chelsea sedang memasang sinyal yang kuat terhadap transfer target Hulk yang telah mengakui ia bisa saja tertarik dan membuat keputusan untuk pindah dari porto.
menakjubkan: fc porto hulk telah menawarkan £87.5million untuk pindah ke chelsea dan jika itu terjadi membuat striker fc porto tersebut menjadi pemain termahal di dunia dan pembelian termahal bagi chelsea.
tetapi bagaimanapun ia tidak memaksa untuk pindah.
'aku telah di fc porto selama 3 tahun, dan walaupun dimana-mana ada berbagai macam spekulasi tentang diriku tetapi aku tetap akan fokus kepada klub ku sendiri. aku mempunyai kontrak disini selama 5 tahun. jika aku nantinya kan pindah, aku mau. tetapi aku sangat optimis dengan masa depan ku'.
'porto menghargaiku €100m (£87.6m) dan itu mungkin akan menjadi pemecahan record transfer termahal di seluruh dunia, tetapi aku lebih baik membuktikannya di lapangan dan saya akan selalu buktikan kemampuan saya kepada diri sendiri'.
Villas-Boas happy to risk Drogba exit
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Chelsea may be trying to balance the books, again, but they are prepared to risk losing four leading players on free transfers next summer rather than sell them in January, Andre Villas-Boas indicated yesterday.
Chelsea's manager added he would be happy to continue playing the quartet as he was confident their emotional ties to the club meant their performance levels would not drop.
Nicolas Anelka, Salomon Kalou, Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa are all out of contract at the end of the season, and all but Anelka, who will be 33 by then, have been offered new deals. Drogba and Kalou will, like Anelka, be free to talk to other clubs in January if they do not agree terms before then. Bosingwa cannot talk to other clubs until April because of an option on his contract. The four cost £64m and would be worth close to £30m even in January, but Villas-Boas said: "We won't need to sell them."
He added: "The most important thing is for the club to defend its interests. We know these players are of higher importance. That's why the offers are on the table – apart from with Anelka. We will try to get them to reach an agreement. We have plenty of time"
Villas-Boas said he would be happy to play them in the New Year regardless of whether they had signed or not. "Even if it reaches that situation, their personality, and the fact that they – Nico too – are emotionally tied to this club, means we can count on them while they are negotiating. Their loyalty to the club will never be in question. "
To lose all three forwards would be careless, but Anelka and Drogba are clearly on the downward slope of their careers while Kalou has rarely managed to hold down a regular place. Meanwhile, Daniel Sturridge and Romelu Lukaku are developing fast and there is, of course, £50m Fernando Torres to be fitted in. Bosingwa has probably only been offered another year's extension so may seek a long-term deal elsewhere given he will be 30 next season. Drogba, who has scored nine goals in the last seven matches against Everton, will play against them today as Torres is suspended.
Everton hope to include Jack Rodwell after his red card against Liverpool on 1 October was rescinded, not that this was much consolation to manager David Moyes. Rodwell was dismissed by Martin Atkinson with the Merseyside derby goalless. Everton lost 2-0 and Moyes said: "It was a big derby game and we wanted to try to win it. The hardest thing is that every person I meet in the street comes up and says: 'It was the worst decision I've ever seen.' That doesn't make it any better because I can't do anything about winning the game."
Moyes noted with surprise that Atkinson is in charge of a Premier League match today (Stoke City v Fulham). sumber
The versatile attacker has disclosed that he rejected a move to England in 2010, and also scuppered rumours of a falling out with team-mate Arjen Robben
After winning the Golden Boot award at the 2010 World Cup, the rising star became a coveted asset in England, and was reported to be on the wish-lists of a number of clubs, including the Stamford Bridge side and Manchester United. The 22-year-old was flattered, but passed on a chance to leave his homeland.
"After the World Cup I refused several offers, including one from Chelsea," he told Sport-Bild. "It was an honour because this does not happen every day.
"But I did not think it made sense to make the move at such a young age."
According to Muller, a move to England at just 20 years of age would have put into doubt his chances of first-team football.
"A change would have been nonsense after my first year as a pro. At my age you have to play."
Instead, Muller is satisfied with Bayern and, as he puts it, can "see no reason to believe that this will change some day."
"I simply feel comfortable here," he added. "You can almost say that I'm 'living' FC Bayern."
The versatile attacker also quashed rumours of a falling-out with Arjen Robben, months after the Dutch winger slapped him during a game, citing his own aggressive behaviour on the pitch.
