John Terry must demand a move from Chelsea if he is to join Manchester City.
The Mail on Sunday says City will make one last effort to prise England captain John Terry from Chelsea with a £35million bid and wages of £200,000 per week.
But Terry will be told by new Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti that he must put in a formal transfer request if he wants to leave Stamford Bridge.
City are refusing to be put off by Chelsea's insistence that Terry is not for sale and believe a transfer fee of £35m, plus an astronomical wage offer - albeit lower than the reported £300,000-per-week - could be enough to seal the summer's most sensational transfer.
Ancelotti, who will be officially unveiled as manager tomorrow, will put the ball firmly in Terry's court. The England captain, who currently earns about £140,000 a week in his current deal which runs until 2012, has yet to reaffirm his commitment to Chelsea.
The Terry camp appear to be encouraging the view he could leave Stamford Bridge for the new team of stars being assembled by City boss Mark Hughes and their billionaire owners from Abu Dhabi, who are preparing a quickfire £200m spree on transfer fees and wages unprecedented in English football.
