sterling has been offered a £ 100,000-a-week deal to stay on merseyside and revealed in a bbc interview on wednesday that he would have signed for a lot less a year ago .
but in an in-depth tv discussion that liverpool knew nothing about until shortly before it was aired the 20-year-old admitted that it was ` quite flattering ' to be linked to arsenal .
sterling has attracted interest from clubs including real madrid , bayern munich , manchester city and arsenal .