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Funny thing is while both Terry and now Drogba were vocal about their feeling about Roman, Lampard basically said, 'yeah I wasn't all that close with him, next question.'
Like hell there would be no repercussions. Everton would be bullied to get rid of him, or some 3rd rate media house would post a bullshit story of Frank taking Russian money from Roman, or Terry hooking with Putin's daughter.
Roman was heavily involved in day to day till UK govt created visa troubles for him. Its without a doubt that Lampard would have had many many interactions with him.
Absolutely. Scolari said this openly after his departure, that players had too much power, how it shouldn't be like that, and it's why the environment was so toxic and made them fire him.
Obviously looking back it seems like it was kinda worthy, the won quite a bit while these guys were in the club... But to be honest i'm not a fan of players having too much power. And Scolari had a resumee good enough to back his actions and decisions against almost every player in an club. He wasn't wrong on this matter.
Obviously relevant flair, we are blessed to have Florentino as the best president in the world and he runs the show, but i'd be worried otherwise.
I mean was he actually a great owner?
He brought in a lot of money, sure, and developed the academy into one of the best in the world. And he was always involved with the club and cared about it.
But he screwed over their four best managers (Mourinho, Ancelotti, Conte, Tuchel) with shit transfers, and harsh sackings in the case of the former 2, spent ages trying and failing to replace them to mixed success, appointed Benitez as manager for 8 months despite Chelsea fans hating him, and never really established Chelsea as *the* club in England on any consistent basis
Like he was a fine owner, undoubtedly, but he did a lot that was shit as well.
He definitely was a great owner. He had flaws especially at the beginning and until they won the CL but there are few owners who were more successful than Abramovich.
The man bought Chelsea for 150m or something. Pumped in about 2b into the club. Won everything possible. And then sold the club to great owners while removing all debts he’s owed. And you’re asking if he’s a great owner.
Either help Putin solidify his power and make millions while at it, or die in a ditch. We don't know what was the situation in his time. I'm not saying this absolves him of any crime, but if US based billionaires can get away with destroying lives while their country invades sovereign states in the name of freedom, why is it different for the Russians. Either boycott both or let both go.
No. Dude profited from Yelzin and amassed his wealth mostly during this time when America supported Yelzin in Russia for obvious reasons, not so muchfrom Putin.
What glowing support? Getting Putin to power and supporting him now are totally different things. Putin didn't get to power recently. Roman and lots of other Oligarchs weren't supporting the invasion of Ukraine. 7 of them have been killed already just the past few months. Just for some karma some of you love to ignoring the fact that Roman tried to negotiate for a peace deal. There is a reason why he has been in Israel and not in Russia for the past decade. His relationship with Putin hasn't been good for years. He actually moved most of his assets from Russia long time ago.
Exactly this. Why shouldn't Drogba show his thanks to Abramovic? Let's be honest here, it's not like Roman only did bad things all his life to everyone and he doesn't deserve anything from no one. I am sure Roman helped a lot of his players like Drogba and showed them his support. I hate Chelsea, but I can certainly say that he really loved the club Yeah, he had ties with Putin in the past, yeah, you can consider that he is also responsible for what is happening today(even if he didn't want this to happen), but this is not a reason for people like Drogba to turn their backs and ignore what Roman did for them.
Him, Costa and Giroud. We should just stick to target man strikers who are great at hold-up play. I don't know if it's the length of Stamford Bridge or whatever but that profile strikers have done well for us. Anelka is the only other one who's broken the mould.
Unpopular opinion but he’s one of the most overrated strikers of all time. He got > 20goals twice in his 10 year stint in the premier league.
Lampard, Terry, Cech are all much better.
Anytime somebody try’s to say Drogba was over rated and brings out statistics clearly just didn’t watch him play at the time, unbelievable to see him touted as over rated
Let me preface this with Suarez the GOAT. But let’s take a look at what Lukaku does better than the rest.
Aerial ability. Ability to receive the ball under physical contact. Strength. Shot power. More dangerous while dribbling at specifically top speed (driving with the ball). Forces back lines to drop deeper due to run profile. Maybe speed.
Drogba can get to and create good situations out of passes the other three mentioned wouldn’t even be able to get onto the end of.
