Terry Should Say ‘No’ to City Now
Posted by Seth Walder | Posted in English Premier League, World Soccer | Posted: July 16, 2009 at 10:52 am
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As part of Manchester City’s attempt to buy every player on the face of the Earth, the club are making a large offer to lure Chelsea defender and leader John Terry over to their side. While not much was thought of the idea in the beginning, John Terry has yet to say he is uninterested in the substantial amount of money he would receive were he to join Mark Hughes and his side, increasing the speculation that maybe this past season was Terry’s last at Stamford Bridge.
At this point, things can almost only be bad for Chelsea. While they have insisted that Terry is not for sale, were Terry to come out and say that it is his desire to join Manchester City, Chelsea’s hand would be forced. And that would not leave a pretty picture for the Blues. Not only would Terry cause much angst within the club if he left, but there would be a gaping hole at the central defender position. Chelsea might try and make a move to replace him if he were to leave, but it’s not like there are a boatload of John Terry’s out there just waiting to be snatched up by any club that needs one.
I don’t have to tell you that it’s in Chelsea’s best interest to do literally everything they can to keep the England international. No question he is vital to their team, and if they lose him, there season would just be that much more difficult. But even under the assumption that he will stay with the London side, he has already provided the club with some problems. Now that the team has traveled to the West Coast of the United States, undoubtedly every player is wondering if Terry is even their teammate anymore. Each passing day that Terry waits to make up his mind he makes the problem worse for the club, even if he ultimately ends up staying, and that is not the kind of leadership a fragile club like Chelsea needs.
I know Terry would be making far more money at City, but right now he is the face of his club, and he needs to start acting like a captain should do.
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Totally agree – i wish he would have opened his mouth a long time back. I am a City supporter and feel we are being used as a device to squeeze more money out of his own club. I can’t honestly see a reason as to why he would leave Chelsea before winning the CL – and nor do i think he should. At the end of the day somebody in his camp are fluttering their eyelids at City for whatever reason and not only does is annoy the hell out of me, but i can’t imagine feeling too chuffed about it if i was a Chelsea fan either. I’ve always being an admirer of JT, but he’s doing himself no favours here. City should move on and Chelsea should smack his legs – he is the captain of club and country for gods’ sake,- not impressed.
Your general problem “Man City’s attempt to buy every player … etc” was created by Chelsea, and now it’s coming back to bite. No, the money culture of football is not Chelsea’s fault, it’s Sky and the EPL, but Chelsea fueled the ridiculous money stakes.
When all that started, City were floundering in debt. Their management has sorted itself out and got a good solid investment. Now they are critisised for exactly what Chelsea did.
The silly thing is that when Chelsea did it, they signed players at 16M and everybody jumped at it, not City offer 35M and the club says double please and then the players agents want 200,000 a week.
Yes, I critisised cheque book football by Chelsea, all those years ago, but once you have accepted that is the way it’s going to be then get on with it. If you’re out bid then fine.
Alan Sugar was right, footballers are the greediest bunch of money grabbing, disloyal shits the world has invented.
I dearly hope that lots of overpaid untrustworthy skilled players end up at City, and lift all the trophies I have dreamt they would do one day. But I will know it’s because I have accepted the demise of the game some 20 years ago, and that was not my fault or City’s, just progress.
When City win something, I hope they dedicate it to us, the fans who have been there through everything, and we didn’t demand 200,000 a week, we just paid for the ticket, travel and Div2.
That’s about the size of it BluePanther – sad isn’t it?