31 Jan 2016 20:14:15
Extremely disappointed to say the least that John Terry's contract is seemingly not being renewed. Truly appalling handling of the situation from the club, yet again. One thing is certain, the supporters will let the club know what they think.
Considering his experience and leadership, two attributes not widely associated with this current crop of players, it is even worse.
The fact that we currently have no better defender, literally, at the club, compounds it for me. What is the plan to replace him?
The most likely outcome based on recent activity is that we will penny pinch for another inept centre half such as Djilobodji while watching the best options such as Stones go to join the latest FFP free 100m investment surge at Citeh, compliments of "Etihad Airways", Marquinhos going to Barcelona or whoever coughs up enough for him. It is a truly diabolical succession strategy. We are a football club, not a bank.
This decision might be the last straw for some supporters, giving Benitez the job, removing Mourinho and, probably having to downgrade in order to appoint a new manager due to being seen as an inferior proposition than sides such as Citeh, and we had a five year head start on them, don't forget.
Not giving Terry a contract combined with the utterly bizarre lack of ambition in the market to replace Terry, JT even apparently said "maybe they will sign one or two world class centre halfs" in a deadpan manner, all confirms to me that it seems, the lunatics are running the asylum and that the owner should not be trusting some of the people he is as we are falling behind with every poor decision we make.
31 Jan 2016 21:10:29
Although I too am disappointed to see his contract not being renewed, we don't really know what's going on behind the scenes. For all we know it might have been his own decision, he's not had the best season, so he might have decided to end his Chelsea career while he's still considered one of the best defenders in the league.
01 Feb 2016 02:22:15
No offense Chelea00, but half your post seems very naive especially regarding transfers. Ed002 has mentioned that we're interested in Stones and Marquinhos and come the summer we'll likely look at a few others. I'm sure the club are doing everything within their power to acquire high quality players, but that doesn't mean we will get them. This isn't play ground football where you point at a player and boom they're on your team.
The summer transfer window was poor due to the board's belief that we didn't need serious reinforcements and other clubs wanting too much for their players (Pogba, Stones, Griezmann) . This January window has been lackluster as January is always a hard month to acquire quality players, our league position and the fact that we don't have a permanent manager. The last thing the club want to do is waste money going out and buying a player that the new manager won't want in 6 months time.
Also finally, atm the club haven't offered JT a new deal but when we've signed a permanent manager they could want Terry for another year.
01 Feb 2016 09:03:37
well said mate, good post.
02 Feb 2016 05:14:58
That post, Fuser, I totally agree with. However as in any business there is a time to move on. He has made millions from this club, but it is time.