Aston Villa assistant manager John Terry insists the England bust-up between Raheem Sterling and Joe Gomez has been overblown.

Former England captain Terry has offered his opinion on the matter that has dominated the airwaves and the back pages over the past week.

“I think nowadays people talk about players earning too much money, people not caring about football and they are in it for one thing… You've got two players (Sterling and Gomez) at probably the best-two clubs in the world at the minute, coming in a day later and caring about what happened the day before," Terry told Sport360.

“I quite like that. That shows passion for me, that shows that people care.

“Obviously, there is a boundary. He's (Sterling's), obviously, overstepped it and acknowledged that.

“But to ban him from the (Montenegro) game, I don't agree.

“If they are caring like that for their club and country, that's the way we want players."