Mourinho - No offers for Gallas

14 April 2012

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is willing to work with William Gallas again and revealed that no club has yet tabled a bid for the defender.

Mourinho accused the France international of showing a lack of respect after failing to report for pre-season training in Los Angeles.

The 28-year-old Gallas has one year left on his contract, and Mourinho said: "We've had no offers for him. We negotiated a player - (Andriy) Shevchenko - with Milan and they never wanted to involve William Gallas in the deal, never mentioned him. We've had no offers so William Gallas remains a Chelsea player."

The former Porto manager added: "He should have come in the same day as Michael Ballack and Mikel John Obi and he didn't.

"He will train in London with a personal trainer until we arrive back and on Monday he will join the group.

"What he did was a lack of respect to the family. But in families, sometimes, people make mistakes and you have to be able to solve the problem the best you can.

"So until we get an offer he remains a Chelsea player and from Monday he will work with us.

"He is a Chelsea player because we have had no offers. You can tell me everyone - Barcelona, Real Madrid, Milan or Inter - wants him but the fact is we have no offers. That is the pure truth.

"We have not even had a bad offer but if we have a good offer we can think about it.

"We haven't had an offer to refuse so he is a Chelsea player."

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