Chelsea elect TO offer Terry contract extension

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10150801/john-terry-says-chelsea-will-not-renew-his-contract-at-the-end-of-the-season

Wow

Absolutely ludicrous decision. Ivanovic handed an extension on a silver platter after years of abject shittiness yet our captain and the first name on the teamsheet every week is flogged off. The absolute state of this club.

Disgraceful, he won't play for another English club which is a given I suppose.

Maybe MLS?

Chelsea without Terry will be weird...

Like Inter without Zanetti or Milan without Maldini.

Only on a far more pathetic level.

GTFO JT is a legend as much as them guys.

Yeah but club has no history and he *bleep* wives

Abramovich wrote:Disgraceful, he won't play for another English club which is a given I suppose.

Maybe MLS?

joining lamps at new york

Vibe wrote:Yeah but club has no history and he *bleep* wives

He's 35, it's the right decision by Chelsea. He's still OK, but OK shouldn't be enough for Chelsea.

I'd honestly keep him around.

But it is sad if true.

Vibe wrote:Yeah but club has no history and he *bleep* wives

"Your club didn't win titles in the 60's therefore players who've been with you for 20+ years since childhood mean less to your fans than ours do to ours"

Enough, Shed.

Let's not turn this thread into an argument.

I am aware.

The only reasoning I can put behind this decision is perhaps the clubs sees the upcoming season as the start of a new era, with Zouma and potentially Stones as our starting CB's so Terry was not needed.

But I don't like the decision.

Even if we assume that true, there's no doubt in my mind he'd have been just as happy to stay as an alternate player. He's still the best we have and would have gotten plenty of playing time, and it would have allowed us to retain his experience and leadership in the dressing room as well. It's a bemusing decision.

Indeed.

I suppose the other factor is Bran's contract extension. He is younger and going to be our next Captain. I think it must have been a keep one, lose the other, situation.

Maybe another reason is to reduce the wage bill as we won't likely have CL football next season?

Our Captain-in-waiting is a player who's stealing a living and can only be assumed to have a sex tape of whatever manager he's currently playing under considering he remains on the teamsheet week after week. Says it all about the state of this club at the moment.


As for potential financial implications, it'll surely cost us more to a.) sign someone good enough to replace JT and b.) pay such a player's wages, than it would be to just keep him on.

When Ivanovic can only be replaced by Baba Rahman, or Ola Aina, I can understand why he still starts. Hence why I've been crying out for a RB for 6 months or so.

Fair point, unless we want to roll into next season with Cahill, Zouma, Christensen and Miazga?

Miazga is probably who the geniuses at the top see as his replacement

Jokes aside though, the club's inability to find and sign a halfway competent fullback doesn't equate to Ivanovic being good enough to start and good enough to stay. As a back-up maybe, but when we're talking about him being our next captain and thus a regular in the team, we've got a problem.

And lastly, heading into a season with those 4 would be suicide.

I think Zouma is Terry's replacement, really.

I'm still 100% in the switch Bran to CB camp.

signing a RB, loaning Baba and bringing back Ake would make me quite happy.

a defence of:
RB:
e.g. Mario Gaspar, Seamus Coleman et al., Ola Aina, Ivanovic, and Azpilicueta

CB:
Cahill Zouma, Ivanovic, Christensen/Miazga/Hector, Ake

LB:
Azpilicueta, Ake

With Ivanovic and Cahill as captain and vice captain respectively. Lots of experience and depth, with some decent back ups, imo.

Didn't Coleman just move?

No. He has been at Everton since 2009.

Somehow managed to confuse him with Naismith


Apologies.

He's much better than Naismith ffs.

To add to that RB list, Dani Carvajal, Clyne, De Marcos, Fabinho, or perhaps Cedric from Soton?

Anyway, that team could get on without Terry, imo.