John Terry opens up on being ‘overlooked’ for the role of interim Chelsea manager, feeling his should have got the job.
He appeared on the latest episode of Sports Uncensored with Piers Morgan and Simon Jordan, talking about a range of topics.
It included Keir Starmer’s resignation, leadership, England, the World Cup, management opportunities, team talks, Cristiano Ronaldo, handshakes and much more.
But one that has got plenty of talk, a clip going viral across social media, more so John Terry’s TikTok, saw the former footballer being overlooked by Chelsea…
Timestamps –
00:00 Introduction
01:41 Resignation of Keir Starmer and important qualities in a leader
06:18 Should England consider getting a German Prime Minister?
07:29 John Terry on English managers not getting opportunities in England
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10:24 Debate continues on whether England coaches are being overlooked
13:09 John Terry says he should have been the interim Chelsea manager and discusses being overlooked for Liam Rosenior
18:30 What makes a good half time team talk?
21:52 What should be England’s starting line-up for the game against Ghana?
25:10 Is Cristiano Ronaldo is over the hill?
30:22 Should England shake the hands of players like Thomas Partey & Achraf Hakimi?
32:55 The sending off of Miguel Almirón for covering his mouth
39:30 Roy Keane’s WAG shirt rant
41:51 Piers and Simon hope Scotland get beat by 8-0 by Brazil
Piers: “John let me ask you a difficult question but when Rosenior was made the manager of Chelsea, the idea that he would do a better job for Chelsea than you with all your experience and the fact that blue blood run through your veins, I thought that was it was borderline offensive to you…”
Simon: “Oh Piers…”
Piers: “…that they would choose somebody so out of his depth, so amateurish, so kind of weird over someone like you. I didn’t understand that.”
Simon: “Piers!”
John: “You’re 100% spot on and Simon can have his view on it. But firstly, I’ll address the Chelsea one.
“So, for me, it’s I’ve never thought that I could be Chelsea manager. When there’s an opportunity comes up and a manager leaves the football club and Chelsea are looking for an inter interim manager, there there was no one in the building or the buildings, the academy building or the first team building that was more qualified than me in terms of their qualifications.
“More importantly and above all of that, whether it was for one game or two games, there was no one more Chelsea than me.
“And again, touching the supporters of game, give the supporters what they wanted at that specific time.
“Now, did I think that I deserve the Chelsea manager long term? Absolutely not. Because Chelsea is way bigger than me. I need to if I want to go into that, I need to go on my journey to then eventually get the Chelsea job.
“So, that’s that’s the Chelsea issue. Going back to Simon’s bit about the Hokey Cokey, Simon, that’s nonsense.
“I spent four years doing my badges, traveling up and down the country.
“I spent four three and a half years at Aston Villa being assistant assistant manager to Dean Smith, living away from the family to then enable myself to then walk into a job or get a job.
“And I’m not talking Premier League level or Championship level. The jobs I interviewed for were for League One and I still didn’t get the the opportunity to go and do that.”
Simon: “But John, with respect, with respect. Right. First of all, this isn’t a particularly grown-up conversation because first of all, Piers, you’re characterising Liam Rosenior incorrectly.
“Because the reason why Liam Rosenior was given the Chelsea job, as flawed as it was and inconceivable that he was going to have the toolkit, was because he’d been under Blue Co’s management at Strasbourg and was illustrating the capabilities and characteristics of someone they wanted to invest in.
“And because Maresca had a bloody turn, they brought him forward too early. So, there’s lots of reasons. Now, I don’t know…”
Piers: “But you’ve literally just talked about… you literally just talked about… Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. You’ve just talked about why Amorim should not have got the big job at United because the Portuguese League isn’t good enough.”
Simon: “I didn’t talk about that.”
Piers: “We just had that conversation, right? And then now now the argument is Rosenior who is a you know middling performing French club in a league which most people know is you know really not a good league at all.
“So I you know again the parallels are, the truth is Mourinho comes out of the Portuguese league and he’s a world and he’s a world beater.
“Amorim was out of his depth. Rosenior did well in the French league, kind of meaningless, did appallingly at Chelsea right so I don’t think there’s a natural correlation between people doing well in poor leagues and and then, but I would say this if you look at Michael Carrick and what United did with Carrick right.
“So Carrick’s given the gig when Amorim’s falls on his sword or is pushed on it so Carrick comes in and he takes his chance and out of that he proves himself and is now the Manchester United full-time manager that could have happened with John at Chelsea, I do think he’d done the hard yards, I do think he’d done the Hokey Cokey, had he been brought in and had he revived Chelsea in those games after a senior, he could have been Chelsea’s answer to Michael Carrick.”
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Simon: “Well, we’ll see Pierce with the greatest respect of in the world, neither of you have owned a football club and neither of you have interviewed managers to be in an employment position.
“So with a great deal of admiration from John Terry which I do have and I think he has the capability of being a leader in any space he goes in there is a lot more involved in employing a manager and the gist of this conversation has sort of spiralled off as to the reasons why we don’t have a group of English managers that are capable of managing the national side.
“I’ll go to your point about Eddie how, by the way John you’re wrong. Eddie how didn’t want the England manager’s job.
“I interviewed Eddie how at the time when there was an opportunity for him to be considered he ruled himself out. So he may ruled himself back in again but at that particular time he felt that his club career was a better opportunity for him with Newcastle and he wanted to do that.
“I believe that culturally English managers have over the years been lazy, been unprofessional, have been disrespectful and don’t understand how to embrace technology or to embrace the evolutions of the game.
“Now that has changed. That has changed, because foreign coaches have shown the way.
“But as far as Thomas Tuchel is concerned, yes, it’s disappointing that we have to have a national manager from an overseas entity. But it is what it is and maybe the next turn of the wheel will be English managers.
“And Sean Dyche was talking about the system failing him. There’s plenty of opportunities. You just have to be good. Kieran McKenna was good. Other people have been good.
“Let’s hope that we can evolve into a situation where not only do we have elite clubs in England, that the only thing English about them is their bloody geography, but we can have some elite managers, too.”
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