Shevchenko determined to make a go
at Chelsea
tribalfooball.com - December 14, 2006
Andriy Shevchenko has accepted that Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho can
drop him.
Shevchenko said "A great team cannot guarantee a starting place to
anybody. If you are not in a position of producing what the manager
asks of you, it is only right someone else plays in your
place.
"I am giving 100 per cent. We will see in the end if this is the
right place for me or not.
"The way Chelsea play is totally different from AC Milan. AC Milan
emphasises possession. At Chelsea the style is much faster.
"A person needs time to settle. Here all is new - the club, the
language, the way of playing. It is all different.
"Somebody who has made a precise choice, and left a great club
where he was happy for seven years to join another great club,
cannot give up like that. Even in spite of this difficult
moment
"I've no idea where all the rumours about me leaving Chelsea stem
from. There are difficult moments and easy moments but, when you
make a choice, you have to get to the end of it.
"Now I am at Chelsea and I have to adapt to their game and all that
the manager asks from me.
"When one decides to take a certain route, you must follow it to
the very end. Only at the end will I be able to see if things have
gone well or not."
Shevchenko accepts he has lost the scoring touch, having hit the
net only five times in 22 games.
But he added: "It is not that I do not score any longer. I do not
score as much or as regularly as before. I still score a few.
"We players are not machines. There are times when the wheel turns
in a different way. You have to have belief.
"I've said it before and I repeat it once and for all.
"I have great respect for AC Milan and its supporters. I send them
all a fond embrace and greetings, because they have remained in my
heart.
"But I have made a choice and it is not right that I should think
of going back on my tracks after three months.
"Over the past few months I've said very little - on purpose. I do
not want to go on about why and how I left AC Milan."
