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Drogba: Jose was betrayed
By ANDREW DILLON
Published: Today
DIDIER DROGBA has lifted the lid on Jose Mourinho’s shock exit from Chelsea and how the boss was betrayed.
And the Blues striker insists only one man is to blame for forcing him to follow the Special One out of Stamford Bridge — owner Roman Abramovich.
Drogba said: “I learned that the manager was going when he told me personally — before the club made it official.
“It was a shock because I literally did not believe it could happen to a guy like him.
“When Mourinho went to say goodbye for the last time in the dressing room it only lasted five minutes but it was an immensely strong moment and very moving.
“To watch him empty his locker so quickly and with such little fuss was terrible.
“Some around me were crying. It’s a shame if you are sensitive. He kissed us, one by one — except a few!
“Then he said ‘I wish you good luck to you and to your families and I thank you all. Even those who betrayed me’.
“Mourinho didn’t stay a second longer after that because I think he would have burst into tears.
“Then it was like fireworks in the dressing room.
“I really feared that everything was going to explode.
“Finally a sense of resignation sunk over us and my initial feeling, just like a lot of players I think, was to feel alone.
“It was almost like being an orphan after the departure of a father.
“Over the following days I struggled to look at some people without getting angry.
“Things went too far. In training, during those days, you could see some players were making basic errors, forgetting the basics of football.
“Thankfully that effect didn’t last too long.
“My opinion is that results were only an excuse for getting rid of him. Perhaps his honesty and his way of saying what he thinks were not appreciated by everyone at the club.
“Mourinho explained to me what had happened in the few weeks prior to his departure and I understood why he went.
“I prefer not to share that, I just want to say that I have been really badly surprised by some people.
“I understand now what Mourinho meant when he told me ‘Know that I am happy to leave this place’.
Now furious Drog blames Abramovich for crushing his own Blues dream.
It was Abramovich who signed the £24million cheque which took Drogba to Chelsea three years ago and pays him a whopping £100,000 a week.
But Drogba, 29, rapped: “Sacking Mourinho has done a lot of harm to the squad.
“I still don’t know why we changed manager after just a month of competition. There was nothing alarming.
“If the will to sack him existed, then why not do it pre-season?
“If you trust a guy to start the season, then apart from a total catastrophe he has to get until December at least.
“But apparently Abramovich changed his philosophy.
“We players are only employees and it was out of our hands.
“I took the whole thing badly and perhaps I put too much sentiment in my relationship with the coach.”
Drogba was the Premiership’s top scorer last season with 20 goals and flourished under Mourinho to become one of Europe’s most feared attackers.
But he cried when Mourinho left last month and feels he cannot produce the goods for new boss Avram Grant.
Drogba added: “The fire in me has gone. I need to play for a club where I am willing to break a leg in search of victory and I need to play for a club which makes me dream.
"Winning the Champions League makes me dream and I thought that staying at Chelsea for what I knew would be Mourinho’s last season was my best chance of achieving this.
“When the manager left he quickly said that he would like to work with me again but in such deals nothing is simple. He knows that I dream of the Spanish and the Italian league.
“I must win either La Liga or Serie A and there are, perhaps, only five clubs in the world that make me dream.
“They are Barcelona, Real Madrid, Inter, AC Milan and Marseille. There are not 50 clubs which can inspire my passion and my hunger to win but these ones do.
“I’ve been so angry and so disappointed with what happened to Mourinho that I truly thought of leaving in this winter market.
“As for leaving it’s a decision I won’t change, even if people tell me that Ronaldinho and Kaka are on their way in the summer.
“So I’ve decided I’ll stay until next summer.
“I will do everything to defend my shirt loyally until the end of the season.
“I’ve had a strange relationship with Chelsea since my first day. Almost since that day I’ve wanted to leave.
“But despite this I’ve stayed and they are the most beautiful years of my career.
“I’ve wondered if this club was right for me and it took me a long time to love Chelsea.
“In the past I have never been so clear in my wish to leave. But today I really know firmly and clearly what I want.
