Raheem Sterling: Footage of Guardiola and Arteta chatting about Chelsea signing in 2018

Raheem Sterling truly announced himself as a world-class player during the 2017/18 season.

The new Chelsea signing has closed the book on his seven-year spell at Manchester City in which he rose from a fledging talent in the English game to arguably the world’s finest goalscoring winger this week.

However, it wasn’t all plain sailing for Sterling at the Etihad Stadium with his first two seasons at the club feeling like a case of: ‘much of the same,’ with his inconsistent Liverpool form carrying over.

But they do say that a high tide raises all ships and that certainly felt like the case during Sterling’s third season in Manchester where he really came into his own on the way to Premier League glory.

It was the year that everything clicked for Pep Guardiola’s men as they evolved into one of the greatest teams that English football has ever seen, amassing a record-breaking 100 points along the way.

And a series of crucial goals from Sterling in the early weeks of the campaign against the likes of Bournemouth and Southampton not only set City well on the way to glory, but really allowed him to nail down a place in the team.

In the end, the England international could close out the season with a sensational record of 23 goals in 46 games, ultimately setting him on the path to even more prolific years in 2018/19 and 2019/20.

Nevertheless, it felt rather apt and fitting that Sterling’s breakthrough in sky blue was the one that was captured in revolutionary depth by the first in Amazon’s “All or Nothing” documentary series.

With fly-on-the-wall cameras tracking City’s journey to ‘centurion’ status, the evolution of Sterling into a top-class player was also beamed into fans’ living rooms with the good, the bad and the ugly all