Real Madrid’s Brazil defender Roberto Carlos on Sunday confirmed his wish to sign a new four-year contract and not the two-year deal currently on the table, O Globo newspaper reported on Sunday.
Roberto Carlos is in Rio de Janeiro preparing for Brazil’s South American 2006 World Cup qualifier against Argentina in Belo Horizonte on Wednesday.
”They’ll say ‘We’ll see how he plays the next two years and then we have the option of giving him two more years at the club’,” he said. ”But I’m 31 and my career path will not allow me to accept this kind of thing.”
The player has been negotiating for several weeks with Madrid club officials about an extension of his existing contract, which runs until June 30 next year.
”What I want is to sign a contract for another four years here,” Roberto Carlos had told Spanish radio station Onda Cero on May 11.
He added in O Globo that he has received an offer from Chelsea but that it is not his wish to go there.
”I promised myself I would finish my career at Real Madrid,” he said. — Sapa-AFP