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| Terry could have found himself lining up against Chelsea, not for them |
JOHN TERRY has revealed the closest he came to a permanent move to another English club when Chelsea rejected a bid of nearly £30million for him.
Terry signed for the Blues from West Ham United at the age of 15, and made his senior debut in 1998.
He has spent his entire senior career - aside from a brief loan spell to Nottingham Forest in 2000 - at Stamford Bridge, but there was interest from elsewhere in England.
"There was the thing with Manchester City," said John Terry in an interview with the Daily Mail.
"They offered £29million for me in 2009 and Chelsea turned it down.
"I had a meeting with Roman (Abramovich) about it.
"I said to him, if the club accepts the offer then it tells me you don’t want me.
"So then you haven’t got a choice, you have got to go.
"But if they don’t accept the offer, it tells me everything that I need to know.
"Chelsea refused the offer and that was it."
Terry admitted that it would have been a hard move to make, after 11 years playing senior football at Stamford Bridge.
He is, bar that Forest spell, a one-club man, but would he ever consider a career swan song at another club, as for example, his long-time team-mate Frank Lampard did?
"No. No chance. No chance," Terry added.
"America, maybe. But physically I feel like I can still play. Do I want to play? Of course I do.
"But then decisions come in to it with your family.
"What if you go somewhere and it doesn’t work out? Everything else comes into play, doesn’t it?"
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