Andriy Shevchenko’s agent admits it is highly unlikely the AC Milan striker will stay at the San Siro beyond the end of the season.

Andriy Voronin claims he has opened talks with Hertha Berlin over extending his loan spell from Liverpool.

PORTSMOUTH boss Tony Adams fears the hungry understudies to the stars at mighty AC Milan might be the biggest threat to his team’s ambition of winning the “most prestigious game this club will ever play” tomorrow night.

Portsmouth manager Tony Adams fears the hungry understudies to the stars at mighty AC Milan might be the biggest threat to his team’s ambition of winning the “most prestigious game this club will ever play” on Thursday might.

AC MILAN last night confirmed that Andriy Shevchenko has completed his return to the club after passing a medical where he will be joined by Arsenal defender Philippe Senderos.

Andriy Shevchenko sent a message of thanks to the Chelsea fans after arriving at Milanello to undergo his medical with AC Milan today.

AC Milan have denied receiving a €150m offer from Chelsea or any other club for Kaka.

Chelsea might have been pursuing AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti to become their new manager but it appears there could be movement the other way with the Italian club claiming they have been given permission to speak to Blues forward Didier Drogba.

Chelsea have given AC Milan permission to talk to Didier Drogba but remain unwilling to part with former Rossoneri forward Andrei Shevchenko, the Milan vice president Adriano Galliani has claimed.

Rafael Benitez again leapt to the defence of his selection policy as he denied suggestions he fears the sack as Liverpool boss.

RAFAEL BENITEZ admits he is grappling with a striking conundrum ahead of tomorrow’s crucial Champions’ League group meeting with Besiktas.

AVRAM GRANT is unwilling to act as a “baby-sitter” to his stars and expects them to remain professional when they are left out of his plans.

LIVERPOOL boss Rafael Benitez insists his hunger to secure more major trophies at the end of the season is precisely the reason hotshot striker Fernando Torres will have to get used to life on the bench.

WE WILL all be watching out for the tell-tale signs at Old Trafford tomorrow: confusion, irritability, anger, loss, sudden fits of weeping, maybe even the odd eruption of violence. Chelsea, you feel sure, are about to experience their first full-blown symptoms of PMT — Post Mourinho Tension.

Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard is expected to have treatment today at the club’s Melwood training ground following a worrying ankle injury picked up in his side’s Champions League qualifier.

RAFAEL BENITEZ hailed a “wonderful goal” from new signing Andriy Voronin in France yesterday evening that put Liverpool within touching distance of the Champions League group stages.

AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi claims Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko wants to return to the San Siro and is determined to re-sign him.

LIVERPOOL legend Tommy Smith has blasted AC Milan ahead of tonight’s Champions League final and insists the Italian giants should not even be in the competition.

Chelsea have confirmed that midfielder Steve Sidwell has agreed to join the club on a Bosman-style free transfer from July 1.

Chelsea’s Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko has denied giving an interview to a German website in which he appeared to criticise coach Jose Mourinho.

Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho confirmed captain John Terry is out of the Carling Cup Final on Sunday.

GOALS from Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and substitute Salomon Kalou kept Chelsea in touch with leaders Manchester United at the top of the Barclays Premiership.

TROUBLED Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko returned to training with the rest of the squad yesterday as one of his closest pals alleged coach Jose Mourinho was the reason for the player‘s unrest at Stamford Bridge.

Dynamo Kiev defender Andriy Nesmachnyi is to have a medical at Blackburn ahead of a proposed move to the Premiership club, according to the Ukrainian side’s sporting director Leonid Buryak.

FRANK RIJKAARD admits the serious injury to Petr Cech has taken the usual sting out of Barcelona’s visit to Chelsea.

AC Milan psychologist Bruno de Michelis claims he has spoken with struggling striker Andriy Shevchenko as he tries to make an impact in the Barclays Premiership with Chelsea.

FRANK Lampard has warned Chelsea’s championship rivals to forget any idea the history-chasers are about to step off the gas.

ANDRIY Shevchenko knows how to make an entrance. Ukraine’s most famous export marked his AC Milan debut with a goal seven years ago and he did the same on his Chelsea bow in last Sunday’s Charity Shield defeat to Liverpool.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is willing to work with William Gallas again and revealed that no club has yet tabled a bid for the defender.

Ruud van Nistelrooy has no chance of escaping from Manchester United as long as Alex Ferguson insists on holding out for full value for the Holland international.

Sheva still enjoys lavish praise from Italian opposition but that could change, writes Ben Lyttleton.

Andriy Shevchenko believes he has joined Chelsea “at the perfect time” and claims winning the Champions League is now “a realistic target” for the Blues.

Liverpool’s French defender Djimi Traore admitted that the sounds of Milan players celebrating victory in the Champions League final outside the dressing room at half- time spurred the Anfield men on to their Istanbul heroics.

UKRAINIAN president Viktor Yushchenko, who visited Auschwitz yesterday, recalled his father’s ordeal in the death camp he described as a “sacred place” for him and his family.

Grandmother Svetlana Atamaniuk sobbed and moaned as she paced the pavement opposite Lviv’s central morgue, overflowing with bodies from the Ukrainian air show crash that killed 83.