He noted, “Terry has been the key figure in the team that will win the title this year; a key figure because Chelsea are essentially a defensive team.”
However, the former Manchester United midfielder does not believe that the 34-year-old Chelsea captain would be the right choice to win the award. That honour in his opinion belongs to another Chelsea player, the little Belgian Eden Hazard.
He stated: “[Hazard is] not streets ahead of the likes of Harry Kane, and nothing like the wow-factor of those two big players at Barcelona and Real Madrid. But Hazard has made the difference in big games, like the one against Manchester United.
“If I were to place the six shortlisted players, plus Terry, in order, I would rank them like this: 1) Hazard; 2) Kane; 3) Terry; 4) David de Gea; 5) Philippe Coutinho; 6) Alexis Sanchez; 7) Diego Costa.”
John Terry and Paul Scholes played for rivals in the Premier League but were England team-mates for a couple of years in the early 2000s
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