The veteran boss, who coached the Stamford Bridge club for the last half of the 2009/10 season and has acted as an advisor to the Blues since, has been installed as one of the frontrunners for the vacancy created by Carlo Ancelotti`s sacking last Sunday.

But Hiddink insists that he is not listening to the speculation linking him with the West London club, and is preferring to focus on Turkey`s upcoming European Championship qualifier with Belgium.

"I have heard a lot of rumours and speculation," Hiddink told the TV show %100 Futbol.

"I have told the players they must focus on Belgium and the same goes for me. I am fully focused on getting the team ready for next Friday.

"I have in my career very few games. I want to do more with the players on a daily basis but that is impossible because I am national team manager.

"But I am not going into the speculation as I have to prepare the team and to make sure that no one can blame me afterwards saying I was concentrating on other things.

"I am not going into speculation, I am fully concentrated. I demand full commitment from myself so I will not go into speculation.

"I am being forced by circumstances to go into a tunnel and exclude a little bit the outside world."