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Manchester City target John Terry again

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Manchester City target John Terry again

John Terry

World's richest club Manchester City have targeted Chelsea's John Terry again, after two previous bids have failed already. The latest offer reportedly amounts to 40 million pounds sterling, although Chelsea had already released a strong statement indicating that the player is not for sale. Ultimately, the decision also rests with Terry himself, but the question remains, where does all the encouragement for City to pursue the player so relentlessly come from?.

One speculation is that John Terry is trying to force out a better Chelsea contract for himself, using the Manchester City interest as leverage.

Chelsea were defiant last week, saying they had  "completely rejected" City’s offer, the Times have reported. However Terry is still to indicate that he wants to commit himself to the Blues, with speculations that he is trying to add 65K a week to his wages, from his current 135 000 pounds sterling, to 200 000.

In relation to the ongoing saga, new Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti will aim to hammer out the differences with John Terry in a personal meeting behind closed doors and determine if Terry still sees himself in London for the future.

The Sheiks previously tabled a  25 million pounds sterling which was swiftly followed by a 30 millions pounds offer for the player, according to the Guardian, both of them were rejected by Stamford Bridge

The evidence has remained however, that Manchester City are receiving strong encouragement from somewhere within the London club, which has kept their ambition in signing the player, alive and burning.

"City would not have pursued Terry so rigorously had they not been given grounds for encouragement and are refusing to concede defeat despite having a 30 million pounds bid rejected last week" said a Chelsea club spokesperson, quoted by the Guardian.

Meanwhile Ancelotti is about to make the first signing for Chelsea, CSKA Moscow's Yuri Zhirkov for 18 million pounds sterling,

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