Chelsea star Raheem Sterling has stumped up £3.1million for a new family home in Cheshire.

The luxury five-acre pad, complete with its own wildlife pond, is in a leafy village that will provide a rural base for the England star, long-term girlfriend Paige Milian and their new𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 son Thiago.

The 22-year-old purchased the five-bedroom, 7,500 square-foot property before Christmas after previously renting a £3million mansion in the same county.

Chelsea star Raheem Sterling has stumped up £3.1million for a new family home

The luxury five-acre pad, complete with its own wildlife pond, is set in a Cheshire village

The 22-year-old purchased the five-bedroom, 7,500 square-foot property before Christmas

Sterling’s new pad provides a base for girlfriend Paige Milian and their new𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 son Thiago

The £180,000-a-week City winger’s new mansion neighbours several farms, with the stunning property boasting its own paddock and an additional one bedroom guest apartment over a triple garage.

Sterling’s new home is just under an hour’s drive from City’s Etihad Campus training base.

Paige, a 22-year-old model, had 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥hood sweetheart Sterling by her side as she gave 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 to Thiago in a Manchester hospital last week.

Sterling, who joined City for £49million from rivals Liverpool in 2015, also has a four-year-old daughter called Melody Rose from a previous relationship.

The City winger’s new mansion neighbours several farms and boasts its own paddock

As well as the luxury main building the property has a guest apartment above a triple garage

Sterling had been renting a property in nearby Wilmslow before completing the purchase

The new purchase comes after Sterling took his former home in Birkdale off the market before Christmas after failing to find a buyer.

The 22-year-old star put the four-bedroom mansion up for sale after moving from Liverpool to City last summer.

The four-bedroom property, in Birkdale, Merseyside, went on the market for £1.5m in August 2015 but the price was slashed to £1.2m – £50k less than he paid – in March of the same year.

It is unknown whether Sterling has been unable to find a buyer for his former property.

Sterling took his former Birkdale home off the market before Christmas after failing to sell it

The 22-year-old’s former property featured a cinema room adorned with his Liverpool shirts

The £1.25m mansion also featured a room decorated with Michael Jackson memorabilia