Harry Redknapp claims that Manchester City should have tried to sign Chelsea skipper John Terry in January.

The former Tottenham Hotspur manager believes that City's defensive frailties have cost them a lot of points in the Premier League race this season.

Terry is set to depart Stamford Bridge in the summer after Chelsea refused to offer him a new contract but Redknapp feels Manuel Pellegrini should have offered him a deal in the winter transfer window.

Redknapp told BT Sport: "If I had been at Man City, I'd have got on the phone on deadline day and tried to take John Terry now. I'd have said, 'If you ain't giving him another contract, we'll take him'.

"He could have won the league for Man City. "They wouldn't have got smashed up like they did by Leicester. He'd have marked Robert Huth better from set plays than whoever did on Saturday."