City mega-deal is a real flirty business; RESULT!

Byline: DEREK McGOVERN; JOHN SHAW 

SURELY even John Terry will admit that at pounds 130,000 a week he's overpaid - but he's worth it.

By the time his Chelsea contract is up, he'll be able to buy his wife a private beauty parlour, his kids a personal playground and his mum her own supermarket.

Terry is chasing a payrise from the Blues by flirting elsewhere. It's an old tactic but it doesn't always work.

I once threatened to move to new paymasters if my weekly wage wasn't increased, but they called my bluff and said go right ahead. You can't fool those giro people.

JT's not-so-secret liaison with Manchester City boss Mark Hughes in the Middle East has convinced bookies that a move is imminent (for Chelsea fans that means close).

Sky Bet cut from 10-3 to 15-8 the odds about a Terry move to Eastlands, pushing him out to 1-3 to stay put. City say they are prepared to pay Terry what he is worth, but there's no way he'll accept that.

It's difficult to imagine an out-and-out Londoner like Terry being happy in Manchester, almost as difficult as imagining a Mancunian being happy there, in fact.

Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck is unlikely to be moving - the Buck stops here - and he has promised a marquee signing this summer, which is similar to a Mark Hughes signing only twice as cheap.

Franck Ribery is 2-1 from 12-1 to sign for Chelsea and the same odds to sign for the Hammers - that's the Hammer House Of Horrors.

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