John Terry to leave Chelsea at end of the season

But Chelsea released a statement following Terry’s public revelation and it appears the door is still open for him to earn a new contract before the season ends.

After Sunday’s 5-1 win against MK Dons John Terry confirmed that as it stands he will not be having his contract with Chelsea renewed. When I started my first games a year ago he was always talking to me.

He added, “The club will move on”.

With Frank Lampard, who left in 2014, Petr Cech and Didier Drogba, who themselves left the club last summer, he formed the quartet of players embodying the triumphant face Chelsea in the first decade of the 2000s.

“I couldn’t play for another Premier League club”, said Terry. “I simply can not see them winning it with any combination of Gary Cahill, John Stones or Kurt Zouma at centre-back”.

Terry does not want to play for another Premier League club, but big-money offers are likely to come in from Major League Soccer in the United States and the Chinese Super League.

“Chelsea have been struggling and John Terry, I think, as this season has gone on has got better and better”. “It’ll just be elsewhere”, the 35-year-old central defender said. I knew before the Arsenal game so mentally I’ve kind of accepted it. We just have to move.

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Terry was informed prior to last week’s win over Arsenal.

However, Terry did admit that “things might change” when a new manager is appointed, something which the club have since reiterated.

In nearly 700 appearances for the Stamford Bridge club, Terry was the one who represented an old school, never-say-die, thunderous approach that helped bring Chelsea more success than at any time since the club was formed in 1905. Although unfortunately it will be without me.

“I feel as though I’m in great nick, I’m playing great and I’ve got a couple of years to go”.

And current Guangzhou boss Luis Scolari coached Terry during his short stint as Chelsea manager and said this about the defender once: “For John Terry dying on the field would be glory. I want to give everything and finish on a high, on 100 per cent good terms with the club”.

They stuck behind him in his most troubled hours, including when he slipped while taking the penalty that would have won the 2008 Champions League final in Moscow, and when he was deservedly sent off against Barcelona in the same competition’s semifinal in 2012. I couldn’t do that to the Chelsea fans.