John Terry: Chelsea rejected £29m Manchester City bid for me in 2009

Rejected: John Terry has won seven major titles with Chelsea since City's rejected bid
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Tom Dutton5 December 2015

Chelsea captain John Terry has revealed he was the subject of a £29million bid from Manchester City in 2009.

The 34-year-old has been with the Blues since joining the youth set-up in 1995, and were it not for a brief loan spell at Nottingham Forest five years later he would not have kicked a ball for another club in his professional career.

Terry was on the verge of joining Huddersfield after that stint at the City Ground, but a string of impressive performances under then Forest boss Davis Platt prompted Chelsea to hold on to the central defender.

And asked if he has ever come close to leaving Stamford Bridge since, the Blues skipper told the Daily Mail: "There was the thing with Manchester City. They offered £29million for me in 2009 and Chelsea turned it down.

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"I had a meeting with Roman (Abramovich) about it. I said to him, if the club accepts the offer then it tells me you don’t want me. So then you haven’t got a choice, you have got to go.

"But if they don’t accept the offer, it tells me everything that I need to know. Chelsea refused the offer and that was it."

Terry has gone on to win two Premier League titles, two FA Cups, one League Cup, the Europa League and the Champions League (albeit, missing the final) since Abramovich opted against selling the centre-back to City.

As Mourinho won the top flight crown in the second season of his second spell last year, the defender played every single minute, becoming the top-scoring Premier League defender.

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