Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: It's the morning of July 12, 2015, and Raheem Sterling's in his Range Rover driving to Liverpool's training ground. His phone rings. 'Morning gaffer,' Sterling replies as he takes the call. 'Just on the way into training,' the youngster continues. 'Okay, come into training but you're not coming on tour; we've accepted a bid,' Brendan Rodgers informed Sterling - who faces Liverpool for the first time this weekend following his summer departure. It's a moment he'll always remember. Having missed two days of training that week, the hype over whether Sterling would board the plane for Liverpool's tour of the Far East was at fever pitch.Raheem Sterling felt he would stay before Brendan Rodgers sparked a seismic shift in proceedings in FebruarySterling viewed Rodgers' comments as a ploy to paint him as the bad-boyForward is adamant he would have travelled on Reds' pre-season tourReaction from Liverpool fans to him at Stoke was the final nail in the coffinEurope's elite were making discreet overtures and were willing to pay double what Liverpool were offering 
 Question:The first set of discussions took place at the end of November, ending in _ rejecting a five-year contract worth £85,000 per week.
Output:
Raheem Sterling