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• Sterling can be the predator who nonetheless allows his manager to play a fluid forward line EFL
  
  Chelsea got 76 league goals last season, Liverpool 94 and City 99 EFL
  
  The ideal third man to accompany selfless figures has to be more of a scorer than a supplier EFL
  
  Sterling’s move to Chelsea feels a coup in several respects EFL
  
  He may represent the first true Thomas Tuchel signing, giving an indication of the manager’s greater say in recruitment EFL
  
  Sterling leaves Man City after four Premier League titles EFL
  
  RecommendedPremier League and Championship clubs given green light to introduce safe standingSouthampton appoint Joe Shields as new head of senior recruitmentChelsea ‘to sacrifice Azpilicueta and Alonso for De Jong’Sterling can feel curiously underrated both as a finisher and a footballer EFL
  
  Pertinently for Tuchel, he has shown the ability to adapt to the instructions of another tactical micro-manager, timing and angling his runs to suit Guardiola’s demands EFL
  
  The classic Tuchel front three – in as much as there is one for a team who have scored too few goals – was his Champions League final trio: the profligate Timo Werner plus Kai Havertz and Mount, all-rounders who can excel at everything except putting the ball in the back of the net EFL
  
  Their top scorer in the Premier League was Mason Mount, whose tally of 11 put him tied for 14th place in the division; the year before, Jorginho led the way with Chelsea with seven, leaving him joint 44th EFL
  
  There is a song that will not be heard at the Etihad Stadium this season; not unless a corner of Chelsea supporters chorus it, anyway EFL
  
  "Raheem Sterling, he’s top of the league,” was part of the soundtrack of Manchester City’s surge to four Premier League titles in five seasons EFL
  
  If Lukaku was supposed to be Tuchel’s flagship buy, an uneasy relationship cast doubt on the German’s role in his arrival the increasingly cliched description of the Belgian last summer – the final piece in the jigsaw – looks more applicable to Sterling; at least as far as the forward line is concerned EFL
  
  Too few forwards – Lukaku, Werner, Hakim Ziyech, Christian Pulisic, Callum Hudson-Odoi – have really excelled under him EFL
  
  If Lukaku was supposed to be the finisher, he was left looking a one-dimensional one, unsuited to Chelsea’s possession game, a static passenger, his inability to get on the same wavelength as his team-mates summed up by his seven-touch display against Crystal Palace EFL
  
  Even Havertz feels a case of potential not fully realised EFL
  
  Perhaps crucially, he can be potent from a wider starting position, allowing Havertz to operate as a false nine EFL
  
  The numbers alone show the vacancy in attack EFL
  
  It was compounded by the nature of his sidekicks EFL
  
  At a price of £45million, less than half the amount they paid for Romelu Lukaku last summer and less than Fernando Torres cost 11 years ago, he looks a relative bargain for a club whose record signings, from Andriy Shevchenko to Kepa Arrizabalaga, can go wrong EFL
  
  It is a rare case, certainly since the early days of Roman Abramovich’s ownership, of raiding a major domestic rival EFL
  
  A willingness to change may indicate his frustration at their relative impotence EFL
  
  There are hints that Tuchel could look to amend his blueprint and play a variant of 4-4-2, though he has natural wing-backs and his finest remaining central defender, Thiago Silva, plays best in a trio EFL
  
  Yet, while Chelsea will acquire Sterling for around the sum City paid in 2016, this is about more than just securing value for money at the start of Todd Boehly’s regime EFL
  
  It raises the prospect that, like N’Golo Kante before him, Sterling could win successive Premier Leagues with different clubs, the second in Chelsea blue EFL
  
  And if it was scarcely the wittiest of chants, it felt one of the more meaningful EFL
  
  It was an assertion of superiority while highlighting one of the reasons for it EFL
  
  A capacity to take chances in ways that look scuffed or scruffy or simple can deflect attention from the sheer volume: only Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero have scored more goals for Pep Guardiola and he has outscored Chelsea’s leading marksman in each of the last five Premier League seasons EFL
  
