Jonas Olsson: ‘John Terry too good to leave Chelsea’

The Baggies welcome Chelsea to the Hawthorns this afternoon amid speculation that Terry might be frozen out of the Chelsea team following a half-time substitution in last week’s defeat against Manchester City.

Stones was exceptional during his first full season as an Everton player last campaign. I think he is too good not to be back in the team all the time.

It’s no wonder that Mourinho is so determined to get his man with reports suggesting that he is now going to line up a £40-million offer for the former Barnsley youngster, as per Bleacher Report.

Kurt Zouma came on in Terry’s place and Chelsea conceded two more goals as they slipped to their first defeat of the season.

“No, I didn’t have a single word about it”, Mourinho said. “He showed clearly what we have, but we go back to Courtois”.

“I wanted my fastest defender on the pitch, and played Zouma”.

“Since my arrival here, they’re always in good hands”.

Blues boss Jose Mourinho could decide to give Terry and Stones a share of responsibilities in defence, if he successfully signs the Everton defender, and Neville believes the latter would learn plenty from the experienced veteran.

What a blow to hear that Manchester United will not be signing Pedro from Barcelona, after all the indications at the start of the week that they would be. My players understood the explanations and reacted positively. The Angel di Maria move did not work out, so there is an vast value to having a player attacking with pace down one side of the pitch, freeing up other players. The aim with situations like that is not to stay down for too long – because what you don’t want is the physio coming on.