Marouane Fellaini having signed his new five-year deal
MAROUANE FELLAINI insists that he is unconcerned by the now customary summer transfer speculation suggesting his future may lie away from Goodison Park.
David Moyes has spoken of his desire to build a new Everton team around the towering Belgian, but weekend reports have already linked Fellaini with interest from Real Madrid and Chelsea.
Speaking to Belgian radio station RTBF, Fellaini declared: “Every year they say I’ll be transferred to the left or right. But I’m still at Everton!
“If an ambitious club comes in for me? Why not, just to gain experience, but I’m on vacation right now, I do not give speculation too much attention.
“If I have got to go, I will go, if not, I repeat, I am at Everton.
“I am ambitious; I want to play in the Champions League or in the Europa League.
“Last season we finished seventh with Everton, and we were not able to qualify us for Europe, which was a shame.
“If it comes, I take, if it does not come, I stay at Everton, where I am happy, and where I still have a four-year contract.”
Fellaini added that he remained unaware of any concrete offers for him.
“Everything goes fast in football,” he said “You can be transferred tomorrow, as you can be in one or two years. For now, I’m on vacation, I try to arrive fresh at the start of next season. If there are any concrete offers yet? If this is the case, I am not aware.”
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