If you were going to pick a fitting stage for John Terry to moan about his lack of opportunity as a coach at Chelsea and beyond, these were some wonderful ingredients: golf course, YouTube, Jimmy Bullard. In that order.
Terry, currently an employee of Chelsea, expressed his annoyance that he was not part of the group invited to step up for the Premier League fixture against Manchester City following the departure of Enzo Maresca last month. Terry is a part-time mentor in the academy.
Which on the face of it… fine? Terry played 700 games for Chelsea and has a Uefa Pro Licence. He was Aston Villa assistant head coach for three years. Carlo Ancelotti was very impressed with Terry’s ability as a leadership coach for young players. If he is in the Chelsea system, it probably is a little weird that his role, as Terry apparently sees it, has been so limited.
Terry has not done nothing with his post-playing career, of course. There was that NFT project that lost 99 per cent of its value and had to remove the Premier League trophy from its branding after a legal intervention.
He was named as Guangzhou’s ambassador of football culture and subsequently embarked upon a “JT Captain China Tour”. It is not even true to say that he has not been a first-team manager. We all admired his work with the Baller League team 26ers.
The Blues legend announced his retirement from playing in 2018 (Photo: Getty)But in general, a theme: Terry perceives himself as being misused and overlooked, a first-team manager who slipped through the net. A club legend in a bit-part role. It is just that the journey, and his opinions on it, appear to change with the wind.
To Bullard, Terry said that he loved his role at Chelsea, explained that he would also love to manage the club one day but accepted that that was unlikely without managing other clubs first. So far, so sensible.
But last August, in an interview with The Sun, Terry bemoaned his lack of chances in the game:
“I don’t really coach at the moment. I went for a couple of jobs and those days are gone for me. I’ve done everything at Chelsea. I’m not saying a job in the Premier League or the Championship – but a job at League One level. I didn’t even get a sniff. I had interviews and it was just ‘you have no experience’. When I see some people managing today, it baffles me, it really does.”
But in 2022, Terry conducted another interview in which he said that he had turned down three jobs in the previous year as well as failing to land two more that he interviewed for. He said that not managing was a personal decision because he had his role at Chelsea and it gave him time to play golf.
So it baffles him that certain people get coaching jobs but he is not actually coaching at the moment. And he never got a sniff but he turned down three jobs. And that is his call because he is very happy doing what he is doing, but he is annoyed enough about not being called up for a one-off match ahead of actual coaches. And he wants to manage Chelsea but says he does not want to manage anywhere else first. I hope you are keeping up.
Is this all not a little bleak, this roundabout of bitterness fuelled by the assumption that things would be easier because of who he was and where he feels he should be? All platformed by a cycle of not caring because “Mr Chelsea” while repeatedly telling people that he might care a bit.
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Because others are getting opportunities despite inexperience: Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick, Scott Parker, Jack Wilshere and Tom Cleverley from Terry’s England cohort alone; there are many more at every level in England. We are living in a golden age of clubs giving inexperienced managers a chance, with varying degrees of success.
The unpleasant truth: Terry’s coaching qualifications are not worth much outside Chelsea because he would be a difficult appointment to sell to supporters. The controversies of his playing career and personal life make him one of the least popular members of his football generation with the general public, fairly or otherwise.
And that is the problem here. It is not that the game is overlooking a potential fine manager. It is that competition is rife, Terry is 45 and not coaching and has a reputation that would lead to most supporters of most clubs protesting against his appointment. Still, maybe the NFT market will rebound strongly in 2026.
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