This is the hilarious moment Raheem Sterling pranked his teammates - leaving the likes of John Stones looking far from amused at being targeted.

The Manchester City star midfielder crept up to players as they slept on the England team's jet plane and squeezed their noses - filming the amusing encounters on his mobile phone and sharing them on his Instagram account .

The Jamaican-born star, who has more than 2.8million followers, jolted the confused-looking star footballers awake with a start.

In the footage, the angry-looking Man City defender John Stones appears to push Sterling away with a swipe of the hand which narrowly misses the prankster.

Sterling, 22, meanwhile can be heard enjoying the 'rude awakening' and laughing in the background.

Sterling goes in for the pinch (
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sterling7/Instagram)

And even Manchester City's social media team found it funny - tweeting both players: "You gotta watch yourself around @Sterling7, Stonesy!"

The video footage features the players wearing England strip - and is understood to have been filmed during the team's flight back from Lithuania after their 1-0 in the World Cup qualifiers.

The footage on Sterling's Instagram showed he then moved on to his next victim - Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.

Sterling was the prankster (
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Action Images via Reuters)

His second target seemed to find it more amusing that his first, with Pickford laughing as he shook him off.

The camera they turns around to face Sterling who can be seen grinning from ear to ear.

Sterling and Stones are currently preparing for their clash with Stoke at 3pm on Saturday,

Pickford meanwhile is training for Everton versus Brighton at 1.30pm on Sunday - hoping to rejuvenate his team's rocky start to the season.