{"id":530937,"date":"2026-04-14T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:49:08","slug":"john-terry-attends-colchester-united-game-after-takeover-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530937\/","title":{"rendered":"John Terry attends Colchester United game after takeover report"},"content":{"rendered":"

A deal with the US-based Lightwell Sports Group<\/a> fell through in June last year and in January, Colchester were in talks with the Sports Alpha Capital consortium which included former AC Milan and Brazil forward Alexandre Pato.<\/p>\n

They later withdrew their interest<\/a>, saying: “SAC will continue to explore future opportunities within English football while maintaining a lasting respect and affection for Colchester United and its supporters.”<\/p>\n

Terry played almost 500 games, and won 78 international caps, during a playing career which ended in 2018 following a season at Aston Villa.<\/p>\n

He won multiple trophies with Chelsea, including five Premier League titles and five FA Cups, plus the Champions League in 2012.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Monday, Aaron Jay, who runs the Beyond the Barside podcast, external<\/a>, told the BBC: “I think Colchester United fans have been really eager for this sort of takeover to be done for the past year or so.<\/p>\n

“To be at a point where we’re nearly there and there’s nearly something happening is exciting for a lot of U’s fans.”<\/p>\n

Colchester are competing in their 10th season in a row in the fourth tier of English football, having been as high as the Championship as recently in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deal with the US-based Lightwell Sports Group fell through in June last year and in January, Colchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}