Turkey say coach Guus Hiddink will not return to Chelsea

Posted Friday, April 15, 2011 by theguardian.com

• Clause in contract prevents joint club and country role
• Chelsea thought to be keen for Hiddink to return

Guus Hiddink is understood to be on Chelsea's radar, with speculation Carlo Ancelotti will leave the club at the end of the season.

Turkey will not look favourably upon any attempt by Chelsea to take their national coach, Guus Hiddink, back to Stamford Bridge. Hiddink had a brief spell in charge of Chelsea when he was also coach of Russia in 2009, but that is not a situation the Turkish Football Federation would be keen to replicate.

As the current Chelsea manager, Carlo Ancelotti, continued to be linked with a move away from the club at the end of a below-par season, Turker Tozar, Turkey's senior national team communications manager, was quoted by the Daily Telegraph as saying: "Only last week we refused an approach for him from Ajax and the contract between him and our president [Mahmut Ozgener] does not allow him to work for a club while he is working for the Turkish national team.

"There is a specific clause and our president would look coldly at any attempt to change that. We understand that people like Roman Abramovich have him in mind but if he made an offer to us it would be refused. If you look at Guus Hiddink's career, he has always fulfilled his contract and he has also told us that Turkey could be his last stop as a coach. We would like him to take us to the 2014 World Cup finals."

Hiddink has also indicated that he has no intention of moving back to Chelsea.