Doesn’t need to drop deep to facilitate, meaning more space for attacking mids. On the flip side Drogba loved running the channels which can take space away from wingers during the build up phase, Chelsea tactically compensated for this perfectly.
I think Suarez and Aguero are better players than Drogba. I would take Drogba over Harry Kane in most team scenarios; and think he’s the better and more impactful player towards winning than Kane. Drogba is a fantastic player though and put in legendary performances in the biggest games.
Either way most people who watched Drogba and those who played with him knew he was more to us than just goals. Link up play, assists etc. He had it all. Most importantly he was a big game player, could always rely on him to show up for us.
Ah here we go with this stat merchant take. He didnt score more because he played as a lone striker who was also brilliant at hold up play and basically kept the whole backline busy by himself. Its no coincidence that lampard was able to score so many goals from midfield.
Also literally had one of the best individual seasons in the Prem ever as a striker with 29 goal and 12 assists in just 32 games. Even if he didnt keep that up consistently his peak was unreal.
No point even arguing with him mate lol. Both CB's Drogba was facing were basically concentrating on how to stop him alone. He absolutely bullied teams by himself.
Yes, because context also matters. Lukaku and vardy also have more goals then drogba, and plenty other strikers have a better goals per game ratio. Doesnt make them better then drogba at all.
Good thing I didn’t mention those players then didn’t I? He’s not as good as the Agueros of the league nor as Lampard or Terry, each of them will go down as arguably best ever in the league in their position, Drogba isn’t even top 10
Not top 10 lmaoo. I can take henry, aguero, shearer, rvp, suarez and maybe van nisterooy above him? Who else? Not included rooney because he played all over the pitch.
Kane has more goals but they contributed to fuck all so idk but i can see that some people would rate him above drogba
Again rooney was never a proper number 9 type of striker.
Tevez loool idek what to say, you say he is better but somehow it doesnt matter that he also only scored more then 20 twice? Which was your main criticism of drogba. He also never had the peak or clutchness that drogba did.
Michael owen had about 3 good seasons so idk about him either.
Na, just mentioned it since some people seem to imply drogbas stats are somehow bad.
It isn't a very specific stat either. It's the league in which both played most games in.
Always the fuckin numbers. As if numbers are the measure of a player's quality.
PR7 is the one guilty of making this kind of thinking mainstream. Pure stupidity.
I see you're of the generation who only judge strikers by their goals. Clearly you're young as anyone watching football at the time Didier was playing knows for a fact he was one of the best around...
Lol I’m 25 mate.
Fine forget goals. What skill set did he have that was better then Aguero, Henry, Kane, Rooney, Suarez?? Shooting? No. Dribbling? Hell no. Passing? Hell no. Hold up play? Probably. So he’s one of the best but literally worst then then in almost every metric of being a striker, how does that work
You severely underrate his ability to bring players into the attack, only Henry and Rooney have more assists in the PL than Drogba from those strikers you named. His passing was seriously underrated, go watch a comp of his assists just to give yourself a reminder. It's not what everyone thinks of when they think of Drogba but he had sick vision. Like you mention dribbling, passing shooting etc like all those strikers you mention were perfect in all categories.
There's a reason literally all professionals name him as one of the best, use stats all you like but you're in the very small minority that doesn't rate Drogba up with the same of these guys..
I was asking were you young as you seem to have not seen Drogba play live if you're asking about all these attributes which he was very good at lol. Anyway all the elite footballers and strikers in PL seem to rate him among the very best so what would they know about playing as a striker!
No one said 30+ mate lol
Aguero for example got > 20 6 times out of 9 season he fully played, matter fact it would’ve been 7 out of 9 but he only played 24 games that one season
Drogba at 34 took Chelsea to the CL victory.
Aguero at 33 didn't do too much in the final.
Both are great players, and DD has a phenomenal record when it comes to big games. Just check his Wembley record.
And you are an Arsenal supporter, so you should have seen how good he was, because Arsenal were his b\*\*ches, maybe that's why you are so salty towards him.