  
  
  It was compounded by the nature of his sidekicks EFL
  
  Even Havertz feels a case of potential not fully realised EFL
  
  At a price of £45million, less than half the amount they paid for Romelu Lukaku last summer and less than Fernando Torres cost 11 years ago, he looks a relative bargain for a club whose record signings, from Andriy Shevchenko to Kepa Arrizabalaga, can go wrong EFL
  
  The numbers alone show the vacancy in attack EFL
  
  And if it was scarcely the wittiest of chants, it felt one of the more meaningful EFL
  
  Sterling can be the predator who nonetheless allows his manager to play a fluid forward line EFL
  
  The classic Tuchel front three – in as much as there is one for a team who have scored too few goals – was his Champions League final trio: the profligate Timo Werner plus Kai Havertz and Mount, all-rounders who can excel at everything except putting the ball in the back of the net EFL
  
  Chelsea got 76 league goals last season, Liverpool 94 and City 99 EFL
  
  A capacity to take chances in ways that look scuffed or scruffy or simple can deflect attention from the sheer volume: only Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero have scored more goals for Pep Guardiola and he has outscored Chelsea’s leading marksman in each of the last five Premier League seasons EFL
  
  If Lukaku was supposed to be the finisher, he was left looking a one-dimensional one, unsuited to Chelsea’s possession game, a static passenger, his inability to get on the same wavelength as his team-mates summed up by his seven-touch display against Crystal Palace EFL
  
  Pertinently for Tuchel, he has shown the ability to adapt to the instructions of another tactical micro-manager, timing and angling his runs to suit Guardiola’s demands EFL
  
  Their top scorer in the Premier League was Mason Mount, whose tally of 11 put him tied for 14th place in the division; the year before, Jorginho led the way with Chelsea with seven, leaving him joint 44th EFL
  
  Sterling leaves Man City after four Premier League titles EFL
  
  "Raheem Sterling, he’s top of the league,” was part of the soundtrack of Manchester City’s surge to four Premier League titles in five seasons EFL
  
  Yet, while Chelsea will acquire Sterling for around the sum City paid in 2016, this is about more than just securing value for money at the start of Todd Boehly’s regime EFL
  
  There are hints that Tuchel could look to amend his blueprint and play a variant of 4-4-2, though he has natural wing-backs and his finest remaining central defender, Thiago Silva, plays best in a trio EFL
  
  It raises the prospect that, like N’Golo Kante before him, Sterling could win successive Premier Leagues with different clubs, the second in Chelsea blue EFL
  
  Too few forwards – Lukaku, Werner, Hakim Ziyech, Christian Pulisic, Callum Hudson-Odoi – have really excelled under him EFL
  
  There is a song that will not be heard at the Etihad Stadium this season; not unless a corner of Chelsea supporters chorus it, anyway EFL
  
  It was an assertion of superiority while highlighting one of the reasons for it EFL
  
  A willingness to change may indicate his frustration at their relative impotence EFL
  
  Sterling’s move to Chelsea feels a coup in several respects EFL
  
  RecommendedPremier League and Championship clubs given green light to introduce safe standingSouthampton appoint Joe Shields as new head of senior recruitmentChelsea ‘to sacrifice Azpilicueta and Alonso for De Jong’Sterling can feel curiously underrated both as a finisher and a footballer EFL
  
  Perhaps crucially, he can be potent from a wider starting position, allowing Havertz to operate as a false nine EFL
  
  He may represent the first true Thomas Tuchel signing, giving an indication of the manager’s greater say in recruitment EFL
  
  If Lukaku was supposed to be Tuchel’s flagship buy, an uneasy relationship cast doubt on the German’s role in his arrival the increasingly cliched description of the Belgian last summer – the final piece in the jigsaw – looks more applicable to Sterling; at least as far as the forward line is concerned EFL
  
  It is a rare case, certainly since the early days of Roman Abramovich’s ownership, of raiding a major domestic rival EFL
  
  The ideal third man to accompany selfless figures has to be more of a scorer than a supplier EFL