{"id":1144746,"date":"2022-07-08T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/08\/sterling-nears-chelsea-switch\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:49:06","slug":"sterling-nears-chelsea-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/08\/sterling-nears-chelsea-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Nears Chelsea Switch &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raheem Sterling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling is close to joining Chelsea after agreeing personal terms on a deal that will make him the Blues\u2019 highest-paid player, sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The exact transfer fee is yet to be finalised as talks continue, but Sterling is expected to move for a figure in the region of \u00a345 million plus add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>With Romelu Lukaku now back on loan at Inter Milan, N\u2019Golo Kante is Chelsea\u2019s top earner on \u00a3290,000-a-week, but sources have suggested Sterling\u2019s wage will surpass that figure.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are now confident of completing a deal with City, and Sterling could join his new teammates on Saturday\u2019s flight to the United States, where the Blues are embarking on a three-game preseason tour.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling\u2019s arrival would be the flagship signing new chairman Todd Boehly was seeking as the Blues look to move on from the Roman Abramovich era.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Raheem Sterling Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling is close to joining Chelsea after agreeing personal terms on a deal that will make him the Blues\u2019 highest-paid player, sources have told ESPN. The exact transfer fee is yet to be finalised as talks continue, but Sterling is expected to move for a figure in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[58,3827,9162,1441],"class_list":["post-1144746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-nears","tag-sterling","tag-switch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}