🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John Terry

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John Terry is ready to accept a one-year contract at Chelsea if it means prolonging his playing career at Stamford Bridge #CFC (Mail)

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Terry wanted a two-year deal, but was told Chelsea policy for players over the age of 30 is to offer only 12 months #CFC (Mail)

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Terry has accepted this [one year policy for over 30] and is hoping to start his 17th season as a professional with #CFC in August (Mail)

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Terry is already in line to be the club’s player of the year. It is even possible Terry will be PFA player of the year #CFC (Mail)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2551871/Terry-boost-Chelsea-inspirational-skipper-set-accept-one-year-deal.html

hopefully true. lamps and maybe even Ashley hopefully to follow...

[The Skipper 20,609]

Would give him a 2 year contract tbh. He still has a lot to give us next season, and the season after his experience will be vital too.

Reduced wages of course though.

[bababoom 4,478]

This time last year Terry was either injured or on the bench, he was clearly past his best... or so we thought.

It's funny how much can change in a year.

[LAB 1,030]

Fantastic JT, please give us more of this. The captain is back for good!

[The_Flash 1,144]

'New' Daily Mail News on Terry

"...Terry boost for Chelsea as inspirational skipper is set to accept one-year deal..."

John Terry is ready to accept a one-year contract at Chelsea if it means prolonging his playing career at Stamford Bridge.

The club captain, showing some of the best form of his career, comes to the end of his current five-year, £150,000-a-week deal in June.

Terry, 33, had wanted a two-year deal, but was told Chelsea policy for players over the age of 30 is to offer only 12 months. He has accepted this and is hoping to start his 17th season as a professional with Chelsea in August.

The centre back, the last Chelsea player to establish himself in the first team having come through the academy, is already in line to be the clubs player of the year. It is even possible Terry will be PFA player of the year. Voting for the award takes place next month.

He was outstanding in the 1-0 victory at Manchester City on Monday and has played every minute of all 24 Barclays Premier League fixtures under Jose Mourinho. The manager has assured Terry his contract will be taken care of by the summer, but the defender wants the situation resolved before then.

Terrys appetite to continue at Chelsea can only have been strengthened by the victory at the Etihad, which highlighted Mourinhos tactical genius and unmatched attention to detail.

For two days solid, he walked and talked his team through his plans for City. These are the games Mourinho craves, the special occasions with a cup-tie feel.

Chelseas players, along with those he left behind at Porto, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, will tell you that he is at his best in these moments. Even when Mourinho took his squad into the media auditorium to run them through some video grabs, the bit every player hates, they listened intently.

They wanted to nick a result at City, just as they had when they beat Manuel Pellegrinis team 2-1 at Stamford Bridge. Instead it was a performance of shock and awe, laced with enormous belief. The 1-0 scoreline did not do it justice.

Much of Mourinhos work is bluff but no-one can dispute his success. Can you imagine David Moyes pulling a stunt such as passing on the pre-match team talk to a masseur? Of course not. But that is what Mourinho did, handing over responsibilities to Billy McCulloch in the minutes before kick-off.

Nothing would give the Chelsea manager greater pleasure than to win a third league title at Stamford Bridge but victory against a City team scoring goals for fun - and with 11 straight wins at home - probably just makes it into his top 10 all-time results.

Mourinhos capacity to shock, as he did with Porto when Costinhas added-time goal knocked Manchester United out of the Champions League in 2004, is one of his strengths.

Solid: Mourinho's Chelsea team look more powerful with new signing Nemanja Matic (above) in midfield

A few months later Mourinho engineered the destruction of Monaco in the final when Porto ran out 3-0 winners in Gelsenkirchen.

As Mourinho closed in on his second European Cup in 2010, Dutch ace Wesley Sneijder gave the performance of his career to help Inter win 1-0 on the managers return to Stamford Bridge.

Then, in the final at the Bernabeu, Louis van Gaal was lured into Mourinhos trap by focusing Bayern Munichs energies on nullifying Samuel Etoo. The striker agreed to sacrifice himself and his forward partner Diego Milito scored twice to win Inter the trophy.

