John Terry, Chelsea captain and England, takes 10,000 pounds (11,280 euros) in cash for private guided visits to the training center of the London club, no one entity has knowledge of it.
John Terry, Chelsea captain and England, takes 10,000 pounds (11,280 euros) in cash for private guided visits to the training center of the London club, no one entity has knowledge of it.
This was reported in its Sunday edition of the newspaper News of the World, which published a video in which the player appears, closing the deal with Tony Bruce, a popular resale of football tickets is the intermediary between the defense and visitors.
Reporters from the newspaper posed as a wealthy businessmen football fans and fans of Chelsea and gave the money to the intermediary at the request of Terry, in a recorded conversation with a hidden camera. Chelsea captain makes it clear in conversation that neither the club nor the coach, the Italian Carlo Ancelotti, are aware of these visits, because the training facilities are a place of utmost privacy for the players.
Also ensures that the 8,000 pounds he will stay (the other 2,000 are for Bruce) actions to charity, but stressed the need for secrecy, while the intermediary calls for commitment to visitors who do not speak for Terry if someone asks them something. "If something goes wrong, then you must say that John did not know anything," says Bruce.
Immediately thereafter, the agent spoke of money and one of the alleged employer gives the money in a small bag, while listening to Terry say: 'Give it to Tony. A few yards from where the scene is happening, says the paper, is Ancelotti, unaware of what is happening.
News of the World reported that then Terry, who has a record of 8.3 million pounds (9.3 million), accompanied them for two hours in a visit that could see Michael Ballack and Didier Drogba getting into a hot tub to Petr Cech playing ping-pong and Joe Cole getting a massage.
The newspaper has already sent to Chelsea Football Federation recordings with the talks, in which Terry is also shown willing to further visits in the future, always emphasizing that "we must warn people that they can not tell anyone, because if someone finds out we can not do more."