In an interview with Soccer AM, John Terry has once again expressed his desire to extend his contract at Stamford Bridge.
The Chelsea captain indicated in January that he would not be offered a new deal which queued a long-running debate over his treatment by the club’s hierarchy.
This has not been helped by the uncertainty surrounding the arrival of new manager Antonio Conte who is likely to have the last say on the issue during a summer of much change at Stamford Bridge.
However, Terry remained hopeful that he has more time left at the Blues, claiming that he is capable of playing for at least two more years at the highest level.
I’ve got a couple of years left. Definitely I intend to keep playing, hopefully that’s at Chelsea, but if not it will be somewhere else. “I am definitely feeling good physically and I intend to play as long as I can. As a professional footballer you’re a long time retired, so I think not only for myself but for all of us we should get the most out of it and enjoy it while it’s there.
The former England skipper has been linked with a move to America and the Middle East while a move to China is also a possibility after his ‘one-man tour’ of the country last summer.
The 35-year-old also commented on the role of academy players at the club – a subject that has been talked about a lot recently as Chelsea secured both the UEFA Youth League and FA Youth Cup in the past couple of weeks.
Asked if young players should still be cleaning boots and performing other domestic tasks, Terry replied:
I think so, and it’s the interaction as well, you’d have the responsibility firstly of cleaning the players’ boots and making sure they’re in the skip ready for the next game. Nowadays it’s all on the kit men. The academy boys and the reserve boys are over in another building. The separation is too much for me. If I was the FA or PFA, I’d go back to have them doing boots and a little bit of duties. That would be the one for me.
