Raheem Sterling is among nine players that Chelsea are looking to offload before the summer transfer window closes. Sterling is coming off a disappointing season on loan at Arsenal and still has two years remaining on his £325,000-a-week contract.

CHELSEA are willing to send Raheem Sterling on loan again – as they try to shift up to TEN players before the transfer window closes. Both the Blues and Sterling would prefer to find a

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Christopher Nkunku, Nicolas Jackson, Renato Veiga, Axel Disasi, Carney Chukwuemeka and Ben Chilwell will also be allowed to leave either on loan or permanently if the right opportunity presents itself; the former is still being heavily linked with a move to Bayern Munich.

Moving Sterling will not be easy because of his high wages — more than £300,000 a week — and the potential fee that Chelsea demand, so some compromises might need to be made.

After being frozen out in the “bomb squad” at Cobham for the first half of last season, things finally got moving when the midfielder was loaned out to Dortmund in January. He played a fair amount there and looked to have done enough to earn a permanent summer move either to the German giants or to another team.