Chelsea go into the new campaign as Club World Cup winners.
And Terry believes Maresca will have no issue talking up their title chances this season. He told The Sun: “I really liked the honesty from the manager because the message is clear to the players. We’re not there yet.
“If you’re the manager now coming into that dressing room and you’re going, ‘We’ve got a chance this year’, the players will think we’ve got a chance. This year I think his message will be different.
“He was spot on because we were young, it was a little bit up and down last year. At the moment, we’re clearly building and moving in the right direction.
“I’m not sitting here saying I want to wait five years to win another Premier League. We’ve got to go into it 100 per cent with the mindset of going, ‘Yes, we have to try to win the league this year’.
“Without a shadow of a doubt. But there’s other big competitions as well.
“You fight right to the end until it’s not possible. The Premier League was done last season, Liverpool were very good last year and rightly the winners. We have to compete for that again.”