Andre Villas-Boas Lost The Respect Of Chelsea Players On The First Day – Terry

Chelsea legend, John Terry has come out to share how Andre Villas-Boas lost the trust of senior stars years back. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Andre Villas-Boas immediately lost the trust of the senior players at Chelsea after allowing youth players in first-class on a flight, while the first teamers sat on economy.

Terry added that AVB simply tried to make a strange statement on day one, but he failed instantly.

His words, “When AVB came in, we went to Hong Kong I think when he was first manager. We got on the plane and I’m sitting on economy on a 13-hour flight. And we’ve got Josh McEachran, Nathaniel Chalobah, a couple of other young players, all in first class.

And this was part of AVB going: ‘No player is bigger than me, everyone’s the same.’ It turns out Lamps [Frank Lampard] is flying out first class and I’m flying back first class, so if you fly out at home in first, you come back in economy. But basically it wasn’t good enough, so I’m going: ‘No no, we’re not going anywhere until these young players go back in economy, and the first team players that have built this club to where we are today go back in first’.

And we’re on the plane, people are up and down, AVB comes up: ‘What’s the problem?’, I’m going: ‘Well we’re not going anywhere until the young players move.’ And to be fair to the young players, they’re going: ‘Listen JT, this is really uncomfortable, we will go back.’ I’m going: ‘No no, it’s not your decision, he [Villas-Boas] has to own it’, so this is one of his first things in front of everyone. In the end, it spins, so all first-team players fly first, and younger players go back in economy, that’s how it should be. These younger players are striving to be where we’ve got, and he tried to make a statement on day one and he failed instantly. Because I promise you, the plane wasn’t going, and if it was going, it would have gone without myself, Frank and Didier [Drogba].”

WOW.