John Terry [Merged]

[waterfootblues]

IMO
Terry wants to talk to City and chelsea have said no way.
Chelsea have said to Terry to speak about how much he wants to stay at chelsea and Terry is saying no, I want to talk to City. You owe me this for all the loyalty I have have shown in the past. Terry has been at Chelsea since he was 14 and has given them his all.
Chelsea are not investing in the team and City will invest as much as is needed.
Its chelsea that will not reward his loyalty and have disrespected Terry.
Terry is not trying to get more money out of chelsea.
He wants to join City with the blessing of Chelsea as a thank you for everything he has done for the ungrateful b*stards.
Chelsea are forcing him into a corner.

 

[Irwell]

To me this all seems like the mark of a true professional. Even the most dedicated people want change after years in the same place and who could blame Terry if he was considering a change? One thing everyone complains about is players who make a lot of noise in public to push for a transfer. Well Terry is keeping his mouth shut and honouring his contract until this is resolved one way or the other and as far as I'm concerned you can't have anything but respect for him for that.

 

[Manci7y]

Why do some think that when Hughes says ned is going nowhere, he isn't going, yet when ancelotti say terry isn't going people still think we will sign him?

Because the two situations are completely different.

you think???

What happens if we bring in terry and go for lescott, do u really think there's a place for ned???
Because unless you think he is happy to sit on the bench there is only one outcome for me.

Added to the fact that the situations are the same, neither player has commented and both clubs have denied they are leaving. Where do you see the
y are different?

 

[oafc dave]

Suddenly the paper are on City favour again!? I'm sick of this. JT need to speak. I think the Chelsea USA tour end on Monday and i hope JT better speak when he return to England next week.

Any news on itk?

 

[bobrivers]

According to a very reliable source John Terry is currently training with Chelsea squad in Dallas.

 

[lc-mcfc]

Suddenly the paper are on City favour again!? I'm sick of this. JT need to speak. I think the Chelsea USA tour end on Monday and i hope JT better speak when he return to England next week.

Any news on itk?

Why does everyone want JT to speak?

He speaks, he stays.

The more he keeps quiet, the more he is likely to join us.

 

[M.C.F.C.O.K]

I dont want Terry, 100% want Lesscot but definitly dont want to lose Nedum, id be happy with Toure to

Facepalm with a twist,

 

[Matt Diablo]

Kolo Toure is first in triple City bid - The Times Duncan Castles

MANCHESTER CITY have agreed personal terms with Arsenal defender Kolo Toure as the Premier League’s most affluent football club continue their assault on the English transfer market. City expect to sign Toure, Joleon Lescott and John Terry by the end of August for combined fees of around £100m.

Occasional Arsenal captain Toure has been seduced by City’s standard double-your-money offer and following a season in which he was not consistently Arsene Wenger’s first choice should be sold for around £15m. The Arab-financed club have offered Everton £20m plus England under-21 international Nedum Onuoha for Lescott, who has been attracted by the prospect of starting in his preferred central defensive position.

The assault on Terry, however, has proved the most complicated with Chelsea, acting on orders from owner Roman Abramovich, repeatedly stating he is not for sale at any price.

Indeed, Carlo Ancelotti, the Chelsea coach, made the strongest statement yet on Terry when he promised his captain would remain at Chelsea and ignore the City overtures. “For sure Terry will stay in Chelsea, we have never had a problem,” Ancelotti said. “We have to wait. You have to have trust in me.”

City continue to receive strong encouragement that Terry wants the £250,000 weekly wage on offer in Manchester and are preparing to push the transfer fee beyond £40m to secure him. They are also boosted by Terry’s sustained public silence on the matter, conscious that the player’s future will remain unresolved at least until he has stated his intention to continue his career at Stamford Bridge or to move north to Eastlands.

It is understood the 28-year-old has been disappointed with the club’s failure to make top-tier reinforcements and that Abramovich did not consult him over Carlo Ancelotti’s appointment as manager. He has also complained of Chelsea’s lassitude in contacting him after City’s initial summer offer, and over having to wait a week for a meeting with Abramovich after the second.

Though Terry appears to face a difficult decision over his future, Hughes and his coaching staff remain confident he will manage to extricate himself from Chelsea — even if he is forced into requesting a transfer.

 

[Matt Diablo]

TERRY IN TURMOIL -Daily Star

26th July 2009
By Paul Hetherington
JOHN Terry has admitted to close friends that he is in “two minds” about staying at Chelsea or moving to Manchester City. The England captain’s heart is telling him to remain at Stamford Bridge, where he is regarded as Mr Chelsea. But there is no doubt that the riches on offer at City, through being owned by the Abu Dhabi United Group, have made Terry, 28, question his future. City have had a bid of £30million rejected by Chelsea, who insist Terry is not for sale. But the Chelsea skipper is aware that he could almost double his £135,000-a-week wage by moving to cash-rich City. His pay packet at The Bridge doesn’t even make him Chelsea’s highest-paid player as Frank Lampard – one of the friends Terry has been confiding in on his future – and Michael Ballack are being paid £151,000 and £139,000-a-week respectively. A gesture to increase Terry’s pay to at least the Lampard’s level is likely – and could be enough to persuade him to stay. That seems the most likely outcome. But until Terry makes a public statement on his future, doubts about where he will be playing this season – either in royal or light blue – will persist.

 

[1894]

The Times article is interesting, but nothing new in The Star.