John Terry..Put Up Or Shut Up

Drifter

Chelsea are to call John Terry’s bluff by telling him to put up or shut up over his highly public flirtation with Manchester City. The club will reject a third, £30m-plus bid for their captain this week and tell Terry that they have no intention of matching City’s offer to double his current wage to £250,000 a week.

While Roman Abramovich is prepared to make Terry the best-paid player at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea’s owner will not go significantly beyond the £150,000-a-week salary granted to Frank Lampard last summer. Should Terry decide to place Sheikh Mansour’s petrobillions ahead of his oft-stated devotion to Chelsea, the London club will tell Terry to hand in a formal transfer request and make it clear that the player is the driving force behind a move.

For his part, Terry has asked football dealmaker Chris Nathaniel to help negotiate with City. Nathaniel already represents Robinho, the club’s current best-paid player, and Micah Richards. He has previously secured Terry a lucrative book deal, works extensively with his England teammate Rio Ferdinand, and last season fronted a Nigerian takeover bid for Newcastle United.

City remain confident that Terry will be their player before the new Premier League season begins. The England captain spent part of a recent holiday in Dubai with City manager Mark Hughes, and Hughes believes that Terry is unhappy with Chelsea’s failure to add top-class players to their squad and a lack of consultation over Carlo Ancelotti’s appointment.


When City made their first unsuccessful bid for Terry last January, the player’s agent, Aaron Lincoln, was negotiating the transfer of Wayne Bridge to Eastlands. During that period, Terry had expressed his discontent with then-Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari’s training methods and a message was sent to City that the defender “wanted out”.

Hughes is in the market for two centre-backs and has calculated that Terry can reinforce his defence, providing leadership to what has been an often fragile team, while satisfying his employer’s desire for a star signing. It is understood that Friday’s decision to withdraw an offer for Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o was partially motivated by City’s belief that Terry will go through with his exit from Chelsea.

The London club believe Terry is using City’s overtures to improve his financial position and status at Stamford Bridge, and that the 29-year-old has no serious interest in changing his place of work.

It would certainly be politically difficult for Terry to be seen as the instigator of a move away from a club with whom he has fashioned a public image of slavish loyalty. Talking in February about City’s initial bid for him, Terry said: “Chelsea told me what had happened as a courtesy. I was very happy with their reaction, as mine would have been the same. I have always said that I want to end my career at the club which I love and we all see no reason why that cannot happen.”

Terry has had significant issues with injury in recent seasons and is seen by many in the game as a declining force, but Chelsea continue to insist that he is “not for sale at any price”. The club is, however, mindful of dealings with Terry over his last contract renewal in 2007.

During those negotiations, Terry asked for a 10-year contract that included a clause that would guarantee him being the club’s best-paid player for the duration of the deal. The defender also wanted an option to become Chelsea’s manager when he retired from playing.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle6689692.ece

Makki

What a fucking prick

Alex

VidaRed

the audacity of the twat...they should demand 40m from citeh because they might get it.

Ivor Ballokov

If that is true then holy fuck, he has no pace now, imagine what he'll be like as a 37 year old and he still wants to be the highest earner

The whole thing is ridiculous actually.

Devil_forever

Thank God for Vidic.

Addis

He think's he's the world's finest defender, but there are many ahead of him who get paid a lot less.

What a greedy twat, delusions of grandeur.

x42bn6

Big Man needs Big Contract. What else can you say?

He's a Grade A prat, though. Holding his own club to ransom.

RedKaos

What a twat..why not ask for The Maldives as part of the contract clause.

duffer

What highly public flirtation would that be then? He's said fuck all about wanting a move, be it to City or anywhere. In fact the only statement he's made is this:
"Chelsea told me what had happened as a courtesy. I was very happy with their reaction, as mine would have been the same. I have always said that I want to end my career at the club which I love and we all see no reason why that cannot happen".

Walrus

That must be bullshit, surely.

But anyway, this pretty much sums up one of the big problems with Chelski - too many back seat drivers. Too many cooks, not enough broth - etc etc.
Basically, it seems like half their squad feels that they need to be consulted over every single appointment and signing that goes on, particularly as far as the managers are concerned.
If bigman Terry does decide to go to city then we can deduce a few things though;
1) He is a greedy sod with no loyalty.
2) Chelsea/Abramovich are sick of the power struggle with the players and want to start playing hardball.
3) City's arab money can occassionally attract a good player.
4) Even with all the money in the world, he is still a fucking crybaby.

NextSeason

The 'Big Man' thing is old and bollocks.

People need to stop saying it.

rednev

'highly public flirtation with Manchester City'

Err, what?

As far as I'm aware, Terry's kept quiet all summer. How that can be likened to highly public flirtation, I'll never know.

slaparse

To be fair he hasn't gone on like tevez but at the end of the day he's just another overpayed twat. And there's plenty of them about.

Justin

It's a secret, underground affair. Big Man cheated on his wife a dozen times, he's got skills with this kind of thing.

Team Brian GB

Of course you expect me not to, but I don't buy any of this whatsoever.

mjs020294

Parity clauses are pretty common for top players. United have had several players with similar clauses over the years. The length of the contract is the main difference here.

