admin“I think for the club it is the best solution to bring Jose back,” says the striker, savouring his own latest chapter by the Bosporus with Turkish champions Galatasaray. “I don’t think he has got over Chelsea and they haven’t got over him.”
While Drogba’s loyalties might now lie here amid the exotica of Istanbul, where he is mobilising for his seventh Champions League quarter-final, his affections for the man who galvanised him into arguably the most lethal talisman in English Premier League history continue undimmed.
Mourinho recently claimed that the Ivorian was the favourite player he had ever worked with, and such sentiment is plainly reciprocal.
“He is a winner, and still close to the players,” argues Drogba, as he takes his seat by the pool table in the Galatasaray players’ lounge.
“He went to Inter Milan and now Real Madrid but he still talks about Chelsea, so he loves this club. When he came he brought success — we won two league titles back-to-back with some great football and the only thing he didn’t win was the Champions League.
“Maybe that is one of the reasons why he might want to come back. It is unfinished business.”
Mourinho himself has been brazenly solicitous of such talk, admitting that Chelsea “remain in my heart”.
But Drogba’s paean adds fresh weight to the notion of a most improbable restoration at Stamford Bridge, five and half years after the manager was so dramatically ex-communicated from the court of Roman Abramovich.
“Your opinion today is maybe not your opinion in five years’ time,” he says. “You can change and adapt your ideas.” Drogba enjoys such privileged access to Abramovich’s star chamber that he still exchanges text messages with the Russian, even if he is reluctant to illuminate how such contact comes about. “We speak sometimes, like when I am playing in the African Cup of Nations,” he explains. — The Telegraph.
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