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Manchester City's Anfield old boy Raheem Sterling has revealed that his own daughter taunts him with Liverpool chants at home.

Some fans have claimed the Reds are living “rent free” in City manager Pep Guardiola's head and it seems that Sterling cannot avoid them, even in a domestic setting.

The winger moved from Liverpool to Manchester City in a £49million deal in 2015 after refusing to sign what Brendan Rodgers described as an “incredible” new contract offer.

Although he subsequently won back-to-back Premier League titles at the Etihad in 2018 and 2019, after adding a sixth European Cup to their list of honours last season his former club Liverpool are now just four wins away from their first League Championship in 30 years.

Jurgen Klopp's unbeaten side – who have won 26 of their 27 Premier League matches so far this term – have built up a record-breaking 22-point lead at the summit ahead of nearest challengers City.

Sterling cannot escape the chants of the Kop in his own house with daughter Melody, born shortly after her father’s breakthrough into the first team at Anfield in 2012, apparently not switching her allegiance following his move down the East Lancs Road some three years later.

Quoted by the Evening Standard , Sterling told AS: “She has my sort of personality and she likes to banter and chant Mo Salah’s songs to me.

“She knows the rivalry between Liverpool and the team that I play for so she's always singing their songs and trying to wind me up but that's just her personality.”

Sterling isn't the only one of Liverpool's rivals whose own child has used the Reds to goad them though.

Even Lionel Messi , considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all-time, revealed last summer that Mateo, the middle boy among his three sons, would wind him up about Barcelona's 4-0 capitulation at Anfield in the Champions League semi-final second leg when the Catalan giants surrendered a 3-0 advantage from the Camp Nou.

The Argentinian said: “We played at home, and last time, we kicked it about, he would tell me, ‘I’m Liverpool, who beat you. You are Barça, and I’m Liverpool.’”