he was still basically a kid at that time.
Fans also can't really get pissed off with Sterling for leaving the way he did when we pinched him from QPR as a 13/14 year old. It works both ways