Chelsea legend John Terry turned down huge contract offer from Manchester City in 2009 to stay at Stamford Bridge

Chelsea legend John Terry turned down huge contract offer from Manchester City in 2009 to stay at Stamford Bridge
John Terry rejected a huge contract offer from Manchester City to stay at Chelsea in 2009.Former City chief executive Garry Cook revealed the club held talks with the defender about a move to the Etihad.Terry turned down a lucrative offer from City in order to renegotiate a bigger pay packet with Chelsea2
Terry turned down a lucrative offer from City in order to renegotiate a bigger pay packet with Chelsea
The Blues gave City permission to talk to the England captain after pursuing him for most of that summer.However, Terry turned down the five-year deal before signing a new deal at Stamford Bridge in August.Cook told theSky Sports News Transfer Talk podcast: “We went through the process [of signing Terry].“[Chelsea chief executive] Peter Kenyon was there at the time and we had conversations with him, saying we’d like to do it and we’d like to have a conversation.Cook talks with City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak2
Cook talks with City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak
“I think he was probably more confident that he [Terry] wasn’t going anywhere.“We had conversations with John and he decided to stay where he was, and quite rightly so.“But there was never a document ready to sign.”In 2017, the defender admitted the interest gave him ‘bargaining power’ when it came to negotiating a new deal with Roman Abramovich. Terry signed a 150,000-a-week deal to make him the best-paid player at the club at the time.“There were players out there who were using us as a stalking horse and that’s the game,” Cook added. “If you want to get a better contract in your renewal with the club you’re with, then you’ve got to try and raise a market, and that’s what agents would do.“The reality is, would we have liked a lot of them to come? Yes. But the truth is, some of them were a little bit smoke and mirrors.”

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