John Terry sign a new one-year contract

 Terry is pictured alongside Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck (left), technical director Michael Emenalo and each of the trophies he has won with the Blues during a photocall last year

 Terry will add to his 703 appearances for his boyhood club after agreeing new terms with Chelsea this week

The 35-year-old had previously been resigned to leaving the club which he joined when he left school.

A club statement on Wednesday confirmed the news that the ex-England skipper had signed.

‘I am delighted to sign a new contract with the club,’ he said. ‘Everyone knows I’m Chelsea through and through.

‘I am looking forward to next season under the new manager and hopefully we can make it a successful one.

‘Also, a special mention to the fans for their continued support. You’re the best in the world.’

It completes a remarkable turn of events since Terry was summoned to Stamford Bridge last week for a meeting with Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia.

The 35-year-old had been resigned to leaving the club he joined from school and had even started to organise his farewell, hiring the pitch for a farewell game and party with family and friends.

His agents had been instructed to assemble a list of options after meetings in January when the club asked Terry to be patient because the next manager would need to have an input.

They told him his future was part of the broader recruitment strategy but Terry was clearly unimpressed, since this had not stopped Gary Cahill and Branislav Ivanovic signing new contracts after Jose Mourinho’s sacking.

The Chelsea captain was left with the feeling that he was unwanted and, after an FA Cup tie in Milton Keynes on January 31, revealed he would not be offered a contract and would leave at the end of the season.

‘It’s not going to be a fairytale,’ Terry said. ‘I’m not going to retire at Chelsea. I was in last week before the Arsenal game and it’s not going to be extended.

‘They said that, when the new manager comes in, things might change but it’s a ‘no’ at the minute. I needed to know now, like I have done every January and sometimes it takes a couple of months to get done. Unfortunately it was a ‘no’.

‘I’m going to be playing out my career elsewhere, which it took me a couple of days to get over. But, like I say, I knew before the Arsenal game and my performance isn’t going to change: the way I train, what I give for the club. I want to give everything and finish on a high, on 100 per cent good terms with the club.’

Antonio Conte was confirmed as the next Chelsea manager in April and came to London for meetings with Terry and other players. Still, there were no contract talks for the captain.

When he was sent off at Sunderland on May 7, incurring a two-match ban which ruled him out of the end of the season, he trudged off like a man who had played his last game for Chelsea.

But, 24 hours later, he appeared in Denmark, watching Brondby because he is good friends with the club’s owner and said in an interview that he still hoped he might stay at Stamford Bridge.

Terry was called for a meeting with Granovskaia on Wednesday last week when Guus Hiddink and the team had travelled to Liverpool for the penultimate game of the season.