Englishman has been with the Blues now since 1998.
Long-serving Chelsea captain John Terry is said to now be resigned to the fact that he will be leaving Stamford Bridge at the end of the season when his current contract with the west London club runs out, according to reports in the Daily Mirror.
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The former England international has been at Stamford Bridge throughout his entire career to date, barring a brief six-game loan spell with Nottingham Forest in the 1999-2000 campaign that is.
However, with Terry’s present deal with the Blues now set to expire on June 30 2014, and the centre back still to have been offered a contract extension by the club to extend his stay in the capital into next season, the 33-year-old is now understood to already be preparing to end his 16-year association with Chelsea.
And that is because the two parties have so far been unable to come to any sort of agreement over a length of contract for the veteran central defender, with Terry and his camp wanting a three-year deal so that the player can then see out his career at the Bridge, while Chelsea have so far only been willing to offer their skipper a one-year extension.