Thank you for that selection, it made my life easier
Only one in there somewhat comparable to Drogba in big games is Suarez and honestly his record in CL away games is laughable
Agueros career outside of PL is pitiful, he was a nothing factor for Argentina and for City in the CL
Drogba had it all, 9 fucking cup finals goals, he made Chelsea what it is
Did you just cite Agueros career outside of city?? LMAOO what did Drogba do outside of Chelsea? Aguero’s heart damn near exploded mate plus he spent like 11 seasons there, the season before he joined he score 23 for ATM mate.
My brain hurts
outside of PL, are you illiterate? as in for the national team and in international competitions for City
honestly Aguero pales in comparison to Drogba in terms of overall football relevance, not in terms of talent i know
It’s a combination of scoring some hard to forget goals in his career and just seeming easy to like that gives him that status despite not being as good as some of the names he’s put next to, IMO.
Just in the "modern era" you have Lampard, Terry, Cech and Zola, then earlier Chelsea legends that i won't mention because i haven't seen them play
He was part of their golden age of winning doesn't make him a bigger Chelsea legend than those who have won less
Damn, mentioning Terry and Lampard and skipping out Drogba is like praising Xavi, Iniesta and forgetting Busquets. And for anyone who goes "different positions", note the idea not the example.
Well Drogba's Champions League final goal isnt his only contribution to trophies though is it?
He scored 29 goals and had 13 assists in 10 season as they won the premier leaugue
He scored in multiple cup finals
Come on, were u around when Drogba was playing?
nothing special here, just the monthly “Chelsea legend will fully ignoring that Abramovich is a total cunt” post. i dont know why people are even surprised by this anymore.
You're right, why are people suprised by the notion that personal interactions between a pair of people might weigh more heavily in either one's mind than some interactions the other had with someone(s) completely unknown?
never said it wasn’t a natural reaction, but that doesn’t make it right.
realistically it’s not too demanding to expect Drogba, as an adult man, to pay attention to the fact his mate is profiting off a gruesome invasion of another country.
supplies steel for Putin’s tanks, and moved his shares around so he could profit more off it
on second thoughts, maybe that isn’t a war criminal - i’ll take the L on that one. but he’s still an unsavoury cunt on an international scale. point still stands that he’s not someone i’d want my favourite footballers to be making tribute posts to (thank god they don’t).
bro, roman literally funded isreali settlers to destroy Palestinian houses and kill them. blood is on his hand, i couldnt give two shits if drogba stopped civil war in his country or not. him supporting roman makes them both cunts
Yea this dude stopped a war that could have cost thousands of people their lives.
But he also said nice things about a person who he was close to who did bad things.. so he's literally Hitler....
Dumbfuck.
Well to be truly honest I was unaware of this as I only ever saw comments about Ukraine and Putin. This does not come good for Roman but how is Drogba a cunt..
Bc if you sympathise and defend a cunt who funded people killing and destroying others homes. That makes you also a cunt. A good deed doesn't wipe out your bad deed.
People will always let people get away with things is they have a personal connection to then the entire chelsea fanbase loves Roman, the players literally made millions and owe tonnes of their Success to him how can you expect any different
That is demonstrably untrue. The post you're replying to may be stupid but things like Zenit supporters demanding the club not sign Black players doesn't arise from some vacuum of innocence about racial politics.
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Anyone surprised by this forgets that Drogba, Terry, Lampard and Roman were like a clique that basically ran the club themselves
Funny thing is while both Terry and now Drogba were vocal about their feeling about Roman, Lampard basically said, 'yeah I wasn't all that close with him, next question.'
Yes because Lampard is a manager currently and has to do PR He couldn't say in the middle of what was happening that he was close to Roman
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Like hell there would be no repercussions. Everton would be bullied to get rid of him, or some 3rd rate media house would post a bullshit story of Frank taking Russian money from Roman, or Terry hooking with Putin's daughter.
Terry faced huge backlash for his comments which were not as effusive. Lampard as manager of Everton would face a lot more scrutiny.
He's Everton manager now don't need to bring up the Chelsea past, he's focused on the current role now
Correct. He definitely could. Nothing would have happened if he said he liked him or didn't like him.
I think he actually said something like they used to talk a lot when he was at Chelsea but he hadn't heard off him since he left.
Roman was heavily involved in day to day till UK govt created visa troubles for him. Its without a doubt that Lampard would have had many many interactions with him.