“Experience shows that it’s no good for a club to try to keep a player against his will.
“I hope I’ll be able to part company with the club in a correct way.
“I acknowledge that this is a club where I was greatly helped to grow up.
“I hope people won’t be too angry with me because, in the end, I’m thinking of myself.”
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Drogba to demand move
Chelsea star wants out
By Graeme Bailey Last updated: 19th October 2007
Didier Drogba is set to demand a move from Chelsea, according to reports in France.
The Ivory Coast star has become unsettled in West London following the departure of manager Jose Mourinho.
Last season's top-scorer in England has found Mourinho's departure hard to take, and now with Milan and Real Madrid circling, Drogba has admitted he cannot take life with Chelsea anymore.
Exit
"I want to leave Chelsea," he has told France Football - which will publish the full interview on Friday.
"Nothing can stop me from leaving now. Something is broken with Chelsea.
"The damage in the dressing room is big because we know now what happened and who caused Mourinho's departure."
Drogba insisted that no matter who Chelsea might sign next summer - he did not want to play for The Blues beyond this season.
"I know that Ronaldinho and Kaka are linked to come next season but even that won't change my mind," he continued.
Rumours of Drogba's unrest have been circulating ever since Mourinho's departure and his latest outburst would only seem to confirm that he does not have a long-term future at the club.
Contract
But despite the Ivory Coast international's apparent unrest, Chelsea insist that they expect him to stay at Stamford Bridge for the remainder of his current deal.
A statement issued by the club on their official website read: "Didier Drogba signed a new four-year contract last year.
"As a top professional we are sure Didier is committed to Chelsea and intends to honour that contract."
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Drogba denies he'll leave Chelsea in January
'I am someone who has always campaigned for solidarity, so I've decided to stay until next summer'
Paul Doyle
Friday October 19, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
For a man who has a reputation for diving, Didier Drogba is remarkably honest off the pitch. Not only does he openly admit to France Football, in an interview published today, that he wants to leave Chelsea, but he explains that he will not do so in the course of this season because "it would be a little cowardly to leave at a time when the boat is rocking".
He admits, however, that his initial intention after Jose Mourinho's departure was to leave the club as soon as possible and that he originally planned to refuse to play against Valencia last month so that he would be eligible to play in the Champions League for another team later in the season. After reflection, Drogba eventually declared himself available for that game and now says he is determined to stay at Chelsea until June.
"When you're disappointed you sometimes take stances that you haven't thought about properly," he explained. "That was my way of showing how angry I was. But I wouldn't have been able to look my team-mates in the eye afterwards. I am someone who has always campaigned for solidarity, so I've decided to stay until next summer."
Chelsea have already pointed out that Drogba committed himself to the club until 2010 when he signed an improved contract last year, but the player said he hoped the club would realise it will be in everybody's interests to let him go next June. "Experience shows that there's no point holding on to a player against his wishes," he said. "I hope we'll be able to find a tidy way of leaving Chelsea."
Drogba also revealed that he has been taking Spanish and Italian lessons for "a little while" and would relish the opportunity to play for one of the giants of Serie A or La Liga. "I want to get back to playing with butterflies in my stomach for a club who make me dream," he said. "For me, there aren't 50 clubs who could stimulate this sort of passion, just four: AC Milan, Inter, Barça and Real."
Aware that Chelsea fans may accuse him of disloyalty or money-grabbing, Drogba said: "Since my first day at Chelsea, I've always thought collectively. I don't think anyone can complain if I decide to think a little about myself towards the end."
Though he admitted that this is not the first time he has considered leaving Stamford Bridge and that he has always had "a bizarre relationship" with Chelsea, he said that Mourinho's departure convinced him it was time to move on. Indeed, he revealed that he would almost certainly have left last summer if he'd known that the manager would be gone within a month of the season's start. Asked if he thought the club waited until after the closure of the transfer window to shed Mourinho precisely because they wanted to prevent a player exodus, Drogba reportedly feigned shock before exclaiming: "That would be Machiavellian thinking!"
