Chelsea news: The Blues legend has ruled himself out of a role at the club after Graham Potter was sacked.
John Terry has revealed his stance on management as Chelsea start a search for their third manager of the season. Graham Potter, who only replaced Thomas Tuchel in September, was sacked after just seven months in charge.
Terry, who is yet to land his first managerial job since retiring as a player, has been a big advocate for Potter throughout. "It's been five years since we won the Premier League. Is that going to change this year? No," he admitted openly earlier this season.
"So you're looking at the FA Cup, Carabao Cup, European Cup… it's going to be tough," the former Blues skipper added. "So then all of your eggs are going to be in two baskets domestically, and actually you need to keep players fit, so do you rest and rotate players to make sure they get in the top four? What's the priority? Only Potter will know that."
"When you speak to anyone within the training ground or around the place, what he's done on the field has spoken for itself: the way he plays, the formation. But also the way he is with the players. I think in this day and age if you're a young manager, you need to understand the players. And I think these young managers like him understand the players better than anybody and can relate to them.
"I think you get them onside by day one, everyone is going to be watching. That first meeting, the first training session: how does he conduct himself? How does he hold himself? Can he handle this big dressing room? And if he's come in and put his marker down from day one, players, go 'Ooh hello'.
"Pretty much like we did when Mourinho came in. No one had really heard of him, and then he comes in and goes, 'I'm in charge'. If [Potter] has done a similar thing, both on the pitch and off the pitch, the players will respect that.
"But also they'll be looking at his sessions and tactically how he sets them up for games and that side of it. So you've got a two or three-day window where you can go and impress the players - and by all accounts, he's gone and done that. And listen, I hope he does well."
"Clearly results are not good enough and we need to get a settled team." Now the club are looking for another new head coach to take them in the direction desired by the new owners.
When asked about his next steps on Stephen Hendry's Cue tips YouTube channel, the former Aston Villa coach said: "The only job I'd come out of retirement for would be the Chelsea job. To be involved in some capacity in the first team. I love my role at the minute with a bit of work with the younger players.
"Having been through that process myself I'm passing on loads of knowledge to them so I'm having conversations with them but I enjoy my golf. I want to play a bit of golf, have a bit of family time as well. The reason that I left Villa, I've not really said anywhere, I had to come back home and be with family to be there and support them.
"I see myself as a coach in the long-term, I enjoyed the coaching side of it but I have to say there's better coaches than me. I went for a couple of jobs when I left, didn't get those and got a bit deflated."
Terry continued to say that he believed Potter needed more time but that has since been cut short. "Unfortunately they're in the position at the moment where the other teams are better than us. Manchester City, Arsenal have performed well. I think it's a two, three year cycle. The players that have come in look very good but they've not all hit the ground running."
"Like all managers, you're judged on results," he explained. "It's hard for him because you inherit that success, we've had 20 years of incredible success."
Terry is a hugely popular figure within the club to this day and fans would flock to see him involved.