Mourinho trusts his methods and repeats training-ground drills until players match his demands. Those exercises were not a lot of fun for Chelsea this week, but the manager knew they were necessary before facing a team with a goalscoring record at home that now reads: 4, 2, 4, 3, 7, 6, 3, 6, 2, 1, 4 and 0.

Inspired: Mourinho claimed Chelsea masseur Billy McCulloch (left) gave the team talk ahead of the City match

We prepared very well, said Nemanja Matic, who got to grips with the drifting runs of David Silva in the first half.

The coach showed us some videos of City and of course they showed their quality but also their mistakes. The preparation was very good and of big quality.

On Saturday, more than 48 hours before kick-off, Mourinhos players couldnt work out his team or the system he was likely to employ.

Mourinho: The club masseur delivered pep talk for Man City win

Willian, though, looked certain to be out, with Ramires taking his place on the right. Either Mourinho changed his mind or he only made a decision when he called his team together at their Manchester hotel at noon on Monday.

We have more confidence now because it is not easy to play Manchester City, added Matic. We can prepare for any team.

With Mourinho in charge, Chelsea have the measure of most of them.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Would give him a 2 year contract tbh. He still has a lot to give us next season, and the season after his experience will be vital too.

Reduced wages of course though.

Very much agree with this. He is still our best defencer and i can't see his decline being too severe to not warant a two year deal. And even if it did, his presence in the dressing room is more than just his footballing ability.

And yeah, don't think he can have the match highest earner clause anymore, but compared to what we pay others he is still entitled to 100k a week

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Terry boost for Chelsea as inspirational skipper is set to accept one-year deal

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2551871/Terry-boost-Chelsea-inspirational-skipper-set-accept-one-year-deal.html

[Mr_President 404]

Hope his injury doesn't turn out to be serious and he's back soon. His partnership with GC will help us drive towards the title.

[manpe 10,861]

It would be a travesty if JT didn't retire with us. It was wrong enough seeing Beckham retiring at PSG hugging random people he barely knew in front of fans who barely cared, it would be even wronger if JT had to retire elsewhere. He needs a proper "these are my last minutes" moment at Stamford Bridge. Anybody who entertains the thought of letting JT go to "make room for wages" is in my estimation a fuckwit and has no sense of respect or loyalty.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

It would be a travesty if JT didn't retire with us. It was wrong enough seeing Beckham retiring at PSG hugging random people he barely knew in front of fans who barely cared, it would be even wronger if JT had to retire elsewhere. He needs a proper "these are my last minutes" moment at Stamford Bridge. Anybody who entertains the thought of letting JT go to "make room for wages" is in my estimation a fuckwit and has no sense of respect or loyalty.

Agreed.

It would be "wronger" than your grammar!

[manpe 10,861]

Agreed.

It would be "wronger" than your grammar!

[hjperdeath 2,226]

Wrote something on Terry and England a day or so back - http://www.sportskeeda.com/2014/02/08/john-terry-the-hero-england-needs-but-not-the-one-it-deserves/

First off, sincere apologies to the Batman fandom out there, if I have in any way hurt your sentimental feelings by producing an alternate version of a historic quote to be used as a title for this article.

John George Terry, the captain of Chelsea Football Club. It was just last season when the defender was written off after suffering a series of injuries which saw him rarely featuring in Rafael Benitez’s plans. With the ‘Special One’ making an emotional return back to the SW6, the former English captain is a player who has poetically undergone resurrection. Resurrection in the sense that despite being one of the oldest players in the squad, he has put on the arm-band for almost every game in the League.

Now I’m not going to grab a few words, mix them around in a bag and carefully place them in front of you to defend the person in question. At the end of the day, your opinion will always be different than mine, and while there can always be situations, scenarios or opportunities to change them, this isn’t one. I do support Chelsea, if that wasn’t obvious yet, and most of the people about to read this will have a different opinion about John Terry. In the same way, I and a few others would have a different opinion about Ryan Giggs which would be opposite to what a Manchester United supporter might see. I could go on for 40 days and 40 nights if needed to defend him, but this isn’t going to be a situation in which I will.

