Chelsea In Talks With Montreal Over Drogba

“But our objective is to have him back for another season, as agreed in his contract. That’s not to do with me”.

British media reported earlier this month that Chelsea’s billionaire owner Roman Abramovich was keen to offer Drogba a position on the team’s coaching staff. “No contact has been made with the club or him”.

“I know the fans will support the team as they did briefly during some executions of the last game”.

Since then, there has been mostly silence. Anthony Martial has enjoyed certain games but is best used as a centre forward, rather than shunted out on the wing where he struggles to make an impact.

“At other clubs in the past I’ve been speaking from time to time with the board, but not in an official capacity”, said Hiddink, hinting at helping Chelsea’s board in their permanent manager search.

But The Sports PR Company, which handles Drogba’s account, tweeted Wednesday that a similar report in a London daily was “completely fabricated”.

Hiddink, who coached Drogba in a previous stint with Chelsea, gave no hints of that at his news conference. He is a club legend, is well liked and the players could learn plenty from him. Lukaku never found the back of the net in his 10 senior appearances for Chelsea and left under controversial circumstances after former manager, Jose Mourinho, accused the striker of being dishonest about expressing his desire to leave the club.

With these eye-watering figures, the Portuguese tactician may even be enjoying his current time off. He is still burning a hole in Chelsea’s coffers without having to deal with the divas and egos at Stamford Bridge.

“I shouldn’t be here halfway through the season because it means that things are not going well”, the Dutchman said.

“Regarding the last job with Holland of course they had a very good result in the last World Cup in Brazil [finishing third] and then you get all kinds of expectation and a little bit of a hangover”, he said.

“They play well and they have lots of experience and quality”.

Chelsea 2-1 Watford: The Blues got back to winning ways last weekend and they played with a freedom not seen for several weeks.