Canuckred64

A couple of the Sunday papers are saying that Terry has asked for the chance to hear what Manchester City want to offer him.

Would love to see Terry go to city as Chelsea would lose his leadership, but can't see this happening. More likely that Terry is just looking for a pay raise.

Bearded but no genius

He doesn't understand why Abramovich hasn't given him the funds to buy new players this summer.

He's the manager of the club after all.

This childishness first with Mourinho, then Grant, then Scolari, then Hiddink, now Ancellotti MUST end now or he will simply leave Stamford Bridge and take Chelsea Football Club with him.

They don't call him "Mr. Chelsea" for nothing.

lysglimt

He wanted the Shetlands and the outer Hebrides more

Bearded but no genius

What with Makelele claiming Terry basically forced Mourinho out because he dared question his Bigness - arguably signaling the beginning of all your problems - and now this, what will you think of Mr. Penaldee™ if England's Lion® And Hero Of Moscow™ does in fact eff off to City for a Big Man™'s Big Wage Increase, and becomes Mr. Massive™?

cesc's_mullet

What did he do to Hiddink?

You'd think he'd show some due respect to the Coach that saved their season.

Crustanoid

They should sell him to make an example of him. Wanker is two years into a contract, but knows his club are an eternal source of money, and will keep coming back for more. What a joke of as club-they gave fat frank a five year contract at the age of 30, worth 160k, when its likely by then he wont even get into the first XI

kouroux

Must be bullshit, I understand that Terry is a bit thick but he can't be that thick

BAMSOLA

Funny how we're so quick to believe this about a rival player. All sounds like bollock to me.

kps88

I don't think that 10 year contract with the clause can be true. It just can't.

Having said that, if I were Chelsea, I would bleed City dry.

Sylar

Speculation, no quotes, etc.

And yeah, I was thinking what Bamsola said. If this was about our players, we would all dismiss it as paper bollocks. Nothing has been said so far.

duffer

Nothing. Just the same old Terry haters making up shit.

a_devil_inside

in the BBC Gossip column it mentions Chelsea would want to replace the handballing twat if he did go with another handballing twat Steven Taylor

Eyepopper

Mr. Chelsea

Walrus

Sparky doesnt seem to want to overpay too much on players, he is no Perez.

Unfortunately for him, he needs to realise that when his club has very publically been taken over by billionaires, he wont have much choice than to overpay for any transfer target that he wants.

Bearded but no genius

No, you're missing the point.

The childishness of Abramovich in not recognising Terry's true potential and making Terry Player/Manager/Co-Owner long ago.

How he could not see Johnny's true potential is staggering.

Bearded but no genius

Whooooooosh! It was a pisstake about Terry seemingly thinking he's the real manager of the club.

And I notice your lot don't want to answer my question above.

What if it turns out this is true and Mr. Big leaves?

Is he still your big time biggest hero of all?

Mr. Chelsea, "the heart and soul of Chelsea football club"?

Is he the greatest Blue-Bleeding Legend Of Everestestest?

Or were we right?

What about Makelele?

Is he lying about Mourinho and Terry forcing him out because he rightly questioned Terry's fitness?

Is Makelele part of the Evil Anti-Terry H8TR Conspiracy?

Where are these City rumours coming from?

The Evil Terry-Hating Press?

duffer

Anyway, i'm off to work. if I see Terry on SKy sports news holding a City shirt when I get back, you may not see me for a while.

Tibs

This thread would improve if a pic of Terry the Woman was posted

karan316

By Mirror journalist, Brian Reade -

Which brings me to Chelsea fans, who are currently panicking over John Terry.

Will he go to Manchester City if the club don't show enough "loyalty" by giving him a new contract worth £155,000 a week?

And if City come back in with a £35million offer, and they take it, what will outsiders think when Chelsea are unable to hold on to their backbone and talisman?

Well, taking a wild stab, I guess they'll think "Good on you." Terry is reportedly miffed that Roman Abramovich wasn't there in person to give him a rubdown with his cheque book when he turned up for training on Thursday.

With a bit of luck, the Russian was at home dictating the following letter to his "confused" captain: "Your Opta stats for the past three seasons say we've won 64 per cent of our games with you, but 68 per cent without you, and taken more points per game (2.32 compared to 2.16) when you weren't on the pitch.

Plus we've only lost one of the 28 games you've missed.

"Over that same period you've averaged 28 Premier League games and one Premier League goal per season. You're getting booked more and starting to look like an oil tanker doing a threepoint turn in Vladivostok harbour when you're up against pace.

"I'm wondering how much of our excellent defensive record is down to Petr Cech behind you, Michael Essien in front of you and the other three defenders alongside you?

"You're 29 this year. Your back's gone. You cost £6.5m in wages. And you're a centrehalf. I'll tell you what. I'll make Frankie captain, let Alex take your place, tell Carvalho he's staying, push Mancienne through the ranks and bite City's hands off for £35m. Go and live your dream with the Eastlands Arabs, my son."

Which would be one small step for Man City, but one giant leap for mankind.

Cant say I disagree with a word in there.

Decotron

If he did go who do you lot think they would buy?

Lescott might be a good shout as I think they will defo go for an English player. Dont rate Mancienne that highly either, not as good as Evans and certainly not capable of having a similar impact.