"I love it here and I don't care what happens elsewhere. After 2004 my priority will be to return to France, because by then I will have been playing abroad for 10 years."
Desailly also said he would prefer to miss out on meeting England in this summer's World Cup finals - but if the countries do clash he is confident France will win.
" I'd rather avoid the English," he added.
"I think that as individuals they are almost at the same level as us. They are very strong but they don't have the same collective quality that we have - nor the collective ambition and the awareness of what it really is to win."
Meanwhile, Claudio Ranieri has been offered a new deal as Chelsea coach that will keep him at the club until 2005, it is being reported.
The former Valencia and Atletico Madrid coach is being given a two-year extension and a £5,000-a-week pay rise to the deal he signed in the autumn of 2000. That will put him in the £25,000-a-week bracket. Ranieri was reported as saying: "The president (chairman Ken Bates) has offered me a further two years."
The Italian, who signed a three-year deal when he took over from his countryman Gianluca Vialli 18 months ago, has yet to win a trophy at Chelsea but the team have won their last four games, scoring 15 goals and conceding only two in the process.
Chelsea, fifth in the Premiership and three points behind fourth-placed Newcastle, are still in contention for a place in next season's Champions League and are also chasing FA Cup glory.
They meet Fulham in the semi-finals at Villa Park on Sunday 14 April.
In a survey, Sir Alex Ferguson's new deal at Manchester United is being touted as the most lucrative of any manager in world football. The 60-year-old Scot agreed the contract at Old Trafford last month after he decided to delay his retirement for three years.
His earnings from July will outstrip the biggest names in the game, including England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, whose annual salary is £2m, according to the magazine World Soccer.
Juventus's Marcello Lippi and Ottmar Hitzfeld, at Bayern Munich, are on less money than Ferguson.
His earnings are put at £3.5m-a-year, which is slightly more than Roma's Fabio Capello - the second-highest paid manager, who receives £2.1m each season after tax.
Leeds United's David O'Leary (£2m), Ranieri (£1.2m), Arsenal's Arsene Wenger (£1.1m before his new deal starts in the summer) and Liverpool's Gerard Houllier (£1.1m) are also in the top 10.
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