NFT supporter John Terry responds to Premier League rumours with snarky tweet – Thick Accent

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The pop­u­lar­i­ty of NFTs (Non-Fun­gi­ble Tokens) have shot over the roof in the last few months and foot­ballers too have played a big role in pro­mot­ing it. A host of foot­ballers such as Paul Pog­ba, Ney­mar, Andrew Robert­son to name a few, have tak­en to Twit­ter to show­case their pur­chas­es of these much sought after dig­i­tal assets.

Chelsea leg­end John Ter­ry too shared his NFT of a lit­tle mon­key in full Chelsea kit with the captain’s arm­band how­ev­er, the Eng­lish­man is cur­rent­ly under inves­ti­ga­tion from UEFA and oth­er gov­ern­ing bod­ies over copy­right infringe­ment for pro­mot­ing NFTs.

As clubs and gov­ern­ing bod­ies such as FIFA and UEFA have rights over the usage of the club logo, UEFA badges etc. in oth­er dig­i­tal avenues, Ter­ry has come under fire for pro­mot­ing dig­i­tal token projects. 

But it seems Ter­ry would be able to have the last laugh here as new reports sug­gest that the Pre­mier League is cur­rent­ly in talks with NFT mak­ers for an offi­cial­ly licensed col­lec­tion of dig­i­tal tokens.

In light of this report, Ter­ry took to Twit­ter to defend his project and prove all NFT doubters wrong as he wrote: “At first they laugh at you…Then they fol­low you”.

Accord­ing to the Dai­ly Mail report, PL author­i­ties are in talks for a deal worth over £400m with sev­er­al com­pa­nies. One of the com­pa­nies in the run­ning for the part­ner­ship is the France based com­pa­ny, Sorare which are cur­rent­ly fac­ing enquiries from the Gam­bling Com­mis­sion for run­ning dig­i­tal projects with­out the prop­er licenses.

Terry’s tweet was aimed at the dou­ble stan­dards dis­played by foot­balling author­i­ties and orga­ni­za­tions. The addi­tion of offi­cial licens­es for NFTs would bring in large amounts of fresh income for the clubs and foot­balling bod­ies. But this poten­tial for dig­i­tal projects was only real­ized thanks to indi­vid­ual play­ers such as Ter­ry who have been pro­mot­ing NFTs for some time now.

Ter­ry has by now estab­lished him­self as a big sup­port­er of NFTs and would def­i­nite­ly be a valu­able con­tact to have for Chelsea if the PL project pulls through. 



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