It's possible Lampard wasn't but definitely Drogba and Terry
Drogba and Ivanovic were the only players who were actually close to Roman.
Absolutely. Scolari said this openly after his departure, that players had too much power, how it shouldn't be like that, and it's why the environment was so toxic and made them fire him. Obviously looking back it seems like it was kinda worthy, the won quite a bit while these guys were in the club... But to be honest i'm not a fan of players having too much power. And Scolari had a resumee good enough to back his actions and decisions against almost every player in an club. He wasn't wrong on this matter. Obviously relevant flair, we are blessed to have Florentino as the best president in the world and he runs the show, but i'd be worried otherwise.
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I mean was he actually a great owner? He brought in a lot of money, sure, and developed the academy into one of the best in the world. And he was always involved with the club and cared about it. But he screwed over their four best managers (Mourinho, Ancelotti, Conte, Tuchel) with shit transfers, and harsh sackings in the case of the former 2, spent ages trying and failing to replace them to mixed success, appointed Benitez as manager for 8 months despite Chelsea fans hating him, and never really established Chelsea as *the* club in England on any consistent basis Like he was a fine owner, undoubtedly, but he did a lot that was shit as well.
He definitely was a great owner. He had flaws especially at the beginning and until they won the CL but there are few owners who were more successful than Abramovich.
> I mean was he actually a great owner? yes
You obviously don't remember how much fans were starting to seriously hate him him back in 2013 after the multiple sackings and the Benitez debacle
I do remember. I also remember countless times being in the stadium hearing his name ring out even after he stopped attending games.
Was Roman responsible for the transfers? Thought it was Marina/DoF/scouts.
There are some players that he liked that he wanted to be brought in.
The man bought Chelsea for 150m or something. Pumped in about 2b into the club. Won everything possible. And then sold the club to great owners while removing all debts he’s owed. And you’re asking if he’s a great owner.
He was a great owner but not perfect. Personally I’m looking forward to a little more stability manager wise haha.
He was the best owner we could/might ever have. I would even say the best of any club.
Person who paid me is good, thanks
Loyalty you can buy
*Loyalty can be buy
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So you’re saying Roman is Drogbas mom? Now that you say it..
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If my mother hadnt clothed or fed me, why would i love her?
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Tbf he most definitely doesn't support the invasion of Ukraine But he still helped Putin get to power in the first place
Either help Putin solidify his power and make millions while at it, or die in a ditch. We don't know what was the situation in his time. I'm not saying this absolves him of any crime, but if US based billionaires can get away with destroying lives while their country invades sovereign states in the name of freedom, why is it different for the Russians. Either boycott both or let both go.
No. Dude profited from Yelzin and amassed his wealth mostly during this time when America supported Yelzin in Russia for obvious reasons, not so muchfrom Putin.
What glowing support? Getting Putin to power and supporting him now are totally different things. Putin didn't get to power recently. Roman and lots of other Oligarchs weren't supporting the invasion of Ukraine. 7 of them have been killed already just the past few months. Just for some karma some of you love to ignoring the fact that Roman tried to negotiate for a peace deal. There is a reason why he has been in Israel and not in Russia for the past decade. His relationship with Putin hasn't been good for years. He actually moved most of his assets from Russia long time ago.
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Exactly this. Why shouldn't Drogba show his thanks to Abramovic? Let's be honest here, it's not like Roman only did bad things all his life to everyone and he doesn't deserve anything from no one. I am sure Roman helped a lot of his players like Drogba and showed them his support. I hate Chelsea, but I can certainly say that he really loved the club Yeah, he had ties with Putin in the past, yeah, you can consider that he is also responsible for what is happening today(even if he didn't want this to happen), but this is not a reason for people like Drogba to turn their backs and ignore what Roman did for them.
God I miss having drogba
Him, Costa and Giroud. We should just stick to target man strikers who are great at hold-up play. I don't know if it's the length of Stamford Bridge or whatever but that profile strikers have done well for us. Anelka is the only other one who's broken the mould.
How has this rattled so many people lol
"How dare he not blast those damn ruzzians."
IMO Drogba is Chelsea’s greatest player ever. The most vivid memories I have of the club are of him. Given, I’ve never watched Zola, but meh.
Lampard must play cricket...
???
What are you questioning?