"All I know is that the decision has done a lot of damage to the team," he continued, seriously. "There are many casualties in the dressing room because now we know what happened and whose fault it is that Jose Mourinho is gone. In the days after his departure, I had trouble looking at certain people without feeling angry."
"Some things that were done and said did not conform to the mentality of a squad that until that point had always been tight and had shown solidarity for each other. I understand that some people might not have wanted the coach to stay and hoped that his successor might give them more games, but what happened went beyond that. It went far too far. Maybe it would be an exaggeration to talk about treachery but certainly some people were very disappointing. I understand why the coach, despite being very attached to most of the players, announced as he was going, 'I am very happy to be leaving here.'"
Drogba described the atmosphere in the dressing room after Mourinho's departure. "There were fireworks ... Things went a little haywire and there was quite a rumpus within the group. Several players weren't far off professional misconduct, ignoring basic principles. Fortunately all that didn't last too long."
He refused to elaborate further and denied that there were now warring factions within the dressing room. Asked whether Andriy Shevchenko and John Terry had played any role in Mourinho's departure, he replied - sarcastically, according to France Football - "No, I don't want to believe that ... if that was the case, it would be really shocking."
He made little effort, however, to disguise his displeasure with Roman Abramovich's role in Mourinho's departure. "Everything was halted at the whim of the president," he said. "We are mere employees. I don't hide the fact that I took the whole episode very badly."
"When you stick with a manager through the summer, you have to at least give him until December unless some catastrophe takes place. But apparently president Abramovich has changed philosophy. We feel that the shared story was ended too quickly. We're left with a feeling of incompleteness, and impotence.
Despite all that, Drogba maintains that he is determined to do his best for Chelsea until he leaves. "I think Henk ten Cate will do us good. We're not out of the title race and were still on track in the Champions League. I believe we can succeed. We wouldn't be the first team to pull off a great season after encountering some problems along the way. We've all developed such a hunger for victory that I can't see us settling for second place. We've got what it takes to surprise some people. The trauma is behind us now."
Drogba: Jose was betrayed
By ANDREW DILLON
Published: Today
DIDIER DROGBA has lifted the lid on Jose Mourinho’s shock exit from Chelsea and how the boss was betrayed.
And the Blues striker insists only one man is to blame for forcing him to follow the Special One out of Stamford Bridge — owner Roman Abramovich.
Drogba said: “I learned that the manager was going when he told me personally — before the club made it official.
“It was a shock because I literally did not believe it could happen to a guy like him.
“When Mourinho went to say goodbye for the last time in the dressing room it only lasted five minutes but it was an immensely strong moment and very moving.
“To watch him empty his locker so quickly and with such little fuss was terrible.
“Some around me were crying. It’s a shame if you are sensitive. He kissed us, one by one — except a few!
“Then he said ‘I wish you good luck to you and to your families and I thank you all. Even those who betrayed me’.
“Mourinho didn’t stay a second longer after that because I think he would have burst into tears.
“Then it was like fireworks in the dressing room.
“I really feared that everything was going to explode.
“Finally a sense of resignation sunk over us and my initial feeling, just like a lot of players I think, was to feel alone.
“It was almost like being an orphan after the departure of a father.
“Over the following days I struggled to look at some people without getting angry.
“Things went too far. In training, during those days, you could see some players were making basic errors, forgetting the basics of football.
“Thankfully that effect didn’t last too long.
“My opinion is that results were only an excuse for getting rid of him. Perhaps his honesty and his way of saying what he thinks were not appreciated by everyone at the club.
“Mourinho explained to me what had happened in the few weeks prior to his departure and I understood why he went.
“I prefer not to share that, I just want to say that I have been really badly surprised by some people.
“I understand now what Mourinho meant when he told me ‘Know that I am happy to leave this place’.
Now furious Drog blames Abramovich for crushing his own Blues dream.
It was Abramovich who signed the £24million cheque which took Drogba to Chelsea three years ago and pays him a whopping £100,000 a week.
