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A legend?

10 major bits of silverware in 8 seasons and 9 goals in major finals, most of them winning ones plus all the other stuff Imagin if we ever had a player that won all that with us ... one day ;) ... yeah a legend no doubt.

Chelsea

FA Premier League (3): 2004–05, 2005–06, 2009–10
FA Cup (4): 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12
Football League Cup (2): 2004–05, 2006–07
UEFA Champions League (1): 2011–12
FA Community Shield (2): 2005, 2009

Individual

Onze d'Or: 2004
UEFA Cup Top Scorer: 2004
Ligue 1 Goal of the Year: 2004
Ligue 1 Team of the Year: 2004
Ligue 1 Player of the Year: 2004
Ivorian Footballer of the Year: 2006, 2007
African Footballer of the Year: 2006, 2009
Chelsea Players' Player of the Year: 2007
Premier League Golden Boot: 2007, 2010
PFA Team of the Year: 2007, 2010
UEFA Team of the Year: 2007
ESM Team of the Year: 2007
FIFPro World XI: 2007
BBC African Footballer of the Year: 2009
West African Footballer of the Year : 2010
Chelsea Player of the Year: 2010
Time Top 100: 2010
UEFA Champions League Final Man of the Match: 2012
Côte d'Ivoire all-time Top Scorer

Top, top player Drogba, hard as nails on the pitch build like a brick, they will miss him for sure.
If he just stopped being a twat diving all the time.

paulmclaren wrote:Top, top player Drogba, hard as nails on the pitch build like a brick, they will miss him for sure.
If he just stopped being a twat diving all the time.

totally agree and to be fair he cut the diving bollox out of his game for a few seasons then it started creeping back in this season

If we were to lose one of our 4 strikers, I'd offer him a 2 year deal. No fear.

dazby wrote:If we were to lose one of our 4 strikers, I'd offer him a 2 year deal. No fear.

He'd be the ideal player to push our strikers when they act soft.

Would he be up for a bit part role at city tho?

Pretty Boy Lee wrote:

dazby wrote:If we were to lose one of our 4 strikers, I'd offer him a 2 year deal. No fear.

He'd be the ideal player to push our strikers when they act soft.

Would he be up for a bit part role at city tho?

No.

Unless we offered him loadsamoney, then yes.

Pretty Boy Lee wrote:

dazby wrote:If we were to lose one of our 4 strikers, I'd offer him a 2 year deal. No fear.

He'd be the ideal player to push our strikers when they act soft.

Would he be up for a bit part role at city tho?

Absolutely not.
Don't get me wrong, I've always been huge fan of his play (minus the diving of course) but we already have our share of characters and Drogba would never just settle for place on the bench. IF he did, he'd be perfect super-sub, but he will not. It could end in complete disaster within the squad.

Why would he necessarily be a supersub? Surely he is capable of holding down a regular spot on merit? If Tevez were to go he'd be my number 2 striker.

I would 'DEFINATLY' get Drogba on a 1 year free trasnsfer but he will move abroad.
GREAT player though, the premiereship will miss him for sure.

One of my favourite players to have never played for City.

Look beyond the theatrics and the fact he played for Chavski and he was EPIC

People gasped when they spent so much cash on him.

He was worth every penny and more,top notch.

Dont think there's a player in the world who could score the goals he's scored and NOT be a legend.

8 years is a long time to be at a team nowadays too.

Hope he does well in China or wherever he ends up.

EDIT: Carlos Tevez? If he scored the equaliser and winning pen in a CL final.... would that make him a City legend?

Drogba is a beast must be an absolute nightmare to mark with his physical strength and his knack of feigning injury and fooling the officials.If you put all the antics to one side he has been an incredicle player.

Echo whats been said here, hes an abs monster and imo better than shearer.

With regards signing him, i dont want him, he said he wouldnt play for anyone else in england besides chelsea and hes at his best when the main man in the team which he wouldnt be here. No doubting his ability though, hes actually one of my fave non-city players.

Worth every penny Chelsea paid for him, and turned up on the big occasion just about every time.

Scored in Cup Finals, semi-finals, and helped Chelsea carry off multiple trophies including the biggest ones of all in Champions League and League Titles.

As a football fan you respect his achievements, if you're a Chelsea fan he will forever be a legend of your club. His epitaph will be Big Game Player, enough said.

Up there with Henry in terms of the best strikers to of played in the PL. He's a big game player as well. 9 goals in 9 finals isn't it?
Would definitely have him on a 1 year contract.

I think his desire to win for chelsea made a huge difference in those last few games. he wanted revenge on barcelona for the injustice a few years back, and he didnt care how that revenge was taken, as long as they got it. You need hard nosed bastardds like that in a team. yeh he dives, but they all do now, some better than others. its up to the authorities to correctly and consistently penalise it, which they arent doing. Fair play to him chelsea got full value there...

ps. I think his level of performance would dip if he played for another prem club so I wouldnt sign him. Just my opinion

Strong and Drogba don't belong in the same sentence. The guy is a pussy.

Quality player though.