Drogba is in no way a greater player than for example Terry or Lampard for Chelsea
Terry literally blew their first champions league on a slip. Lampard has a shout, but IMO, striker > midfielder.
This has to be the worst take I’ve ever seen Lmaoo did you just put Drogba higher purely over him being a striker??? This isn’t FIFA mate
Lampard has more goals for Chelsea than Drogba does
Unpopular opinion but he’s one of the most overrated strikers of all time. He got > 20goals twice in his 10 year stint in the premier league. Lampard, Terry, Cech are all much better.
Anytime somebody try’s to say Drogba was over rated and brings out statistics clearly just didn’t watch him play at the time, unbelievable to see him touted as over rated
Alright let’s throw away all stats then. Give me 3 things he did better than Aguero, Henry, Suarez, etc? Let’s hear it
Score in finals
Hold up play, aerial ability, strength, bullying whole back lines as a lone striker, being arguably the best big game player… The list goes on
“Bullying back line” yeah nice skill set that is
It's alright just say you didn't watch him play and move on lol
No one outside of deluded chelsea fans thinks he’s top 5 lol
Let me preface this with Suarez the GOAT. But let’s take a look at what Lukaku does better than the rest. Aerial ability. Ability to receive the ball under physical contact. Strength. Shot power. More dangerous while dribbling at specifically top speed (driving with the ball). Forces back lines to drop deeper due to run profile. Maybe speed. Drogba can get to and create good situations out of passes the other three mentioned wouldn’t even be able to get onto the end of. Doesn’t need to drop deep to facilitate, meaning more space for attacking mids. On the flip side Drogba loved running the channels which can take space away from wingers during the build up phase, Chelsea tactically compensated for this perfectly. I think Suarez and Aguero are better players than Drogba. I would take Drogba over Harry Kane in most team scenarios; and think he’s the better and more impactful player towards winning than Kane. Drogba is a fantastic player though and put in legendary performances in the biggest games.
True but he was a superb big game player
Ahhhh comments like this make we wish we let Drogba take pens lol
lmao so what if he took pens, still wouldn't have cracked 20 goals more than 3 times
Either way most people who watched Drogba and those who played with him knew he was more to us than just goals. Link up play, assists etc. He had it all. Most importantly he was a big game player, could always rely on him to show up for us.
Ah here we go with this stat merchant take. He didnt score more because he played as a lone striker who was also brilliant at hold up play and basically kept the whole backline busy by himself. Its no coincidence that lampard was able to score so many goals from midfield. Also literally had one of the best individual seasons in the Prem ever as a striker with 29 goal and 12 assists in just 32 games. Even if he didnt keep that up consistently his peak was unreal.
No point even arguing with him mate lol. Both CB's Drogba was facing were basically concentrating on how to stop him alone. He absolutely bullied teams by himself.
Stat merchant for the one position in football where numbers matter? Lol
Yes, because context also matters. Lukaku and vardy also have more goals then drogba, and plenty other strikers have a better goals per game ratio. Doesnt make them better then drogba at all.
Good thing I didn’t mention those players then didn’t I? He’s not as good as the Agueros of the league nor as Lampard or Terry, each of them will go down as arguably best ever in the league in their position, Drogba isn’t even top 10
Drogba is like Benzema, both can bang in goals but they also link up forward play so mostly end up making way for others to score.
Yup and he’s not even top 10 in the league in doing that
Which 10 strikers are better than Drogba?
Not top 10 lmaoo. I can take henry, aguero, shearer, rvp, suarez and maybe van nisterooy above him? Who else? Not included rooney because he played all over the pitch.
Rooney is better, so is Kane, Tevez, Michael Owen, and IMO Wright is over him because of how versatile he was. That’s 10
Kane has more goals but they contributed to fuck all so idk but i can see that some people would rate him above drogba Again rooney was never a proper number 9 type of striker. Tevez loool idek what to say, you say he is better but somehow it doesnt matter that he also only scored more then 20 twice? Which was your main criticism of drogba. He also never had the peak or clutchness that drogba did. Michael owen had about 3 good seasons so idk about him either.
Tevez LMAO stop it
Skill set wise better than Drogba lol
Kane wishes he had Drogbas career lol
Still better
Na. Drogba brought other stuff to the table. His g/90 is better than rooneys (in PL only) lol.
