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
Anelka is in talks with the club to forgo the final year of his contract, while Drogba has been linked with a move back to Europe. ...
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
Geneva: Didier Drogba has asked FIFA for special permission to move on loan from his Chinese club despite being outside the official transfer window. FIFA said on Wednesday it is considering the former Chelsea forward's request for an exemption from international rules. "The FIFA administration services are looking into it," FIFA said in a statement. Drogba's season with Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua finished this month. If FIFA grants...
05:08 PM, Nov 21, 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: Former Chelsea strikers Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka could be sold by China's Shanghai Shenhua due to an escalating equity stake row among shareholders, local media reported. Chairman Zhu Jun, who holds a 28.5 per cent stake, would only pay his share of the club's daily costs if his demands for greater control were not met, according to the China Daily. Zhu currently controls the Chinese Super League club...
12:42 PM, Aug 28, 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
Didier Drogba ended weeks of speculation about his future by joining big-spending Chinese Super League strugglers Shanghai Shenhua on Wednesday. Drogba had been strongly linked with a move to the Far East when he announced last month he was leaving Chelsea after scoring the decisive penalty for the London club in their Champions League final shootout victory over Bayern Munich. The 34-year-old will join up with his new team-mates in...
02:19 PM, Jun 20, 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
Shanghai: Shanghai Shenhua boss Sergio Batista insists that the club is working around the clock to sign Didier Drogba following his departure from Chelsea. The Ivorian striker scored the winning penalty against Bayern Munich in the Champions League final just days before announcing that he did not wish to renew his contract at Stamford Bridge. The Chinese outfit have been strongly linked with the forward and are said to be...
01:56 PM, May 31, 2012
London: After maddening and thrilling football fans in equal measures for eight years, Didier Drogba's combustible Chelsea career is over. And it was fitting that one of football's most theatrical characters went out with one final, dramatic flourish. With the last kick in his last game, the 34-year-old Drogba won the Champions League for Chelsea on Saturday, scoring the decisive penalty in the shoot-out against Bayern Munich. "Even the greatest...
02:12 AM, May 23, 2012
Shanghai: Nicolas Anelka marked his official arrival at Shanghai Shenhua on Thursday by revealing he could soon be joined at the ambitious Chinese club by former Chelsea teammate Didier Drogba. Drogba's contract at Chelsea expires at the end of the season and sections of the British media have reported that Shenhua is ready to pay the 33-year-old striker a weekly salary of 270,000 pounds ($420,000) to lure him to China....
09:33 AM, Feb 17, 2012
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