"If something is wrong, we have to address it. I also tell my defenders that they should curse the s*** out of me when I'm not doing my defensive work.
"I don't mind when [right-back] Rafinha gets angry and verbally attacks me."
In August of 2010, Muller put an early end to doubts over his future as he signed a contract extension with Bayern, which is due to see him remain in Munich until 2015. Since breaking into the Bayern first team in 2009, he has made 113 appearnces, scoring 41 goals. sumber
All of Chelsea's players who featured in Euro 2012 qualifiers on Friday are either qualified or remain in contention for next summer's tournament. Three were among the night's scorers.
With sides topping their groups automatically making it through and second-placed sides going into play-offs next month, our England players guaranteed their place, our Spanish and Dutch players were already there but the rest need results to go their way on Tuesday.
England got the away point they needed and they would have taken all three points had it not been for a stoppage-time equaliser by Montenegro, the first team to prevent England from winning away from Wembley in the campaign.
'We are a little bit disappointed after being 2-0 up in the way we ended up drawing the game but it is great where we have got to, we are top of group and we have worked hard all the way through,' said John Terry who skippered his national side for the whole match.
'Maybe it was too easy for us and we let them into the game at the end of the first half when they scored.'
England finish their campaign with 18 points from eight games, six clear of Montenegro who are in the play-offs. They have one qualifier still to play.
Ashley Cole also played the full match; Frank Lampard came on after 65 minutes for Darren Bent, one of the first-half scorers with Ashley Young having opened England's account. Wayne Rooney was sent off on 74 minutes so will miss the start of Euro 2012.
Branislav Ivanovic scored the goal that gave Serbia hope of still making the Finals although they still have work to do to make the tournament in Poland and Ukraine next summer.
Serbia recovered strongly at home after conceding an early goal against Italy. Ivanovic deflected a shot past Gianluigi Buffon on 26th minute for a 1-1 draw. The Chelsea defender and his team-mates must now beat Slovenia away on Tuesday to guarantee a play-off place, Italy having already secured top spot.
Juan Mata scored past Petr Cech after just seven minutes in Prague as Spain won 2-0. The reigning European champions were already certain of first place in their group but that didn't stop Chelsea's summer signing finding the net after a typical short-passing move. Fernando Torres was back in the Spain starting line-up and he was involved the move that ended with Xabi Alonso scoring a second goal, but was subbed on 61 minutes before the Czechs were reduced to 10 men.
Cech's nation missed out on the last World Cup and now they sit just two points ahead of Scotland in the race for a Euros play-off place. Scotland play away in Liechtenstein on Saturday and then away to Spain on Tuesday. Czech Republic have one more game, away to Lithuania on Tuesday.
Florent Malouda was another Chelsea player on target on Friday night, beginning a 3-0 win for France at home to Albania by converting a low cross at the far post on 11 minutes. France need a point from their final game for top spot ahead of Tuesday's opponents Bosnia and Herzegovina who play in Paris.
Raul Meireles played the first hour of Portugal's eventful 5-3 win over Iceland in Porto that leaves them needing a point from their final game to guarantee their place at the Finals. Portugal wrap up the group with a match away to second-place Denmark on Tuesday.
Jeffrey Bruma played the full match for the already-qualified Netherlands as they made it a perfect nine wins out of nine with a 1-0 home win over Moldova.
Romelu Lukaku and Thibaut Courtois were unused subs by Belgium as they beat Kazakhstan 4-1 at home to set a target of three points from a match away to group winners Germany to guarantee a play-off place.
David Luiz played the whole of a friendly win for Brazil in Costa Rica, Santos striker Neymar scoring the only goal.
In the week's Under 21 internationals, Josh McEachran came on with 63 minutes played of England Under 21s 3-0 away win in Iceland, all the goals scored by that point.
Oriol Romeu played the full match as Spain Under 21s won 2-0 away in Croatia, and Patrick van Aanholt was part of a 1-0 success for the Netherlands U21s in Austria. Gael Kakuta played 68 minutes of France's 2-0 home win against Kazakhstan. Rhys Taylor was an unused sub as Wales lost 3-1 in Montenegro.
England Under 19s won their second game in a four-team tournament in France on Friday, beating Portugal 1-0 with Nathaniel Chalobah and Todd Kane in the team. Jamal Blackman remained on the bench.
Philipp Prosenik played for Austria Under 19s in a 0-0 draw against Albania.
