Chelsea star unlikely to accept £10m settlement to leave and make free transfer move | OneFootball

Chelsea are apparently considering coming to a settlement with Raheem Sterling to mutually terminate his contract at the club.

Sterling to be offered £10m settlement to terminate contract

Raheem Sterling arrives for Man City game

Sterling is on around £300,000 a week, and his understandable reluctance to reduce that has made it impossible for Chelsea to sell him. He has two years left on his contract,

A piece from Football Insider claims Chelsea will try to offer him £10m up front to leave now. That pays him out of about a third of the money he is owed, while allowing him to immediately move and start earning somewhere else too. As a free agent, he would be able to go anywhere, even outside of the transfer window.

Of course from Sterling’s perspective there’s no reason he should leave any money on the table – apart from a desire to get out there and start playing football again.

Chelsea – Sterling settlement sounds like wishful thinking at best

We’ve got to be honest here – this just sounds like wishful thinking to us. Paying off £10m of Sterling’s remaining £30m contract isn’t actually that different to selling him for a nominal fee while agreeing to pay a chunk of his wages.

The only difference here is that this method allows us to get rid of him outside of the transfer window. But if we couldn’t sell him through the whole summer (or the whole of last summer), what makes us think there will suddenly be a suitor at a good price now?

There is always the chance that serious injuries or a bad start to the season by somebody means he becomes an emergency option for somebody – but that feels like a long shot. Chances are we will just be sitting here waiting until January, when the whole circus can start up again.