{"id":2021,"date":"2014-02-24T14:37:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2014-02-24T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:37:50","slug":"chelsea-want-drogba-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2021","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea want Drogba back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2022\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/didier-Drogba_1318176c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2022\" alt=\"Didier Drogba\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/didier-Drogba_1318176c-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/didier-Drogba_1318176c-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/didier-Drogba_1318176c.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Didier Drogba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chelsea are looking to bring Didier Drogba back to Stamford Bridge in the summer, with owner Roman Abramovich reportedly the driving force behind the move.<\/p>\n<p>Drogba, who turns 36 in March, is wanted back in west London as a coach, reports The Times and Sunday People, to help Chelsea create their own star strikers of the future rather than spend millions on proven talent.<\/p>\n<p>The move could well appeal to the striker, whose Galatasaray host Jose Mourinho\u2019s Premier League leaders on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>The Cote d\u2019Ivoire goal machine was on Mourinho&#8217;s radar earlier this season when he was looking to add to his attacking arsenal, but Abramovich \u2014 who is friends with the powerful forward \u2014 was reluctant to bring in another veteran to a side with a number of players on the wrong side of 30.<\/p>\n<p>While the Russian billionaire has been anything but shy of reaching into his pockets for big name goal scorers \u2014 he\u2019s topped \u00a3150million on the likes of Fernando Torres, Adrian Mutu, Andriy Shevchenko, Hernan Crespo, Nicolas Anelka and Drogba in the past decade \u2014 it would of course make better business sense for the club to nurture its own talent.<\/p>\n<p>Should Drogba take up the opportunity, it would give him the chance to get his coaching badges and prepare for a life after playing behind the scenes of a club that holds him dear to their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Daily Mail<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are looking to bring Didier Drogba back to Stamford Bridge in the summer, with owner Roman Abramovich reportedly the driving force behind the move. Drogba, who turns 36 in March, is wanted back in west London as a coach, reports The Times and Sunday People, to help Chelsea create their own star strikers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}