Sunderland boss Steve Bruce
has revealed how he almost signed Chelsea captain John
Terry.
He could really do with Terry's leadership skills - and, when he
was boss at Huddersfield, he very nearly got them.
JT was on loan at Nottingham Forest in 2000 and Bruce explained:
"I went to do my coaching badges at Nottingham Forest.
"David Platt invited me and Gianluca Vialli there.
"It was a cold miserable afternoon and I saw John Terry in his short sleeves rolling his shirt
up, he was on loan there.
"I thought, 'Christ, he'll do me. I like him'.
"I was Huddersfield manager at the time. I bid £750,000 for him
and Chelsea accepted it.
"But the boy didn't want to leave Chelsea at the time.
"I was close. At the death he didn't want to go.
"He's everything you'd want in a central defender, he's a born
leader.
"On a day like today, a cold day in January, he was just like,
'Bring it on!'"