Gary Staker has left Chelsea.
The Daily Mail says Chelsea's longest serving member of the back-room staff, player liaison officer Staker, has left the club after his position was made redundant.
The veteran ally of numerous Chelsea managers including Gianluca Vialli, Claudio Ranieri and Jose Mourinho had considered legal action after the club suggested a change of role earlier in the summer.
But he has finally accepted a redundancy package and departed last Friday.
Chelsea are understood to have given Staker a bonus on top of the notice period in his contract in order to go quietly, after he rejected their offer of a part-time role looking after the club's ambassadors on match days at Stamford Bridge.