Only a couple of weeks ago, on his 32nd birthday, he fired a 15 minute hat trick past helpless Wolves.
"I've said I don't want to leave, I've not said I want to leave," said Hasselbaink. "I'm a football player and I want to play.
"If I play well I want to stay in the team, like everybody else. If I play bad, okay, then I can accept that I have to sit down. But if I have a good run, I'm like everybody else, I want to play. That's what I'm paid to do, and that's what I want to do.
"And if I can't do that here, at Chelsea, I will cry. But I have to do it then somewhere else, if you know what I mean. It's not that I want to leave but...
"Chelsea is my club, I love it to bits and I hope I can stay here. I want to be a part of it and I want to play."