Anelka happy to be team player

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By Rob Parrish   Last updated: 1st April 2008

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Anelka: Team player

It will be the same until the end of my contract. I'm just pleased to be here and playing for Chelsea and will try my best all the time.

Nicolas Anelka.
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Nicolas Anelka is happy to accept whatever role he is handed as Chelsea chase UEFA Champions League glory.

The France striker returns to former club Fenerbahce for the first leg of the Blues' quarter-final meeting on Wednesday night, live on Sky Sports 3.

Anelka joined the Stamford Bridge outfit for £15million from Bolton in January and has had to settle for spells out on the wing or on the bench with Didier Drogba the preferred lone striker.

But the former Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Madrid and PSG striker insists he has no problem with not being an automatic first choice and will do whatever it takes to help the team succeed.

Help

He said: "I'm very new at the club so I need to get used to my team-mates and learn the way we play.

"It's not difficult, when the manager asks me to play I play, when he asks me to be on the bench I try to help the team when I go on.

"It will be the same until the end of my contract. I'm just pleased to be here and playing for Chelsea and will try my best all the time.

"When we have the chance to play together we will do it the best we can, it will be good. But you have a manager who decides what to do and I think he knows what to do.

"For the moment he wants to play three (forwards) and me on the left or right so I will do my best to play in that position.

"We have to work also in training. Chelsea play with one striker up front so first we have to do it in training and after we will do it in a game. As long as we are winning..."

Quality

Anelka enjoyed Champions League glory with Real and believes Chelsea have the strength in depth to be crowned champions of Europe.

He added: "Like Real Madrid we are a big club with a big squad and big players.

"It's always difficult to win the Champions League but I think we have the quality to win this title because of the way we play and the number of big players we have."