John Terry Rules Himself Out of Job While Filming Video on Golf Course

John Terry has played down rumours suggesting he could walk away from Chelsea to take his first managerial job.

The 45-year-old former England international, a five-time Premier League winner, made the transition to coaching after hanging up his boots and joined Aston Villa as Dean Smith's assistant in 2018.

He was later named as one of Smith's assistants at Leicester City alongside Craig Shakespeare but three months later, in the summer of 2023, he rejoined boyhood club Chelsea as an academy coach.

Terry is still coaching in the Chelsea academy, although he was recently linked with the vacant job at Championship strugglers Oxford United, who recently sacked Gary Rowett following a poor run of form.

A report from The Sun claimed Oxford’s owners have been keeping tabs on Terry, two years after he interviewed for the position at the U's before the club decided to hire Des Buckingham.

However, Terry himself has personally denied the rumours during a round of golf.

"Good morning, just on the golf course," he said in a video posted to TikTok. "I'm not sure where these rumours have come from, I'm certainly not on the lookout for a job.

"I've spoken about how much I love my role at Chelsea in the academy, working with the players in progressing them from the youth team, to reserves, to the first team, and the involvement I have in that."

"I've certainly not approached Oxford, not spoken to anybody at all, so I just want to completely rule myself out of it," he added. "I wish Oxford and whoever goes in as manager all the very best, but it certainly won't be me. Up the Chels."

Earlier this year, Terry spoke about the lack of opportunities to become a manager.

"I'm not sure it ever happens, to be honest. It's my one last dream I have at the football club. I've done everything at Chelsea. And for me now, the one thing that is missing is being the manager of the football club," he told The Mail.

"That's why I went into coaching when I finished playing. My idea and dream was to learn my trade a bit. As a player, you retire after 22 years… Listen, 100 per cent, you learn enough to go into management.

"The level I played at and the managers I played under. But it doesn't give you the right you go into management at a certain level. You still have to learn and understand what it takes.

"There's a lot more that goes into the coaching side of it. So I went away and learnt my trade, I had some unbelievable times at Villa, I left Villa to be a number one, I thought I was ready. I think I'd be a really good number one, I enjoyed the coaching side of it."

Terry continued: "I want people around me that are better coaches than me. Then I could lead the dressing room and the team like I did [as a player].

"That's what I did for 22 years at the club. I know I'd be good at it. Will I ever get the chance? I'm not sure, without doing the other bits. But when people tell you you've not got the experience, it's difficult to fathom."

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Terry thought his experience of coaching in the Premier League, as well as his elite playing career, would be enough to land him a job.

He added: "I'm not saying a job in the Premier League or the Championship - but a job at League One level. I didn't even get a sniff. I had interviews and it was just 'you have no experience'. When I see some people managing today, it baffles me, it really does.

"In terms of 'am I frustrated', yes, absolutely, because I have a lot of good attributes to be a really good coach or a really good manager but, unfortunately, that's not happened."