Chelsea captain Terry refutes claims of unrest

Chelsea captain John Terry has told the Evening Standard that he is 100 percent behind Portuguese manager Andre Villas-Boas. Yesterday, there had been suggestions that Villas-Boas has not been on talking terms with midfielder Frank Lampard, despite the England midfielder scoring a match winning goal.

Villas-Boas has initially struggled to turn around the fortunes of Chelsea since his expensive arrival from Porto last summer.


John Terry, the club captain, has now revealed that reports of unrest in the Chelsea camp are somewhat wide of the mark.


Terry said: "I want to make it clear I'm 100percent behind the manager. There are no problems behind the scenes.


"The manager has made it clear the players who want to stay here will be here and the ones who don't can move on."


In recent weeks, Nicolas Anelka has already quit the club for Shanghai Shenhua, whilst Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda and Alex are all expected to leave in the January transfer window if they can find a new club.


"I have seen on the news today that people are saying I didn't celebrate with the manager for the first goal against Wolves but I did," said the England captain.


"I ran over there and I was worried that Wolves were about to restart and take the kick-off and catch us on the break while we were celebrating. I had a quick celebration with him then after the game as well.


"Roman is fully behind him, the club as well, and he is making these changes, not for the short term but for the long term as well. He is going to be the man in charge and we all have to respect his decisions. He has been very up front with all of us so we can't argue with what he's done.''