Chelsea: Terry-Mourinho Relationship Breaks Down

Ike Casillas looks more of a club symbol than John Terry and despite what he stood for then at Madrid Jose dropped him. It seems the Terry days are rounding up but i believe Jose will still use him but the arrival of Stones might reduce him more to FA cup matches.

John Terry’s subsitution at Manchester City last weekend came as a shock, not least because it was the first time Jose Mourinho had ever subbed the defender off in the Premier League.

Add to that the fact that Terry is club captain, and that he played every single minute of every single game last season, and it was a puzzling move that’s left the collective football world scratching its head.


Was it really a purely tactical decision as Mourinho claimed afterwards?

Or was it a symbolic gesture by Mourinho, trying to tacitly show owner Roman Abramovich that Terry is no longer up to it, and that he needs defensive reinforcements?

Listening to the Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast yesterday, you’d be inclined to believe the latter version of events.

Host James Richardson makes the claim that the relationship has completely broken down between Jose Mourinho and John Terry, and that Mourinho no longer even addresses his captain on the training ground.

It’s quite an astonishing claim, and possibly slightly embellished, but an interesting insight into the current madness at Chelsea nonetheless.