Sporting director Stewart to leave Chelsea

[Getty Images]Chelsea sporting director Laurence Stewart is set to leave the club by mutual consent in the near future.The 40-year-old leaves on excellent terms to pursue other opportunities in a move that is internally seen as related to the "tweak of the (recruitment) model" that influential co-owner Behdad Eghbali spoke about at the end of last season.Stewart has spent nearly four years at Chelsea under the BlueCo ownership, but many of his responsibilities will be absorbed into the roles of