Stars at top club on the siding
Almost 60 million euros for not a single game
23.09.2025 – 10:57 a.m.Reading time: 4 min.
Raheem Sterling and Axel play at Chelsea FC Chelsea Disasi no longer a role. The club once paid high replacement for them. Even today, the two professionals still cost the Londoners a lot.
The start of the season of Chelsea cannot be classified properly. The club from London got eight points from the first five games in the Premier League. In addition to an intoxicating 5: 1 at city rival West Ham United, there was also a 1-2 defeat at the crisping Groß-Club Manchester United. In the Champions League it also set a bankruptcy at the start. Chelsea lost 1: 3 at FC Bayern last Wednesday.
The “Blues”, which were able to win the club world championship in the USA for the first time in summer, are still in a finding phase in the early phase of the season. No wonder, there was another squad break in the XXL variant at the Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea invested almost 340 million euros this summer in new players. Conversely, the club sold and awarded a total of 15 professionals for more than 330 million euros. Chelsea didn’t get rid of two stars. They themselves had once been brought for expensive money. Now they are outside, but still consume millions of salary costs.
We are talking about Raheem Sterling and Axel Disasi. Coach Enzo Maresca banished the two professionals from the club’s squad. Most recently, they trained individually, sometimes in the evening, as was known from Sterling through an Instagram post. Shortly afterwards, the bizarre training time called the Pfa player union. According to the BBC, this was in exchange with Chelsea to ensure that the regulations of the FIFA World Association are observed and the players are really given the opportunity to train at an optimal level.
Meanwhile, Coach Maresca showed little sympathy with the actors he sorted out. “My father is 75 years old and has been a fisherman for 50 years. He works from two in the morning to ten in the morning,” he said on Friday with a view of the conditions for Sterling and Disasi. “It’s hard in life,” said Maresca. Unlike the way a player works.
At the Italian, at the latest at this moment it was finally clear, Sterling and Disasi have no chance. Chelsea had paid high sums for both players a few years ago. Overall, the duo cost more than 100 million euros in a transfer.