Hughes: Terry may welcome a "new challenge" at City

Sources : Soccernet Staff

Mark Hughes has confirmed Manchester City could make a third bid for John Terry and said the England captain may welcome a "a change of scenery".

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Terry is training with Chelsea ahead of a their American tour
The Citizens remain optimistic that Terry wishes to join them given the England skipper is said to be unhappy at the failure of Chelsea to sign the high-profile targets they were looking for this summer. Terry is yet to make a public statement on the matter, giving rise to speculation that he may yet join City's big-spending "project".

Hughes has been a fan of Terry since his own spell at Chelsea well over a decade ago and described him as an "outstanding player and an outstanding person" and admitted he may make another offer for the tough-tackling central defender.

He continued: "I've thought that since I first met him when he was a young boy at Chelsea and I was a player there, and if the opportunity has presented itself to bring a player of that calibre to the club we will try our hardest to do it. We've already had conversations with Chelsea to that regard and we would like the opportunity to speak to John Terry now."

"We made an offer and Chelsea made their view plain, we have to respect that," said Hughes. "But in the future we may revisit it."

The Welshman compared Terry's potential departure from Chelsea, his sole club so far in his career, to his own leaving of Manchester United in 1995 after a near-15-year association. He said: "It is not a question of finance, or money, it is about a different challenge, and John being at a different stage in his life and his career, and maybe that is why there hasn't been a response [to commit himself to Chelsea] because John is seriously thinking in those terms. I went through that process myself as a player and I can understand if that is the way he is thinking."

Terry is due to fly out to the USA ahead of Chelsea's pre-season tour, which includes World Football Challenge matches with AC Milan, Inter Milan and Club America.

Tuesday saw City capture Carlos Tevez and make significant steps towards the purchase of Emmanuel Adebayor from Arsenal