Drogba can play in a Champions League last-16, first leg at home to Schalke next Wednesday. ...
11:06 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The 34-year-old moved to Shanghai Shenhua after helping Chelsea win the Champions League last May. ...
08:40 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Former Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka has joined Juventus on a five-month deal from China's Shanghai Shenhua. ...
12:54 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Shanghai: The China careers of former Chelsea strikers Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka are in doubt amid reports of unpaid wages at the end of a tumultuous year at Shanghai Shenhua. Local media have reported Frenchman Anelka's management is in talks with the Chinese Super League club to forgo the final year of his contract, while Ivory Coast striker Drogba has been linked with a move back to Europe. Drogba...
10:43 AM, Dec 18, 2012
FIFA have refused Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba permission to leave China's Shanghai Shenhua on loan before the January transfer window. FIFA said they had received a request to be registered outside an open registration period from the former Chelsea forward, whose season in the Chinese Super League is over. The 34-year-old wants to keep himself sharp for the African Nations Cup which begins on January 19. "Any professional player...
10:36 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Didier Drogba can be Liverpool's next signing. The Reds' forward line looks pretty weak right now with the departure of Andy Carroll and the club is now on the lookout for a free agent and that bring Drogba into the picture. The former Chelsea striker joined China's Shanghani Shenhua in the summer and reports suggest he is having a hard time there with the management and that he is looking...
09:26 AM, Sep 05, 2012
Shanghai: It is not money but the big challenge in an unfamiliar land that lured Didier Drogba to China, the Ivory Coast striker said on Saturday. More than 300 fans gathered at the Shanghai airport to welcome Drogba on his much-anticipated arrival to join Chinese Super League strugglers Shanghai Shenhua. Drogba has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the big-spending club for a reported salary of $300,000 a week, ending weeks...
01:24 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Beijing: Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba's long-expected move to big-spending Shanghai Shenhua has been confirmed by the Chinese club's owner, media reports said on Tuesday. Zhu Jun, who reportedly visited Drogba's native Ivory Coast last week, said the 34-year-old was joining the club, but said no date for his arrival has been set and refused to discuss terms of his contract, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Unconfirmed local reports...
02:16 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Shanghai: Chinese clubs have been splashing out on big-name foreign managers and players to try to raise the profile of domestic soccer. Shanghai Shenhua have a good chance of signing Chelsea striker Didier Drogba but need to work hard to complete the deal, coach Sergio Batista said on Thursday. Just three days after scoring the winning penalty in Chelsea's shootout victory over Bayern Munich in last month's Champions League final,...
06:24 PM, Jun 14, 2012
