Chelsea stance on John Terry return revealed after Liam Rosenior sacking | Football

John Terry desired to take interim charge of Chelsea after Liam Rosenior’s sacking but was turned down by the club’s hierarchy, in response to reports.

Rosenior was dismissed by Chelsea on Wednesday, lower than 24 hours after the team’s 3-0 defeat away to Brighton within the Premier League.

Chelsea have now lost five Premier League games in a row and have appointed Calum McFarlane has as interim manager for the rest of the season.

In accordance with talkSPORT presenter Andy Jacobs, who can also be a season ticket holder at Chelsea, Terry would have agreed a short lived role, nevertheless, the club’s hierarchy have made it clear ‘in no uncertain terms’ that he won’t ever manage the team.

‘Every Chelsea fan would love John Terry to are available until the top of the season,’ Jacobs said.

‘I’ve been told he desired to do it, but I’ve been told they didn’t want him.

‘They usually told him in no uncertain terms that he won’t ever, ever get the job.’

Terry works as an element‑time mentor in Chelsea’s academy but was not included among the many Under-21s staff who were temporarily promoted for the games against Manchester City and Fulham in January after Enzo Maresca left Stamford Bridge.

Speaking in February, Terry admitted he was ‘frustrated’ by Chelsea’s decision to overlook him for an interim role with the first-team squad.

‘Not annoyed, probably more frustrated, because I used to be actually a part of that Under‑21s group that went over,’ Terry told Golf Life.

‘So even when I didn’t take the team… Calum took the team, did very well, got a result out of the sport. I feel like I must have been a part of that.

‘Now listen, people have gotten to make decisions. I adore it when people make decisions they usually go ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Clearly the ownership, or whoever made those decisions – the sporting directors – have gone ‘no’ not to incorporate me, for whatever reason. I don’t know why.’

Meanwhile, Jacobs believes Rosenior began to lose Chelsea’s dressing room after blaming a player for conceding a goal within the 1-1 draw with Burnley in February.

‘He’s like an over-promoted junior, he’s less than it, the players can smell it, footballers know, footballers know when the manager is a fake,’ Jacobs said.

‘All of the performative stuff he does, it’s so pathetic, I feel for him. Like last night, he was high-fiving his coaching staff… what for? It’s absolutely pathetic.

‘He’s the worst manager we’ve ever had, surely. That’s the worst performance Chelsea have put in ever. I’ve seen some stinkers in my lifetime, you may tell they simply turned it in, couldn’t be bothered, they’re interested by the World Cup, they don’t need to get injured.

‘The issue with all of that is the sporting directors – [Paul] Winstanley, [Laurence] Stewart, and [Joe] Shields – they’ve got to be fired. There’s no point firing Rosenior, you could fire these three now.

‘It’s a shambles. The season began quite optimistically, they won the Club World Cup, Maresca was doing a superb job, and Colwill got injured on the primary day of pre-season and he [Maresca] begged them to get him a centre-half, a ball-playing centre-half, so that they went out and spent £90 million on [Jamie] Gittens and [Alejandro] Garnacho. That’s how useless these individuals are, all they need to do is buy wide players and we’ve still got no wide players.

‘I mean Garnacho within the last two games, I’ve never seen a player be so bad. He’s beyond useless, he’s indescribably pathetic. Enzo Fernandez absolutely disgusting performance, how dare he stand there staring in front of the fans, he was pitiful, pulling out of challenges.

‘He [Rosenior] had a bit little bit of a period where the players sort of bought in to what he was doing and suddenly because it dawns upon them, this guy is making mistake after mistake. I feel within the Burnley game where Chelsea conceded at the top, it was the beginning of a foul run for him, and he blamed certainly one of the players, he said, ‘anyone missed their project’, and when you try this, throwing the players under the bus, it’s over, it’s done.’

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