Gerets expects Cisse stay

Marseille boss yet to receive offer that meets his valuation

By Patrick Haond   Last updated: 1st August 2008

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Cisse: Expected to stay

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Marseille head coach Eric Gerets expects Djibril Cisse to remain at the Stade Velodrome this season.

Cisse has been strongly linked with a transfer away from Ligue 1 this summer, following reports that he is keen to move back to the Premier League as his wife still lives in England.

Rumours of an approach from Serie A side Roma were rejected on Thursday, and now Gerets has expressed his belief that the 26-year-old striker, who signed permanently from Liverpool last summer, will not be leaving the club.

"In my head, he is staying, except if there is an offer of X million euros," said Gerets.

"But this offer is not coming. For some time, I have been left with the idea that he is going to stay at the club."