John Terry [Merged]

[mancityscot]

Chelsea skipper lays it on line to Roman Abramovich

JOHN TERRY demanded the chance to speak to Manchester City during two hours of crisis talks with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich yesterday.

Terry stopped short of handing in an official transfer request but the central defender is determined to speak with City officials over the proposed move.

The move comes 48 hours before Carlos Tevez flies in to Eastlands for a medical to seal his £25million switch.

Abramovich is desperate to keep Terry but the England captain wants his future resolved before Chelsea leave for their pre-season tour of America on Thursday.

The pair met after Terry and the rest of the first- team squad took part in an event to support Chelsea's charity partner for the season, Right to Play.

After spending the afternoon at Wentworth, Terry slipped away to talk with the Russian billionaire in a meeting that lasted more than two hours.

Chelsea are reluctant to let Terry leave for City, even for an astonishing £50m. But the defender is determined to hear what they have to offer.

City chief Mark Hughes is prepared to fly back from the club's pre- season training camp in Germany to convince the England captain his future is at Eastlands.

Terry, 28, will be offered £280,000 a week plus a £5m signing-on fee if Chelsea give them permission to talk.

There are already plans at City of setting up a John Terry Foundation, similar to the project proposed by the club during their pursuit of Kaka in January.

City's new partnership with Umbro, who also hold a lucrative contract with Terry, is seen as crucial to the deal.

Although the defender has told friends it would be a huge wrench to leave Chelsea, he fears they have regressed after the big-spending era under Jose Mourinho.

He is also aware of talk at Stamford Bridge about the proposed transfer fee from City being used to complete the signing of Alexandre Pato from AC Milan for a similar fee.

Milan are in talks with Sevilla over the arrival of Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano and will let Pato leave for Chelsea if they can conclude negotiations with the Spanish club.
Arrivals

Terry has become increasingly disillusioned at Blues and is concerned that they will not be able to challenge Manchester United's domestic dominance next season.

Although Chelsea spent £18m signing Yuri Zhirkov, the only other arrivals are Middlesbrough keeper Ross Turnbull and Manchester City striker Daniel Sturridge.

Terry had been convinced after talks with Abramovich before the FA Cup final victory in May that David Villa and Franck Ribery were the club's two top targets but they have admitted defeat in their pursuit of both.

City are the up- and-coming team in English football with big bucks to realise the ambitions of super-rich owner Sheikh Mansour.

Terry believes City are just two players short of competing with Arsenal for a Champions League place.

I'm so fucking happy

 

[keemcfc]

Chelsea skipper lays it on line to Roman Abramovich

JOHN TERRY demanded the chance to speak to Manchester City during two hours of crisis talks with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich yesterday.

Terry stopped short of handing in an official transfer request but the central defender is determined to speak with City officials over the proposed move.

The move comes 48 hours before Carlos Tevez flies in to Eastlands for a medical to seal his £25million switch.

Abramovich is desperate to keep Terry but the England captain wants his future resolved before Chelsea leave for their pre-season tour of America on Thursday.

The pair met after Terry and the rest of the first- team squad took part in an event to support Chelsea's charity partner for the season, Right to Play.

After spending the afternoon at Wentworth, Terry slipped away to talk with the Russian billionaire in a meeting that lasted more than two hours.

Chelsea are reluctant to let Terry leave for City, even for an astonishing £50m. But the defender is determined to hear what they have to offer.

City chief Mark Hughes is prepared to fly back from the club's pre- season training camp in Germany to convince the England captain his future is at Eastlands.

Terry, 28, will be offered £280,000 a week plus a £5m signing-on fee if Chelsea give them permission to talk.

There are already plans at City of setting up a John Terry Foundation, similar to the project proposed by the club during their pursuit of Kaka in January.

City's new partnership with Umbro, who also hold a lucrative contract with Terry, is seen as crucial to the deal.

Although the defender has told friends it would be a huge wrench to leave Chelsea, he fears they have regressed after the big-spending era under Jose Mourinho.

He is also aware of talk at Stamford Bridge about the proposed transfer fee from City being used to complete the signing of Alexandre Pato from AC Milan for a similar fee.

Milan are in talks with Sevilla over the arrival of Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano and will let Pato leave for Chelsea if they can conclude negotiations with the Spanish club.
Arrivals

Terry has become increasingly disillusioned at Blues and is concerned that they will not be able to challenge Manchester United's domestic dominance next season.

