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Former Chelsea Captain John Terry Recalls Standing Up to Andre Villas-Boas Over Plane Seat Controversy

Seen from the outside, a locker room sometimes doesn’t seem like much. In June 2011, Chelsea has paid a release clause of 15 million euros for his signing Andre Villas-Boas. Compared to José Mourinho for the past at FC Porto, the Portuguese coach lasted only eight and a half months (dismissed at the beginning of March 2012). There may be something to do with the little anecdote that Iain Terry told recently. Because in an interview given on the YouTube channel of the businessman Simon Jordan, the defender of the club’s logo explains how “AVB”, because of the plane seats in economy class, has taken a party of the group out of the pre-season.

“When AVB happened, we went to Hong Kong. We got on a plane and I was sitting in economy class on a 13-hour flight. And we saw Josh McEachran, Nathaniel Chalobah and a few other young players in premiere class. It was is part of his approach: “No player is bigger than me, everyone is the same”, he first explains in this interview published on Thursday 25 April.

But John Terry, the captain, does not agree with the approach of the Portuguese technician and says: “No, no, we are not going anywhere until these young players return to class economy and players “The first team that made this club what it is today will not return to the first level.”

“I swear the plane wouldn’t take off”

John Terry then clarified that he did not want the young people to give up their places on their own, but for the decision to come from André Villas-Boas. “I tell them: ‘No, no, it’s not your decision, it’s up to him'”, he confides.

“In the end, the situation will turn around, so that the executives of the team go to the first level and the young people return to eco class. This is how it should happen. those young players struggling to be where we are, and he I tried to make a statement from day one It failed immediately I swear the plane wouldn’t have left, or it would have. without me, Frank (Lampard) or Didier drogba).

John Terry, now 43, left Chelsea at the end of the 2016-2017 season. He then played the last year of his football career at Aston Villa.

Original article published on RMC Sport

2024-04-26 06:15:44
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