Former captain announced his return to the academy of the club just less than a month after his stint with .
The 42-year-old former England skipper returned to Chelsea in a coaching consultancy role in 2022 before joining Dean Smith’s backroom staff at Leicester in April this year.
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‘I’m delighted to be back Home working in the academy and continuing my role at the club,” Terry, who started his coaching career in 2018 as an assistant manager at Aston Villa, said in an Instagram post.
The former defender and five-time Premier League champion won every major trophy during his 19-year stint at Stamford Bridge, making him Chelsea’s most successful captain.
Terry returns to west London with Mauricio Pochettino now at the helm and his rebuilding project firmly underway.
The former Spurs boss was officially unveiled on Friday and was keen to stress the need for unity following a chaotic 18 months which has seen the club’s new ownership take a very public role in a scattergun recruitment policy that left Pochettino’s predecessor, Graham Potter, in an almost impossible situation.
Pochettino said he felt it was his responsibility to create the kind of culture where people clearly understand their place and function in the wider collective.
‘We need to understand that they own the football club,’ he said when asked whether the hierarchy would be welcome on his watch to address the players post-match.
‘We need to respect that. The thing is to talk about how we need to behave because that is an important thing.
‘The culture of football in England is a lot to understand. My responsibility also is to help and to add our knowledge and capacity to create this culture where everyone knows how to behave in different situations.
‘For me, more than welcome if the owner comes to the dressing room, to the training ground. But always they need to communicate with myself, I need to know, and to prepare the people to receive.
‘In here (the dressing room) it’s really special in England. Maybe in another country it’s different, but here it’s this way.
‘The manager has some influence in all football clubs, for the fans, for the players, for the staff and the media. Altogether we need to create this. We are there to guide all the people that are involved in this football club, to try to create the best atmosphere and try to work and perform in the best way.
‘I am more than happy if they are close to us. But they are the owners. The players, the fans, the media – the coach is who decides how things are going to work in the dressing room, on the pitch, on the training ground. Also with the sporting directors, we create the line to follow.’
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