Drogba fears Blues disaster
Posted Friday, February 17, 2012 by The Sun
Didier on the Champs Lge
AFTER eight years of trying to win the Champions League with Chelsea, Didier Drogba is desperate to get the job done.
The Ivory Coast star has been a semi-finalist three times and a finalist once, yet the big prize has always eluded him.
Next Tuesday the Blues travel to face Napoli in their last 16, first-leg clash, with the odds on them lifting the trophy longer than ever given their patchy form this season.
Drogba admits that had he quit Chelsea he might have cracked it with another club.
But he insists there could never be anything like getting that ultimate success with the Londoners. He said: "I could go to any other team playing in the Champions League and maybe win it. But it would never be the same as if I did it for Chelsea.
"With the history of our different campaigns, to win it for Chelsea would mean more to me than if I did it playing for Barcelona or another team.
"It would be nice somewhere else but not the same. You have to believe, even if there are not a lot of green signals or green lights saying Chelsea could win the Champions League this season.
"Napoli have had a good run in the last few games but we are going there to try to get a good result and then win at home.
"If we can score there it will be perfect. It's a competition where we want to do well. We go there with a lot of ambition."
CHELSEA favourite Drogba insists he could still be at the club next season.
The striker's contract runs out this summer and he wants a new two-year deal at Stamford Bridge.
So far Drogba, who will be 34 next month, has been offered only a one-year agreement.
He has been strongly tipped for a move to mega-rich Chinese outfit Shanghai Shenhua, where his old Blues strike partner Nicolas Anelka now plays.
But Drogba believes an agreement can be reached with his beloved Chelsea, whom he joined from Marseille for £24million in July 2004.
The Ivory Coast frontman said: "Everybody knows I love the club and everyone knows I want to stay.
"We are still talking about it, so let's see what comes out of the discussions. I'm optimistic something can happen.
"I love Chelsea and I think they love me as well. I think we are going to find something and make a decision which suits everyone — me, the club and the fans.
"At the same time, if it doesn't happen that's life but you will never change the respect and the love we created together.
"My heart is Blue."
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