Chelsea are swooping around the Manchester City winger and he could be braced to leave this summer transfer window....CONTINUE READING
Pundit Paul Merson has told Manchester City that they will miss Raheem Sterling and has suggested selling him to Chelsea could be a mistake. The two clubs are in talks for a potential move this summer.
The England international has being heavily linked with a move away from the Etihad, having been touted for a departure at various points over the past year or so.
Sterling has himself suggested he would be open to leaving City last season and Chelsea look to be leading the way for his signature.
Thomas Tuchel’s side are being linked with a multitude of players following Todd Boehly’s takeover of the club. It remains to be seen whether they are successful in their negotiations for Sterling, but City may be open to a sale.
Sterling has been a key player for Pep Guardiola over the past few years, scoring 85 Premier League goals since the Spaniard joined the club in 2016.
On Sterling’s potential move to Chelsea, Merson told Sky Sports: “I think he might take time, he plays at Man City to the absolute way that Pep Guardiola wants you to play. He knows when that ball is coming into the box, he’s coming to that far post, you look at [Jack] Grealish, he hasn’t got that at the moment.
“When the ball is whipped in and Grealish is still on the touchline — Sterling does it to an art. In my opinion, he will be massively missed. It might take time at Chelsea but he will be a great signing.
“I think Sterling is a good signing, I’d worry about Man City selling Sterling, you’re selling a lot of goals, people go to me ‘he’s always at the far post tapping them in’ he’s not pushing anybody out the way to tap them goals in.
“There’s an art to what he does and he’d be a massive miss for Man City and if Chelsea got him that’d be a major signing especially when you’re getting a quality international player at one of the top teams in football and get him to Chelsea that is a major signing.”
