John
Terry has been urged to make a summer switch to China by former Chelsea
team-mate Demba Ba.
The Blues skipper's contract expires at the end of the season and the former
England defender told
Sky Sports News HQ last month that he was
still hoping for a new deal despite no indications yet from the club.
But Ba, who spent the 2013-14 season at Chelsea and signed for Shanghai
Shenhua from Besiktas last summer, says he should join him in the Chinese
Super League.
He told
The Sun newspaper: "If Eden Hazard was to ring, I'd tell
him not to be silly and stay where he is, but if John contacts me, I'd tell
him, 'Get on the next plane over here. What are you waiting for?'
"John is still a top player that can perform in any of Europe's top leagues,
so he doesn't need to come here. But, at the age of 35, he has nothing to
prove to anybody anymore and if he can get one last huge contract here, it
would be more than welcome to him I think.
"And it would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience to live in a completely
different culture."
Senegal international Ba has scored 10 goals in 14 appearances for Shenhua,
just one of a number of Super League sides making multi-million-pound
efforts to sign Europe's best talent.
Guangzhou Evergrande have recently signed Jackson Martinez and Paulinho, and
are managed by former Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari, while Hebei China
Fortune have Gervinho and Ezequiel Lavezzi.
And Ba says he is enjoying life in the Far East, adding: "The city is an
amazing place. Whenever you walk around the new city, it makes you feel like
you're in Europe to be honest.
"There is a false perception that China is backwards but some of the
neighbourhoods here look better than in France or England."
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