Terry backs boss over Chelsea row
Chelsea defender John Terry has backed boss Jose Mourinho's rotation policy after criticism from Arjen Robben.The Dutch winger was quoted on Saturday as saying that rotation was "bad for a player's confidence" - days after a similar outburst from Ricardo Carvahlo.
"There's such great competition in training every day, it's fantastic," Terry told BBC Radio Five Live.
"You've got so many good players just behind you. If you're not playing well, somebody as good as you can come in."
Terry denied that players were constantly in fear of being dropped by Mourinho.
"I think it's great the opportunity we have got at the club. If you play one bad game, I know the manager, he is not going to just drop you like that," he said.
"He realises what you can do and you can't play well all the time, he realises that. Obviously if you're playing badly for two or three games, you're going to be out of the side.
"Then it's down to you to impress the manager and get back in the team."
Terry added that he felt the team was being targeted by the media because they were champions.
"It's just paper talk because we did so well last season we are the team to upset. Everyone wants to unsettle us a little bit," he said.
"Players sat down with the manager we talked it through, and this was at the beginning of the season.
"Everybody knows their situation at the club, and their role."
Robben was quoted in Saturday's newspapers as saying: "If you play two or three matches and one match is bad, you are immediately on the bench and that's not good.
"It's bad for a player's self-confidence because you can't get a rhythm.
"The problem now is that if you have a dip in form or play badly then you are immediately replaced."
Earlier in the week, Carvalho spoke out about being left on the bench for Chelsea's game at Wigan.
Mourinho responded to Carvalho's comments by claiming that the player needed to take an IQ test, and the defender later issued an apology to the manager.
Robben, whose position is under threat after Chelsea's summer purchase of Shaun Wright-Phillips, could now face a similar frosty response.
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