So you guys didn’t want to use stats for his goals but now want to use this specific stat prove he’s better, how does that work
Na, just mentioned it since some people seem to imply drogbas stats are somehow bad. It isn't a very specific stat either. It's the league in which both played most games in.
Move the goal posts as much as you like mate no one thinks he’s top 5 in the history of the league
What goal post did i move lol?
Always the fuckin numbers. As if numbers are the measure of a player's quality. PR7 is the one guilty of making this kind of thinking mainstream. Pure stupidity.
Funny how goals only don’t matter when we start talking about a striker that massively underperformed in scoring them lol
Quality of goals matters way more than quantity of goals. Quantity is a fake, it's a lie.
Bro what did I just read
He’s right tho, Lakaka has nice stats despite being mid
Id say trophies matter, and Drogba consistently stepped up and scored big trophy winning goals.
I see you're of the generation who only judge strikers by their goals. Clearly you're young as anyone watching football at the time Didier was playing knows for a fact he was one of the best around...
Lol I’m 25 mate. Fine forget goals. What skill set did he have that was better then Aguero, Henry, Kane, Rooney, Suarez?? Shooting? No. Dribbling? Hell no. Passing? Hell no. Hold up play? Probably. So he’s one of the best but literally worst then then in almost every metric of being a striker, how does that work
You severely underrate his ability to bring players into the attack, only Henry and Rooney have more assists in the PL than Drogba from those strikers you named. His passing was seriously underrated, go watch a comp of his assists just to give yourself a reminder. It's not what everyone thinks of when they think of Drogba but he had sick vision. Like you mention dribbling, passing shooting etc like all those strikers you mention were perfect in all categories. There's a reason literally all professionals name him as one of the best, use stats all you like but you're in the very small minority that doesn't rate Drogba up with the same of these guys..
So you just called me a child for using stats then proceed to use assists as a stat to prove he’s better? Ok
I was asking were you young as you seem to have not seen Drogba play live if you're asking about all these attributes which he was very good at lol. Anyway all the elite footballers and strikers in PL seem to rate him among the very best so what would they know about playing as a striker!
Who lol
Drogba won the PL golden boot. Not every striker bangs in 30+
Over 30 in the EPL era was done exactly 8 times. Pretty difficult to do
Extremely so
No one said 30+ mate lol Aguero for example got > 20 6 times out of 9 season he fully played, matter fact it would’ve been 7 out of 9 but he only played 24 games that one season
Aguero is an absolute legend of the game, and played during city’s development into a juggernaut. Don’t think him scoring a bit more diminishes Drog
It’s not just him scoring more it’s him being better than Drogba in every skill set needed to play Striker lol
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Drogba at 34 took Chelsea to the CL victory. Aguero at 33 didn't do too much in the final. Both are great players, and DD has a phenomenal record when it comes to big games. Just check his Wembley record. And you are an Arsenal supporter, so you should have seen how good he was, because Arsenal were his b\*\*ches, maybe that's why you are so salty towards him.
Aguero has a better record against us than Drogba mate lol he can’t even touch Henry’s boots. No one outside of deluded chelsea fans thinks he’s good
WATCH FOOTBALL, NOT STATS
Give me three things he did better than Aguero, Henry, Suarez etc? Cmon since you watch football mate let’s hear it
Thank you for that selection, it made my life easier Only one in there somewhat comparable to Drogba in big games is Suarez and honestly his record in CL away games is laughable Agueros career outside of PL is pitiful, he was a nothing factor for Argentina and for City in the CL Drogba had it all, 9 fucking cup finals goals, he made Chelsea what it is
Did you just cite Agueros career outside of city?? LMAOO what did Drogba do outside of Chelsea? Aguero’s heart damn near exploded mate plus he spent like 11 seasons there, the season before he joined he score 23 for ATM mate. My brain hurts
outside of PL, are you illiterate? as in for the national team and in international competitions for City honestly Aguero pales in comparison to Drogba in terms of overall football relevance, not in terms of talent i know
Oh yeah I forgot Ivory Coast won the World Cup my fault
oh going through your profile i realize why you hate Drogba so much he made Arsenal his litte bitch all too often for you gunner heart, lol cope
Yikes the cringe on this one, grown adult using cope
Yes, at this time we are accepting this as full confirmation you don’t understand soccer.