But Drogba, 29, rapped: “Sacking Mourinho has done a lot of harm to the squad.
“I still don’t know why we changed manager after just a month of competition. There was nothing alarming.
“If the will to sack him existed, then why not do it pre-season?
“If you trust a guy to start the season, then apart from a total catastrophe he has to get until December at least.
“But apparently Abramovich changed his philosophy.
“We players are only employees and it was out of our hands.
“I took the whole thing badly and perhaps I put too much sentiment in my relationship with the coach.”
Drogba was the Premiership’s top scorer last season with 20 goals and flourished under Mourinho to become one of Europe’s most feared attackers.
But he cried when Mourinho left last month and feels he cannot produce the goods for new boss Avram Grant.
Drogba added: “The fire in me has gone. I need to play for a club where I am willing to break a leg in search of victory and I need to play for a club which makes me dream.
"Winning the Champions League makes me dream and I thought that staying at Chelsea for what I knew would be Mourinho’s last season was my best chance of achieving this.
“When the manager left he quickly said that he would like to work with me again but in such deals nothing is simple. He knows that I dream of the Spanish and the Italian league.
“I must win either La Liga or Serie A and there are, perhaps, only five clubs in the world that make me dream.
“They are Barcelona, Real Madrid, Inter, AC Milan and Marseille. There are not 50 clubs which can inspire my passion and my hunger to win but these ones do.
“I’ve been so angry and so disappointed with what happened to Mourinho that I truly thought of leaving in this winter market.
“As for leaving it’s a decision I won’t change, even if people tell me that Ronaldinho and Kaka are on their way in the summer.
“So I’ve decided I’ll stay until next summer.
“I will do everything to defend my shirt loyally until the end of the season.
“I’ve had a strange relationship with Chelsea since my first day. Almost since that day I’ve wanted to leave.
“But despite this I’ve stayed and they are the most beautiful years of my career.
“I’ve wondered if this club was right for me and it took me a long time to love Chelsea.
“In the past I have never been so clear in my wish to leave. But today I really know firmly and clearly what I want.
“Experience shows that it’s no good for a club to try to keep a player against his will.
“I hope I’ll be able to part company with the club in a correct way.
“I acknowledge that this is a club where I was greatly helped to grow up.
“I hope people won’t be too angry with me because, in the end, I’m thinking of myself.”
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Drogba to demand move
Chelsea star wants out
By Graeme Bailey Last updated: 19th October 2007
Didier Drogba is set to demand a move from Chelsea, according to reports in France.
The Ivory Coast star has become unsettled in West London following the departure of manager Jose Mourinho.
Last season's top-scorer in England has found Mourinho's departure hard to take, and now with Milan and Real Madrid circling, Drogba has admitted he cannot take life with Chelsea anymore.
Exit
"I want to leave Chelsea," he has told France Football - which will publish the full interview on Friday.
"Nothing can stop me from leaving now. Something is broken with Chelsea.
"The damage in the dressing room is big because we know now what happened and who caused Mourinho's departure."
Drogba insisted that no matter who Chelsea might sign next summer - he did not want to play for The Blues beyond this season.
"I know that Ronaldinho and Kaka are linked to come next season but even that won't change my mind," he continued.
Rumours of Drogba's unrest have been circulating ever since Mourinho's departure and his latest outburst would only seem to confirm that he does not have a long-term future at the club.
Contract
But despite the Ivory Coast international's apparent unrest, Chelsea insist that they expect him to stay at Stamford Bridge for the remainder of his current deal.
A statement issued by the club on their official website read: "Didier Drogba signed a new four-year contract last year.
"As a top professional we are sure Didier is committed to Chelsea and intends to honour that contract."
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Drogba denies he'll leave Chelsea in January
'I am someone who has always campaigned for solidarity, so I've decided to stay until next summer'
Paul Doyle
Friday October 19, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
For a man who has a reputation for diving, Didier Drogba is remarkably honest off the pitch. Not only does he openly admit to France Football, in an interview published today, that he wants to leave Chelsea, but he explains that he will not do so in the course of this season because "it would be a little cowardly to leave at a time when the boat is rocking".
