Madrid - Spain striker David Villa told sports daily AS on Friday that "nobody has said to me that Valencia are going to sell me, or put a price tag on me."

Villa conceded that Valencia are heavily in debt and have not paid the salaries of the players since December, but, with regard to a possible sale, said that "it is not logical to talk about something that we don't know for sure is going to happen."

Barcelona, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Liverpool are among the major clubs rumoured to be interested in the Euro 2008 top scorer.

Villa, 27, was close to joining Real last summer, but was eventually retained by new club president Vicente Soriano.

He established a new Spain record on Wednesday by scoring in his sixth successive international match, in the 2-0 friendly defeat of England in Seville.

He told AS that it was a "very handsome goal" but also that "it was lucky that the ball fell kindly for me." (dpa)