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Chelsea<\/a> boss Andre Villas-Boas<\/a> has denied any knowledge of interest in Frank Lampard<\/a> from LA Galaxy<\/a> and insisted he believes the midfielder will ‘turn things around’.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 33-year-old, who is no longer a certain starter for England under coach Fabio Capello, was left out of the starting line-up for the Blues\u2019 vital final Champions League group game with Valencia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Villas-Boas\u2019 men triumphed 3-0 at Stamford Bridge to ensure qualification for the last-16, and the manager is adamant the former West Ham United player will stay and compete for a place in the team.<\/p>\n

Asked about speculation linking Lampard with a switch to the MLS, Villas-Boas told reporters: \u201cI have no idea. There is nothing from our side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of competence in the team. Everybody is challenging for their place. The conversation for Lamps is exactly the same for all of the players.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of them are competing to be the best, to be in the starting eleven. All of them deserve credit and he’ll turn things around for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two players whose future at the club Villas-Boas was happy to discuss were Brazilian defender Alex and French striker Nicolas Anelka, both of whom had transfer requests accepted recently.<\/p>\n

The former Porto manager admitted: \u201cIt’s a different situation [to Lampard] because it’s a transfer request that’s been accepted.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Alex] will be linked to everybody in the world because he’s a top quality player, and Nico is the same. He’s been linked to everybody. For sure it will continue until the transfer window opens.\u201d<\/p>\n

The players are currently not training with the first team but the former Porto boss refused to rule out the possibility in the future of them returning to the squad.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cNot at the moment but it doesn’t mean it can’t change. These are players of top integrity, top human values and we respect them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact for the group was tremendous. The group also misses their relationship with us but it’s something that we felt was for the benefit of the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, it can change from one week to another but at the moment that’s not likely.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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