John Terry: ‘No communication’ with Chelsea on new deal
“It’s a hard one”, added Terry, who made his debut for Chelsea in 1998 and is two games away from making 700 appearances for the club.
Terry, however, admitted that the most important thing at the moment was to bring Chelsea back on track, Sport24 reported.
Terry claimed post-match that there had been no communication from Chelsea’s hierarchy over a possible contract extension despite Hiddink’s assertion that the door was not closed on the long-serving club captain.
“I can not believe John Terry won’t be here next year”, the Scot said on Sky Sports. I have made it very clear: “I want to stay”.
Some Chelsea fans wore masks of Terry’s face, others displayed banners backing him and there were chants of “sign him up” and “we want you to stay” that would have been heard by owner Roman Abramovich, who was in the Stamford Bridge stands.
Kenny believes Chelsea approach makes sense to wait and see where Terry is at performance-wise before offering a contract and added that the club “owe John Terry absolutely nothing”.
But speaking on Sunday, Hiddink said was not going to speculate further.
Prior to kick-off on Sunday, the Blues skipper was given a rapturous reception by the fans, and that support is something that was not lost on him: ‘The fans were incredible, for me the best fans in the world.
“I’ll never forget my memories here and they will live with me forever”. Let’s see what happens. We are now focusing ourselves and he himself explained that he’s focusing on the games in a tough week or weeks coming up. He replied: “No, I don’t think so”.
“They’re a good side so it’s not a bad result, but ideally we need to start winning”.
Terry’s importance to Chelsea could be underlined during the remainder of the campaign after Hiddink confirmed that centre-half Kurt Zouma could be ruled out for the remainder of the season after landing awkwardly and being carried off on a stretcher.