Terry will not be offered new contract

Chelsea will NOT offer John Terry a new contract when his current deal expires at the end of next season.

The Blues board are determined to sweep away the club’s old guard and have decided the skipper no longer forms part of their long-term plans.

The decision has been taken as much for concerns over Terry’s fitness as the controversy which sees him serving a four-match ban for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand.

And Terry’s fellow Chelsea legend Frank Lampard could now leave Stamford Bridge as soon as January.

Lampard, 34, was left on the bench at White Hart Lane yesterday and sent on as a 90th-minute sub in the 4-2 Chelsea win.

Los Angeles Galaxy are preparing a bid for him which would see him heading to Major League Soccer for the start of next year’s campaign in March.

Galaxy are desperate to sign the England midfielder, whose current Chelsea deal expires next summer.

No talks on a new agreement have been held, leaving Lampard free to speak to overseas clubs in January.

And certain financial hurdles have been cleared which could see him leave the club in the New Year after a hugely successful 12-year stint.

Ashley Cole is also likely to go at the end of the season as he has no intention of signing the one-year deal he has been offered.

Terry, 31, is set to leave the Bridge in the summer of 2014 at the latest with board members adamant he will not be offered another deal.

Directors only took the ­controversial decision to keep Terry on as club ­skipper because they feared a fans’ backlash. But Chelsea’s ‘Captain, Leader, Legend’ knows his days are now ­numbered at the club where he has spent his entire career.

Source: ThePeople