As Jose Mourinho raised his clenched fist and a distraught Pellegrini slowly appeared into the picture, many would agree to the fact that that night on the lush green grass of the Etihad, the noisy Mancunians witnessed a tactical masterclass. A resolute Chelsea opened up the title race, when not many expected them to. Eden Hazard was the name on the lips, but Gary Cahill alongside his captain had one of the best games of his Chelsea career so far. Gazza, as he is affectionately called by the Chelsea fans, has revolutionised the way he has stepped up on the pitch, building a solid partnership with Terry beside him. Gary presses and pushes back at oncoming defenders with the kind of bravery that’s seen him make 47 blocks since 2012, 21 more than any other Chelsea defender, while Terry uses the lack of pace to his advantage and positions himself well to pick up second balls.

The Cahill and Terry partnership is the best in form combination in the Premier League right now and arguably one of the best in Europe. Full stop. They have picked themselves up after being hammered by Stoke and Sunderland as Jose seems to have finally worked his magic that saw him build a formidable defense around Terry and Carvalho during his first stint. Gary Cahill, Phil Jagielka, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling were the ones to be named in the England squad the last time the country played an international game. Statistically, John Terry is head and shoulders above all of them and its not hard to figure that out.

I’m a self confessed Jagielka fan. There’s a subtle aura around him that makes you respect him for what he has achieved as an individual statistically. He’s been highly unlucky to have faced competition with Rio and Terry when it comes to national duty. But if England intend to take their strongest players to Brazil, then they need a solid partnership at the back. England’s midfield problems are well known, but if Roy Hodgson puts an inform partnership at the heart of defense, then resolving problems with John Terry would be a no-brainer. At the end of the day the fans want to see a good showing at Brazil even if their chances of winning the World Cup are close to none.

Salomon Kalou had a lot to say about John Terry when asked about the England conundrum. ‘I think that he is a great leader. If you (England) want to go to this type of competition you have to take people that will bring a positive aspect to the team and I think that JT can bring that to the England squad. “ Surprisingly this is coming from an Ivorian football player in support of a man who in mainstream media is seen as a vile human being who dishes out racial abuse on a regular basis. John Terry has every right to feel untenable after being proved innocent in the court of law and only to be put down by the FA whose track record doesn’t exactly scream out justice.

England at this point need a player who can be a leader, organizer and a wall at the back. John Terry gives them exactly that. The idea among the supporters however is that the country needs to move on. Pass on the mantle to the next generation and that I agree with. However the idea of “You can’t win anything with kids” is somewhat utopian. I really don’t want to be the new Indian Alan Hansen, but Terry provides invaluable experience. This experience coupled with England’s youthful attack could reap benefits in the long run.

Another common belief is that Terry will have a problem with the rest of the team, which is far from the truth. It’s been well accounted that Terry is close friends with the likes of Rooney, Hart, Gerrard and other stalwarts involved in the England setup. The player don’t feed off the same negativity about a player as a fan would after reading the morning newspaper.

The onus is on Roy Hodsgon. John Terry has always seen national duty as something to be proud of and if the matter was to be thrown across the room , I don’t see Terry refusing the opportunity to take part in what would be his last World Cup. At this point of time, Hodgson needs to make a decision about how he want’s Brazil 2014 to pan out. It’s not hard to see that England needs someone like John Terry. But after all that has happened, you don’t need a doctorate in human science to see that the country doesn’t deserve him.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Should be no doubt about him getting a contract extension now. He's a rock at the heart of that defence and the step-down to his back-ups is too great not to cost us points in tough games. Hopefully he's fit again soon because we miss him badly.

His rehabilitation is complete - pay the man.

[Jase 43,479]

Roy Hodgson to reveal his decision on whether to give Chelsea's John Terry a recall to the England squad

[Jase 43,479]

Roy Hodgson to reveal his decision on whether to give Chelsea's John Terry a recall to the England squad

John Terry will not go to World Cup, says England manager Roy Hodgson

[Special Juan 28,141]

Good.

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[Ollie 4,400]

Shame, woulda loved to see JT partner Cahill in a world cup.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

England's loss

[Joe Cool 388]

Good for him, I'd rather not see him have to put up with the FA's bollocks.