Chelsea set to sell £50m star just ONE YEAR after buying him

Stuart Telford

• Updated: 23 Apr 2023 09:59 BST
• 3 min read

Chelsea have been tipped to cash in on Raheem Sterling just one season on from paying Manchester City nearly £50 million for the England winger's services.

The Blues looked to have pulled off one of the coups of last summer's transfer window, persuading City to part ways with a player who had been key to them winning four Premier Leagues in five years with an offer of £47.5m.

A London boy, there was hope Sterling would be the missing piece of the puzzle as the Blues looked to be crowned English champions for the first time in six years.

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But having returned 13 goals and six assists in his final Premier League campaign with Man City, Sterling has only managed four and two in each column in his first with Chelsea, and it is rumoured he was the player Todd Boehly zeroed in on when he stormed the dressing room after last week's 2-1 defeat to Brighton.

Speculation to 'drag on'

"Fans cheered when he was taken off last weekend, and that says it all really," transfer specialist Dean Jones told Football FanCast. "Sterling's just not in a good place. There's obviously been some speculation around his future. I think that speculation might drag on a bit."

Sterling was linked with Real Madrid before he joined Chelsea, and Manchester United before he left Liverpool for City in 2015, but the former are unlikely to come in for him now.

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Chelsea have an embarrassment of riches - at least on paper - in Sterling's position, with Mykhailo Mudryk, Joao Felix, Christian Pulisic and Hakim Ziyech also on the books, and they would be willing to cash in.

Whether they could make back the £47.5m they spent on him, let alone the €90.1M (£80.4m) he is still rated at by FootballTransfers' in-house algorithm, is another matter entirely.