Chelsea winger Raheem Sterling has been told by former Premier League striker Troy Deeney that he should have left Stamford Bridge when he had the chance.<\/p>\n
Axel Disasi and Sterling have not been in the Chelsea<\/a> squads this season after failing to secure moves away from the Premier League club in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n When asked about the pair training away from the rest of the team, Maresca told a press conference<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve been in Raheem\u2019s and Axel\u2019s situation as a player.<\/p>\n \u201cFor sure, I know it is not the best feeling for a player. For different reasons, the situation is the situation at the moment, but I know the club is giving them the situation to work in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked if the situation is mentally challenging for the duo, the Chelsea boss added: \u201cMy father is 75 years old and for 50 years he\u2019s been a fisherman, working from two o\u2019clock in the morning till 10 o\u2019clock in the morning.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a hard life \u2013 not the way a player works.\u201d<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Top Liverpool target \u2018dead set\u2019 on Anfield transfer as Chelsea \u2018pretty much walk away\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n And former Watford striker Deeney is frustrated at Sterling\u2019s situation at Chelsea but insists the player, who was on loan at Arsenal last season, only has himself to blame.<\/p>\n Deeney told talkSPORT<\/a>: \u201cMy only frustration and concern at this whole thing is when we start feeling sorry for players who\u2019ve just had the opportunity to leave. You\u2019ve just had an opportunity to leave. Now he can\u2019t complain.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you make those parameters of wanting to stay in London, wanting the pay to be really high and the full package, or at least 75% of it, I think you just go into a position where you can\u2019t now complain that it hasn\u2019t fulfilled itself.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think this is going to happen, because Maresca has got off to a good start, but he (Sterling) could go, \u2018well I could probably outlast you\u2026I could outlast you,\u2019 and if Maresca goes on an eight-game losing streak and Chelsea chop him, then who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n MORE CHELSEA COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Sterling has been linked to a reunion with former Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers at Celtic but Football Insider journalist Pete O\u2019Rourke thinks it\u2019s a \u201cbizarre link\u201d.<\/p>\n O\u2019Rourke told Football Insider<\/a>: \u201cYeah, it\u2019s a bizarre link, obviously it may come from the past association between Brendan Rodgers and\u00a0Raheem Sterling\u00a0when they both worked together at Liverpool.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously\u00a0Celtic\u00a0had their struggles in the transfer market in this summer window not making as many signings as maybe the club\u2019s fans wanted.<\/p>\n \u201cRaheem Sterling is cast into the shadows at Chelsea right now training with the kids and not even part of the first-team squad.<\/p>\n \u201cHe did have maybe options to leave in the summer window but he decided not to take them and decided to remain at Chelsea.\u201d<\/p>\n
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