Source: Daily_Mail
Yuri Zhirkov tells Chelsea: Play me or I may have to leave
Yuri Zhirkov will consider his future in January if he remains a bit-part player at Chelsea.[LNB]Leaving the Bridge? Yuri Zhirkov is unhappy at only being a bit-part plsyer at Chelsea[LNB]Zenit St Petersburg and Spartak Moscow are both monitoring the Russian, who saw his first season blighted by knee injuries after an £18million move to Stamford Bridge from CSKA Moscow last year.[LNB]As a left winger or full back, he is behind Ashley Cole and Florent Malouda at Chelsea and he said: 'I'll certainly get a chance in the next few months and I'll try to use it completely.[LNB]'Then, in the winter, everything will probably depend on whether I got this chance and how I used it.[LNB]'We are currently in brilliant form and getting past Malouda and Cole is problematic. Everyone understands about the competition: once you are on the bench you can be there for a long time. But I will definitely get a chance.[LNB]'The thoughts when you are watching your team play are always the same: you support, worry and your soul wants to be on the pitch to help.'[LNB]Before leaving CSKA, the 27-year-old was wary about ending up at a club where hewould be merely a squad player and Russia boss Dick Advocaat has concerns about players not playing regularly.[LNB]Zhirkov admitted before moving to Chelsea that he marvelled at AC Milan and Barcelona rather than English football when he was a youngster, and he has named his newborn daughter Milan.[LNB]But he joked: 'Now all I have to do is change my son's name to Milan and (AC Milan owner Silvio) Berlusconi will finally understand. I am joking, but all over the internet it will say that Zhirkov wants to go to AC Milan.'[LNB] Chelsea duo John Terry and Frank Lampard could make weekend West Ham crunchLukaku snubs Chelsea and Liverpool by admitting he'd rather move to RealChelsea boss Ancelotti tells England fans: You should respect Capello!Amazing adventures of Ashley! Our look at England's galloping left-backCHELSEA FC
