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Klopp rules out Chelsea move

Last Updated: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:00
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Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp has dismissed rumours linking him with Chelsea and says he is going nowhere.

Klopp has worked wonders during his five-year tenure with Dortmund, guiding them to two Bundesliga titles, and it comes as no surprise to see him linked with a move to Stamford Bridge.

Doubts remain over the long-term future of Rafa Benitez with Roman Abramovich is weighing up his options, while Real Madrid are also being linked with a move for Klopp.

However, the 45-year-old has dismissed all the rumours and says he will honour his contract with Dortmund.

"I have a contract until 2016. I have said 20 times I'll definitely stay until 2016. Everybody thinks I say it but that if a club like Chelsea or Real Madrid come in for me, I will go. This is something I can't change but they will see," he told the London Evening Standard.

"It is a really big honour for me, ­coming from a small village called Bretten in the Black Forest where 1,500 people live, that somebody thinks I can train Chelsea. It's not a normal story, it's a special story. But I don't think about it.

"I was the coach at Mainz before Dortmund for seven years. Each year I could have left for a Bundesliga club but I said 'no, I have a contract, I will stay'. I enjoy what I'm doing here at Dortmund. It's a great club, a great city, everything is okay."

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