He admits, however, that his initial intention after Jose Mourinho's departure was to leave the club as soon as possible and that he originally planned to refuse to play against Valencia last month so that he would be eligible to play in the Champions League for another team later in the season. After reflection, Drogba eventually declared himself available for that game and now says he is determined to stay at Chelsea until June.
"When you're disappointed you sometimes take stances that you haven't thought about properly," he explained. "That was my way of showing how angry I was. But I wouldn't have been able to look my team-mates in the eye afterwards. I am someone who has always campaigned for solidarity, so I've decided to stay until next summer."
Chelsea have already pointed out that Drogba committed himself to the club until 2010 when he signed an improved contract last year, but the player said he hoped the club would realise it will be in everybody's interests to let him go next June. "Experience shows that there's no point holding on to a player against his wishes," he said. "I hope we'll be able to find a tidy way of leaving Chelsea."
Drogba also revealed that he has been taking Spanish and Italian lessons for "a little while" and would relish the opportunity to play for one of the giants of Serie A or La Liga. "I want to get back to playing with butterflies in my stomach for a club who make me dream," he said. "For me, there aren't 50 clubs who could stimulate this sort of passion, just four: AC Milan, Inter, Barça and Real."
Aware that Chelsea fans may accuse him of disloyalty or money-grabbing, Drogba said: "Since my first day at Chelsea, I've always thought collectively. I don't think anyone can complain if I decide to think a little about myself towards the end."
Though he admitted that this is not the first time he has considered leaving Stamford Bridge and that he has always had "a bizarre relationship" with Chelsea, he said that Mourinho's departure convinced him it was time to move on. Indeed, he revealed that he would almost certainly have left last summer if he'd known that the manager would be gone within a month of the season's start. Asked if he thought the club waited until after the closure of the transfer window to shed Mourinho precisely because they wanted to prevent a player exodus, Drogba reportedly feigned shock before exclaiming: "That would be Machiavellian thinking!"
"All I know is that the decision has done a lot of damage to the team," he continued, seriously. "There are many casualties in the dressing room because now we know what happened and whose fault it is that Jose Mourinho is gone. In the days after his departure, I had trouble looking at certain people without feeling angry."
"Some things that were done and said did not conform to the mentality of a squad that until that point had always been tight and had shown solidarity for each other. I understand that some people might not have wanted the coach to stay and hoped that his successor might give them more games, but what happened went beyond that. It went far too far. Maybe it would be an exaggeration to talk about treachery but certainly some people were very disappointing. I understand why the coach, despite being very attached to most of the players, announced as he was going, 'I am very happy to be leaving here.'"
Drogba described the atmosphere in the dressing room after Mourinho's departure. "There were fireworks ... Things went a little haywire and there was quite a rumpus within the group. Several players weren't far off professional misconduct, ignoring basic principles. Fortunately all that didn't last too long."
He refused to elaborate further and denied that there were now warring factions within the dressing room. Asked whether Andriy Shevchenko and John Terry had played any role in Mourinho's departure, he replied - sarcastically, according to France Football - "No, I don't want to believe that ... if that was the case, it would be really shocking."
He made little effort, however, to disguise his displeasure with Roman Abramovich's role in Mourinho's departure. "Everything was halted at the whim of the president," he said. "We are mere employees. I don't hide the fact that I took the whole episode very badly."
"When you stick with a manager through the summer, you have to at least give him until December unless some catastrophe takes place. But apparently president Abramovich has changed philosophy. We feel that the shared story was ended too quickly. We're left with a feeling of incompleteness, and impotence.
Despite all that, Drogba maintains that he is determined to do his best for Chelsea until he leaves. "I think Henk ten Cate will do us good. We're not out of the title race and were still on track in the Champions League. I believe we can succeed. We wouldn't be the first team to pull off a great season after encountering some problems along the way. We've all developed such a hunger for victory that I can't see us settling for second place. We've got what it takes to surprise some people. The trauma is behind us now."
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