Although Chelsea spent £18m signing Yuri Zhirkov, the only other arrivals are Middlesbrough keeper Ross Turnbull and Manchester City striker Daniel Sturridge.

Terry had been convinced after talks with Abramovich before the FA Cup final victory in May that David Villa and Franck Ribery were the club's two top targets but they have admitted defeat in their pursuit of both.

City are the up- and-coming team in English football with big bucks to realise the ambitions of super-rich owner Sheikh Mansour.

Terry believes City are just two players short of competing with Arsenal for a Champions League place.

omg is this real?

and youve been a member for years so not a wum either!

although it is notw :(

but better than the so called, deafening (for some reason) silence!

 

[danny21manc]

Chelsea skipper lays it on line to Roman Abramovich

JOHN TERRY demanded the chance to speak to Manchester City during two hours of crisis talks with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich yesterday.

Terry stopped short of handing in an official transfer request but the central defender is determined to speak with City officials over the proposed move.

The move comes 48 hours before Carlos Tevez flies in to Eastlands for a medical to seal his £25million switch.

Abramovich is desperate to keep Terry but the England captain wants his future resolved before Chelsea leave for their pre-season tour of America on Thursday.

The pair met after Terry and the rest of the first- team squad took part in an event to support Chelsea's charity partner for the season, Right to Play.

After spending the afternoon at Wentworth, Terry slipped away to talk with the Russian billionaire in a meeting that lasted more than two hours.

Chelsea are reluctant to let Terry leave for City, even for an astonishing £50m. But the defender is determined to hear what they have to offer.

City chief Mark Hughes is prepared to fly back from the club's pre- season training camp in Germany to convince the England captain his future is at Eastlands.

Terry, 28, will be offered £280,000 a week plus a £5m signing-on fee if Chelsea give them permission to talk.

There are already plans at City of setting up a John Terry Foundation, similar to the project proposed by the club during their pursuit of Kaka in January.

City's new partnership with Umbro, who also hold a lucrative contract with Terry, is seen as crucial to the deal.

Although the defender has told friends it would be a huge wrench to leave Chelsea, he fears they have regressed after the big-spending era under Jose Mourinho.

He is also aware of talk at Stamford Bridge about the proposed transfer fee from City being used to complete the signing of Alexandre Pato from AC Milan for a similar fee.

Milan are in talks with Sevilla over the arrival of Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano and will let Pato leave for Chelsea if they can conclude negotiations with the Spanish club.
Arrivals

Terry has become increasingly disillusioned at Blues and is concerned that they will not be able to challenge Manchester United's domestic dominance next season.

Although Chelsea spent £18m signing Yuri Zhirkov, the only other arrivals are Middlesbrough keeper Ross Turnbull and Manchester City striker Daniel Sturridge.

Terry had been convinced after talks with Abramovich before the FA Cup final victory in May that David Villa and Franck Ribery were the club's two top targets but they have admitted defeat in their pursuit of both.

City are the up- and-coming team in English football with big bucks to realise the ambitions of super-rich owner Sheikh Mansour.

Terry believes City are just two players short of competing with Arsenal for a Champions League place.

I'm so fucking happy

Holy shit dont make me do this hahaha its the news of the world ffs im

 

[Pam]

And this is from the Minger, though unfortunately the Minger is more full of crap than the NOW, if such a thing were possible.


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[Judge Rheinhold]

hmmm

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/chelsea/5777837/Do-Umbro-hold-the-key-to-Manchester-Citys-attempts-to-sign-Chelseas-John-Terry.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... Terry.html</a>


sorry if old news

 

[Pam]

Are some of these latest reports too detailed to be totally untrue?

 

[nhsuperstar]

hmmm

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/chelsea/5777837/Do-Umbro-hold-the-key-to-Manchester-Citys-attempts-to-sign-Chelseas-John-Terry.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... Terry.html</a>


sorry if old news

Gary Cook. Genius!!!

 

[smiles]

Chelsea want John Terry to put up or shut up
Duncan Castles, additional reporting by Jonathan Northcroft

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.
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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.

Could Umbro and this agent be the key?!

 

[sam221985]

two papers reporting that though, could be something in it.

edit: three?

 

[Pam]

two papers reporting that though, could be something in it.

I agree. The £50 M fee thing is a bit whiffy, though.