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By George Smith John Terry has revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson made weekly phone calls in a bid to take him to Manchester United. Terry spent 22 years at Chelsea, joining them at the age of 14 in 1995, and is considered one of the club’s greatest players, having made 717 first-team appearances and won 17 major trophies. He moved to the Blues’ academy from West Ham, but things could have been very different if Fergie had got his way, with the iconic Scottish manager calling Terry’s family home every week to monitor his progress. Despite United ‘rolling out the red carpet’ to secure his signatur…

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