Gilberto talks about a new contract
May 23, 2005
Following the Telegraphs report of a Gilberto contract extension, Silva had the following to say.
“I haven’t spoken to the club about a new contract yet, but hopefully we will have some discussions when I come back off my holidays.
I only have one year left but I am confident it will be sorted out because I love the club and I want to stay.
It’s obvious when negotiations take a long time, things can become difficult. It is not good for either party, especially the player because it can affect your concentration.
But I am confident there will be no problems with me. My situation is easy – I want to stay where I am.
We need to think about the whole season, then, when we come back we must look at what we need to win the league again. One area we must look at is the need to do better in bigger matches.
Chelsea and Manchester United are our biggest rivals and they are looking to win the same trophies as we are.
These are the type of games you really need to win, yet we drew twice with Chelsea and lost twice against United. If we do not win those types of games, it just makes our task overall much more difficult.
Here are Gilberto’s statistics for the 2004/2005 season.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/bsp/hi/football/statistics/players/s/silva_209513.stm
We only lost one league game while Gilberto played.