{"id":12173,"date":"2011-05-30T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=12173"},"modified":"2011-05-30T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:51:44","slug":"hiddink-waits-for-the-call-from-abramovich-12173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/hiddink-waits-for-the-call-from-abramovich-12173\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiddink waits for the call from Abramovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/guus-hiddink_chelsea_turkey_nationalturk_009.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey coach Guus Hiddink expecting the call from Roman Abramovich to take manager seat at Chelsea\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>Turkey coach Guus Hiddink expecting the call from Roman Abramovich to take manager seat at Chelsea<\/h1>\n<p>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\u2019s next manager. \u201cIf there was a concrete offer, then I would think about it,\u201dGuus Hiddink said.<\/p>\n<h2>Guus Hiddink : If there was a concrete offer, then I would think about it<\/h2>\n<p>That offer is due to be made next Saturday, the day after Turkey, the nation currently \u00a0Hiddink coaches, will play Belgium in a crucial Euro 2012 qualifier game in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The expectation is that Hiddink who, as reported by <strong>NationalTurk<\/strong>, is Roman Abramovich\u2019s first choice to succeed Carlo Ancelotti, will accept the call to take over. Last weekend Hiddink found the opportunity\u00a0More than once\u00a0to commit his future to Turkey beyond Friday\u2019s match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing 100%,\u201d he insisted when asked about Chelsea. \u201cYou cannot go into all kind of speculation or rumours because there\u2019s nothing concrete. The moment things are concrete, I\u2019ll go to where I have to be. I have a good relationship .I talk every week\u00a0with the president of the Turkish Football Federation about the future of \u2018everything\u2019. But, when things aren\u2019t concrete, why should I go into speculation?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Guus Hiddink : \u00a0I have a good relation with\u00a0President of\u00a0Turkish Football Federation<\/h3>\n<p>Thing are complicated because there are presidential votes for the federation next month \u0131n Turkey and the incumbent<br \/>\nMahmut \u00d6zgener, with whom Guus Hiddink has a strong understanding, may not keep his position. \u201cWhatever\u2019s going on, I have a good relationship with the president. He\u2019s a very modern-thinking guy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u201cLet\u2019s see what happens after next Friday&#8217;s game,\u201d one Chelsea source said on Friday night. \u201cWe cannot be sure until he walks through the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a view echoed by Hiddink himself. \u201cFirst, get this game done next Friday, a difficult game, you know. Then we\u2019ll see,\u201d he said. \u201cI tried to plan when I was working in Spain in the mid-Nineties, and thought I\u2019d do one more year and then go into another sports-related business. That was my plan, but now we\u2019re 15 years on. The plan didn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, however, speaking at the Turks\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially, Hiddink also spoke about his appetite for the game \u2014 and his desire to remain as a coach or manager rather than become a director of football as has also been mooted. \u201cAs long as I feel fresh, as long as young people, players, are not getting annoyed with me, and I\u2019m always asking for signals regarding this \u2014 people getting sour or bitter or nasty as an attitude \u2014 then I will continue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Guus Hiddink also dismissed the suggestion he could combine working for Chelsea while remaining as Turkey\u2019s coach \u2014 as he did last time round when he led Russia.<\/p>\n<h4>Guus Hiddink :\u00a0We\u2019ll play this game and then we\u2019ll see<\/h4>\n<p>Hiddink\u2019s advisers have warned that he will not break his \u20ac4 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.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he expected the Turkish media reaction would then be, Hiddink said: \u201cIt\u2019s always rather up and down \u2014 I don\u2019t read much \u2014 but I can imagine that they would say it would be better to quit, as they did after we lost in Germany and Azerbaijan.\u201d He then added: \u201cWe\u2019ll play this game and then we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guus Hiddink expecting the call from Roman Abramovich to take manager seat at Chelsea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":12174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,135,127,173,1633,14],"tags":[15588,15686,5064,5065,15689,15690],"class_list":["post-12173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-football","category-sport","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-sport","category-world","tag-guus-hiddink-chelsea","tag-guus-hiddink-roman-abramovich","tag-guus-hiddink-turkey","tag-guus-hiddink-turkey-coach","tag-hiddink-abramovich","tag-hiddink-mahmut-ozgener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}