Chelsea stance on John Terry return revealed after Liam Rosenior sacking

John Terry was open to taking the interim job at Chelsea (Getty)

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

Rosenior was dismissed by Chelsea on Wednesday , less than 24 hours after the team’s 3-0 defeat away to Brighton in 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 remainder of the season.

According to talkSPORT presenter Andy Jacobs, who is also a season ticket holder at Chelsea, Terry would have agreed a temporary role, however, the club’s hierarchy have made it clear ‘in no uncertain terms’ that he will never manage the team.

‘Every Chelsea fan would love John Terry to come in until the end of the season,’ Jacobs said.

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

‘And they told him in no uncertain terms that he will never, ever get the job.’

Chelsea are said to have no intention of including John Terry in their first-team plans (MB Media/Getty)

Terry works as a part‑time mentor in Chelsea’s academy but was not included among the 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 was certainly part of that Under‑21s group that went over,’ Terry told Golf Life.

‘So even if I didn’t take the team… Calum took the team, did really well, got a result out of the game. I feel like I should have been part of that.

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

Liam Rosenior was sacked by Chelsea on Wednesday (Reuters)

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

‘He’s like an over-promoted junior, he’s not up to it, the players can smell it, footballers know, footballers know when the manager is a fake,’ Jacobs said.

‘All 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, without a doubt. That’s the worst performance Chelsea have put in ever. I’ve seen some stinkers in my lifetime, you can tell they just turned it in, couldn’t be bothered, they’re thinking about the World Cup , they don’t want to get injured.

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

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

‘I mean Garnacho in 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 little bit of a period where the players kind of bought in to what he was doing and suddenly as it dawns upon them, this guy is making mistake after mistake. I think in the Burnley game where Chelsea conceded at the end, it was the start of a bad run for him, and he blamed one of the players, he said, ‘somebody missed their assignment’, and once you do that, throwing the players under the bus, it’s over, it’s done.’