'I get frustrated' - John Terry's brutal Chelsea prediction as he lays out timeline to Premier League glory for Enzo Maresca's side

Terry spoke about his former side Chelsea's chances of winning Premier League again, brutally admitting that Enzo Maresca's troops still have a long way to go before they can clinch the coveted trophy.

Chelsea's latest Premier League win came at the end of the 2016-17 season, when they collected 93 points under Antonio Conte. Since then, the Blues have missed out on Champions League football thrice, even hitting the embarrassing low of finishing 12th in the 2022-23 season. This season, they finished fourth under Maresca.

“I get frustrated because I want Chelsea to be winning the biggest trophies. Are we close? I think we are still a few years away from competing for the Premier League again," Terry acknowledged in an interview with the Mirror.

"We need to catch Arsenal, Man City and Liverpool to even have a chance of doing that. I think we need experience. I think it’s through winning. If we’re competing for a top striker, a top keeper, I know where I’d be going.

“Fans need to understand that to sign top players and improve your group then you have to attract the best players then you have to win and compete for the biggest trophies. That’s the Champions League, the Premier League and we’re not doing that at the minute. We probably have to say: ‘we’ll take the second best striker, the third best striker, whatever that looks like.’ That’s where we are.

“That’s probably why we’ve gone down the younger route at the minute and we haven’t got players of the calibre of Didier, Hazard and these guys wanting to come to Chelsea because we are the best and we are guaranteed to win a trophy.”

The Blues will be aiming to gain momentum ahead of the 2025-26 season by winning the Club World Cup. They will be playing their opening game of the tournament on Friday, June 20, against Brazilian side Flamengo.