kippaxblue76
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Re: £300 grand a week for terry..£40 mill bid.
Man City are to persist in their attempts to sign John Terry amid a growing sense within the club that the Chelsea captain is seriously considering his future and could be tempted by a salary that would almost double his current pay.
Mark Hughes, the City manager, has been encouraged by messages from associates of the player, the most prominent being one of Terry's international team-mates. There are several players inside the City dressing room who are on good terms with Terry, and Hughes has spent months putting together enough background information to be confident that a deal most Chelsea fans would like to believe was fantasy is, indeed, a possibility.
That manifested itself in the City executive chairman, Garry Cook, making a verbal bid of around £30m during a meeting with his Chelsea counterpart, Peter Kenyon, and following it up with a faxed offer stating they would also pull out of the tribunal to set the fee for Daniel Sturridge, the teenage striker who has just moved in the other direction.
The City hierarchy were braced for Chelsea's reaction, namely an aggressively worded statement that the offer was "completely rejected" and "[Chelsea] would like to make clear, and will not do so again, that John is not for sale".
Chelsea's reluctance to enter into negotiations is genuine and City are acutely aware there are obstacles to overcome given Terry's strong affinity to the London club and the way he has portrayed himself as "Mr Chelsea", openly declaring that he would never leave Stamford Bridge.
There is, however, also a sense that Chelsea's decision to publicise the Terry bid, when they could feasibly have kept it quiet, is the opening move of a PR operation to make it public knowledge that they are opposed to losing the player. The £30m offer was largely based on that being the amount Manchester United paid for Rio Ferdinand when they made him the world's most expensive defender in 2002. The difference is that Ferdinand was 23 at the time, whereas Terry is 28, but Chelsea are known to regard it as an embarrassingly low bid.
Just read this on the Guardian website so there could be some mileage in this yet.
Man City are to persist in their attempts to sign John Terry amid a growing sense within the club that the Chelsea captain is seriously considering his future and could be tempted by a salary that would almost double his current pay.
Mark Hughes, the City manager, has been encouraged by messages from associates of the player, the most prominent being one of Terry's international team-mates. There are several players inside the City dressing room who are on good terms with Terry, and Hughes has spent months putting together enough background information to be confident that a deal most Chelsea fans would like to believe was fantasy is, indeed, a possibility.
That manifested itself in the City executive chairman, Garry Cook, making a verbal bid of around £30m during a meeting with his Chelsea counterpart, Peter Kenyon, and following it up with a faxed offer stating they would also pull out of the tribunal to set the fee for Daniel Sturridge, the teenage striker who has just moved in the other direction.
The City hierarchy were braced for Chelsea's reaction, namely an aggressively worded statement that the offer was "completely rejected" and "[Chelsea] would like to make clear, and will not do so again, that John is not for sale".
Chelsea's reluctance to enter into negotiations is genuine and City are acutely aware there are obstacles to overcome given Terry's strong affinity to the London club and the way he has portrayed himself as "Mr Chelsea", openly declaring that he would never leave Stamford Bridge.
There is, however, also a sense that Chelsea's decision to publicise the Terry bid, when they could feasibly have kept it quiet, is the opening move of a PR operation to make it public knowledge that they are opposed to losing the player. The £30m offer was largely based on that being the amount Manchester United paid for Rio Ferdinand when they made him the world's most expensive defender in 2002. The difference is that Ferdinand was 23 at the time, whereas Terry is 28, but Chelsea are known to regard it as an embarrassingly low bid.
Just read this on the Guardian website so there could be some mileage in this yet.