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Watch Milton Keynes Dons vs Leyton Orient Live StreamingCole's current contract expires this summer and there is growing speculation that he will quit Stamford Bridge.
The midfielder is understood to want in excess of £100,000 a week but he has failed to regularly start in Carlo Ancelotti's side since returning from a serious knee injury last September.
But Wilkins remains confident that Cole's contract situation will eventually be resolved and that the player still has a chance of featuring in Fabio Capello's England plans for the World Cup finals this summer.
"We are desperate to keep Joe," said Wilkins. "I know the club are and we as a management group feel the same. He is a very valuable asset to us.
"It is a contractual situation that he and the club I am sure will sort out at a later stage.
"We sincerely hope he will be here next season. We would love to keep Joe. I am sure he and the club will sort it out.
