Fabrizio Ravanelli warned today he will not be forced out of Derby by manager John Gregory.
The Rams boss has told the former Italian international there is no future for him at the relegated side and he will have to find a new club.
But Ravanelli has a year left on his contract and insists he wants to honour it.
He said today: "I have a contract until June 2003 and I want to respect it. Gregory can say whatever he wants, I have a contract. If I receive some offers I will evaluate them, but for the time being I have no alternatives and therefore my present and future is in Derby".
The "White Feather" joined Derby, who dropped out of the Premiership this season, last July from Lazio in a deal reportedly worth up to £50,000 sterling a week to him.
Gregory is seeking to release all of the club's foreign players, with the exception of goalkeeper Mart Poom, as he readjusts their wages budget in Division One.
Giorgi Kinkladze, Horacio Carbonari, Pierre Ducrocq, Luciano Zavagno and Francois Grenet have been told they can leave. - PA