Turkey coach Guus Hiddink expecting the call from Roman Abramovich to take manager seat at Chelsea

Guus Hiddink opened the door to a dramatic return to Chelsea when he admitted for the first time that he would welcome an offer to take over as the club’s next manager. “If there was a concrete offer, then I would think about it,”Guus Hiddink said.

Guus Hiddink : If there was a concrete offer, then I would think about it

That offer is due to be made next Saturday, the day after Turkey, the nation currently  Hiddink coaches, will play Belgium in a crucial Euro 2012 qualifier game in Brussels.

The expectation is that Hiddink who, as reported by NationalTurk, is Roman Abramovich’s first choice to succeed Carlo Ancelotti, will accept the call to take over. Last weekend Hiddink found the opportunity More than once to commit his future to Turkey beyond Friday’s match.

“There’s nothing 100%,” he insisted when asked about Chelsea. “You cannot go into all kind of speculation or rumours because there’s nothing concrete. The moment things are concrete, I’ll go to where I have to be. I have a good relationship .I talk every week with the president of the Turkish Football Federation about the future of ‘everything’. But, when things aren’t concrete, why should I go into speculation?”

Guus Hiddink :  I have a good relation with President of Turkish Football Federation

Thing are complicated because there are presidential votes for the federation next month ın Turkey and the incumbent
Mahmut Özgener, with whom Guus Hiddink has a strong understanding, may not keep his position. “Whatever’s going on, I have a good relationship with the president. He’s a very modern-thinking guy,” he said.

Chelsea sources are hopeful that Hiddink, 64, will sign a two-year contract although the club, and owner Abramovich, are sensitive not to push too hard in case the deal fails. “Let’s see what happens after next Friday’s game,” one Chelsea source said on Friday night. “We cannot be sure until he walks through the door.”

It was a view echoed by Hiddink himself. “First, get this game done next Friday, a difficult game, you know. Then we’ll see,” he said. “I tried to plan when I was working in Spain in the mid-Nineties, and thought I’d do one more year and then go into another sports-related business. That was my plan, but now we’re 15 years on. The plan didn’t work.”

Certainly, however, speaking at the Turks’ training camp, close to the Dutch border with Germany, Guus Hiddink did little to dampen down the sense that he was expecting Abramovich to make an offer to return to the club he successfully led on an interim basis after Luiz Felipe Scolari was sacked in February 2009.

Crucially, Hiddink also spoke about his appetite for the game — and his desire to remain as a coach or manager rather than become a director of football as has also been mooted. “As long as I feel fresh, as long as young people, players, are not getting annoyed with me, and I’m always asking for signals regarding this — people getting sour or bitter or nasty as an attitude — then I will continue,” he said.

Guus Hiddink also dismissed the suggestion he could combine working for Chelsea while remaining as Turkey’s coach — as he did last time round when he led Russia.

Guus Hiddink : We’ll play this game and then we’ll see

Hiddink’s advisers have warned that he will not break his €4 million-a-year (net) contract with Turkey, which takes him up until the end of this qualifying campaign. The target is to reach the November play-offs, and Turkey are in contention for second-place in Group A although that would be damaged by defeat to Belgium. However, that would change if he reached an agreement to go.

Asked what he expected the Turkish media reaction would then be, Hiddink said: “It’s always rather up and down — I don’t read much — but I can imagine that they would say it would be better to quit, as they did after we lost in Germany and Azerbaijan.” He then added: “We’ll play this game and then we’ll see.”

It s speculated that Chelsea owner millioner Roman Abramovich has to pay pretty handsomely, if Guus Hiddink should leave Turkey National Team and ink with Chelsea after 3.June Belgium Turkey Euro 2012 Qualifier game.

 

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