Chelsea have rejected an offer by Manchester City for their captain, John Terry. The offer was thought to be in the region of the £30 million mark but it shows that City will have to work a lot harder if they are to sway the best players to move away from their established clubs.

City would probably have to double that sum of money to have any chance of signing Terry and then they would probably have to triple his wages. This is all because Terry has no obvious intent to leave the club where he has made his name. If you go and offer him twice the money he is earning now it won’t mean anything because he is settled down and established at a club that has proven it can win things.

Manchester City is still very much a work in progress and the players they have signed so far this summer prove the ambition that the new owners of the club have. However, as has been said so often in recent weeks, they cannot expect to sign the top level of player until they have proven that the club is established under the new rulers and has the ability to win things.

This means Champions League football. The top professional players like to win trophies and the majority would not move to another club for purely financial reasons. Fair enough, if you have the money and ability to try and make a move happen then you would be silly not to go for it but City will not get top players to just walk through the door at Eastlands.

However, all this considering, if City did somehow manage to get Terry to leave the West London club then it could be the making of the Mark Hughes revolution. Terry is one of those players that carries around a reputation, he is a well-liked and well-respected player. He has also been noted by many attacking players around the world as one of the hardest defenders to play against.

His serious ambition and nature could tempt other big name players into making moves and it would be fair to say that Terry could become the first real high calibre signing that City have come to make after, what is now, a long time with the new owners in through the door.

Sooner or later a big name player is going to move to City and that player will be followed by others but all Mark Hughes can do now is make the best squad out of the players that are available to him. This may mean that City fans have to wait one or two seasons in order to see their club become like their city rivals or like a Real Madrid but the point is that all of the tools are there for it to happen.

What Mark Hughes will be thinking is that if City can try and get Terry to join then he is just the sort of person and player to represent the club and every thing that it is about. He does not have an ego and he seems like a genuine, honest and hard working club man. The ideal type of individual you would want to represent your club when you are trying to sign that next level of player that may take just a little more persuasion than is normal. There is no doubt around the fact that Chelsea want to keep him and there does not seem any reason why he would want to move. There are rumblings about a few dressing room disagreements involving Terry at Chelsea but a move now would seem to defy logic.

First of all, he is Chelsea Football Club, he is one of the first people that you think of when you think of Chelsea and it is for this reason that if he is happy, he will not be going to another club for any amount of money. Furthermore, Carlo Ancelotti, has just arrived as the new manager and the club will looking to reinvent itself to get back to the success that was experienced during the Jose Mourinho era.

This means that Chelsea will be going through their own revolution, all be it on a smaller scale than at City, which means that they will want their captain to front it. Chelsea need one or two big names through the front door and they will not arrive unless they know that the captain and backbone of the team are equally strong.

Selling Terry would be an illogical and silly move. The only point at which he would and should leave the club is the point when he does not enjoy himself any more and is getting literally sick of life at Chelsea and everything connected with the club. For someone who is Mr. Chelsea, it is difficult to see when or how these days could even appear.

So even if City go away and come back with a £40 million bid, a £50 million bid or even greater, they will not get Terry to leave unless he wants out from a club that has built him up and made him into one of the most respectable defenders that has ever played world football.

To players like Terry wages do not matter, they are all about respect and representing what they believe in. Unless something has gone drastically wrong in West London then Terry will be pulling the captain’s arm band over the blue shirt of Chelsea in August and Blues fans every where will be able to breathe a massive sigh of relief as they look to win back their Premier League crown.

For City the options are simple, keep working hard on trying to sign better players. They already have a good playing staff and sooner or later someone will make the move. This can only increase the chances of success, which will in turn make it even easier to sign John Terry or Lionel Messi, but for now they may have to be content with the level just beneath this phenomenal pairing.