Hiddink is guiding Turkey through a Euro 2012 qualification campaign but has not dismissed out of hand a return to the role he filled on an interim basis after Luiz Felipe Scolari was dismissed early in 2009.
The 64-year-old Dutchman has already talked about his appetite for club football and a return to the Premier League club to work for owner Roman Abramovich would appeal having previously worked for him at Chelsea and indirectly for the Russian national team.
Abramovich supported Hiddink's dual role with both Chelsea and Russia through his financial support of the Russian team.
Hiddink, at a Turkey training camp, said of speculation linking him with Chelsea: ''If there was a concrete offer, then I would think about it.''
But Hiddink is unlikely to break his contract with Turkey, who face a crucial qualifier with Belgium in Brussels on Friday, with the nation in contention to finish second in Group A and secure a November play-off ahead of the finals in Poland and Ukraine.
However, Hiddink would not commit to a possible return to take over from Carlo Ancelotti.
He added: ''There's nothing concrete. You cannot go into all kind of speculation or rumours because there's nothing concrete. The moment things are concrete, I'll go to where I have to be, direct. First, get this game done next Friday, a difficult game, you know. Then we'll see.''
Former Chelsea striker Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink believes Hiddink would be the obvious replacement for Ancelotti at Stamford Bridge.
''I know him very well,'' he said. ''He was the one that gave me my first cap for Holland. He is a very intelligent football man and a very good football man.
''He has already been here at Chelsea and was a success, so I can understand him being the favourite.Guus has already proved himself, he has already been here.
Certainly, however, speaking at the Turks’ training camp, close to the Dutch border with Germany, Hiddink did little to dampen down the sense that he was expecting Abramovich to make an offer to return to the club he successfully led on an interim basis after Luiz Felipe Scolari was sacked in February 2009.
Crucially, Hiddink also spoke about his appetite for the game — and his desire to remain as a coach or manager rather than become a director of football as has also been mooted. “As long as I feel fresh, as long as young people, players, are not getting annoyed with me, and I’m always asking for signals regarding this — people getting sour or bitter or nasty as an attitude — then I will continue,” he said.
“So far, I feel energetic to go on. Sir Alex Ferguson is a lesson for us. I read that his wife told him to get lost, go, not to sit here in the garden and do the gardening. Get back to work. As long as you have this energy and you’re not repeating yourself, are keeping it fresh and the players and the people you’re dealing with are not turning away, then continue. You should walk away if they do start doing that, but I don’t feel it at this moment.”
Hiddink also dismissed the notion that he did not want to return to club football as a head coach. “When you’re working at a club with a lot of joy, then all of a sudden you say it might be good to be a national team manager because there you’ll be more flexible and you’ll have fewer games,” he explained. “But, when you’ve been working a long time with a national team and still have that energy — like, with this team, I’d like to work every day because I’d have more impact on them and their execution of games — then you like to work every day. I like to work every day. So, we’ll wait.
But the reaction here is rather up and down and, should we lose, I can imagine they would say it would be better if I quit. As they did when we lost to Germany and Azerbaijan. There are rumours, too, that it would be easier for me to leave if we lost to Belgium, but I've been in this business a long time. That is not influencing my approach to the team. The focus is on the job and this game. That's it."
The squad are already familiar with Hiddink, who has acted as an adviser to Abramovich on an ad hoc and unpaid basis since leaving Stamford Bridge in 2009, a loose arrangement he also enjoys with PSV. "The people at Chelsea, including the Boss (Abramovich), were always welcoming after I left," he added. "So, every now and then, we have contact."
The 2010 Premier League champions, who are looking for the seventh manager of Abramovich's eight-year ownership, dismissed Ancelotti after a trophyless season. They would prefer to secure Hiddink as a manager to oversee what will be a summer of relative upheaval at Stamford Bridge, potentially with the prospect of him becoming a director of football at some stage in the future with a younger coach recruited beneath him.
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