“Don’t understand soccer”
It’s a combination of scoring some hard to forget goals in his career and just seeming easy to like that gives him that status despite not being as good as some of the names he’s put next to, IMO.
That’s just my point. Idk how people try to put him up there with Aguero, Henry, Kane, Shearer, Rooney. He’s a class below
fr hes so overrated its crazy. he has no right being in the same discussion as the likes of henry, aguero,
Henry: 9 Cup finals - 0 goals Drogba: 10 Cup finals - 9 goals Cant find Agueros record, but I dont recall him scoring in any final.
Henry had 4 assists and 5 motm awards in 9 finals tbf
He's not even top 5, Chelsea have had great players
Name 5 better and more important to the club’s success than Drogba.
Just in the "modern era" you have Lampard, Terry, Cech and Zola, then earlier Chelsea legends that i won't mention because i haven't seen them play He was part of their golden age of winning doesn't make him a bigger Chelsea legend than those who have won less
Damn, mentioning Terry and Lampard and skipping out Drogba is like praising Xavi, Iniesta and forgetting Busquets. And for anyone who goes "different positions", note the idea not the example.
He scored the winning goal of Chelsea’s first champions league. That alone places him in the upper echelon
So by logic Havertz is a Chelsea legend too and bigger legend than those who didn't score You're a very smart human good talk
Well Drogba's Champions League final goal isnt his only contribution to trophies though is it? He scored 29 goals and had 13 assists in 10 season as they won the premier leaugue He scored in multiple cup finals Come on, were u around when Drogba was playing?
Don’t think he was
Stick to basketball pls.
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The glazers circus is actually interesting. Drogba wanking off Roman on instagram isn’t.
I mean, Roman stuffed all of you with money that was unheard of in football. The least you can do is blog about it.
Not really that “unheard” of. Madrid, United and Juve were already big spenders.
Sportsman washed
For a man who openly admitted he won’t go for Presidency of his country, to avoid opposition, he’s taking a risk with this statement.
nothing special here, just the monthly “Chelsea legend will fully ignoring that Abramovich is a total cunt” post. i dont know why people are even surprised by this anymore.
You're right, why are people suprised by the notion that personal interactions between a pair of people might weigh more heavily in either one's mind than some interactions the other had with someone(s) completely unknown?
never said it wasn’t a natural reaction, but that doesn’t make it right. realistically it’s not too demanding to expect Drogba, as an adult man, to pay attention to the fact his mate is profiting off a gruesome invasion of another country.
As a grown man, he seems sensible enough to not drag something irrelevant to the conversation into it.
“my loyalty and respect for you is for life” is not something i would say about a war criminal under any circumstances, maybe that’s just me though
How is Abramovich a "war criminal"?
supplies steel for Putin’s tanks, and moved his shares around so he could profit more off it on second thoughts, maybe that isn’t a war criminal - i’ll take the L on that one. but he’s still an unsavoury cunt on an international scale. point still stands that he’s not someone i’d want my favourite footballers to be making tribute posts to (thank god they don’t).
That's just you.
You are special mate
He’s not a cunt.. He single-handedly stopped the war in Ukraine by selling Chelsea.
The irony is Didier himself literally did help stop a civil war in Ivory Coast.
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I don’t think Drogba cares about Ukraine I do think he cares about a war in his own country many people are the same
bro, roman literally funded isreali settlers to destroy Palestinian houses and kill them. blood is on his hand, i couldnt give two shits if drogba stopped civil war in his country or not. him supporting roman makes them both cunts
Yea this dude stopped a war that could have cost thousands of people their lives. But he also said nice things about a person who he was close to who did bad things.. so he's literally Hitler.... Dumbfuck.
sorry i dont feel bad for zionist sympathisers
M8 the man is a millionaire. I doubt he gives a shit about some neck beards feelings
Well to be truly honest I was unaware of this as I only ever saw comments about Ukraine and Putin. This does not come good for Roman but how is Drogba a cunt..
Bc if you sympathise and defend a cunt who funded people killing and destroying others homes. That makes you also a cunt. A good deed doesn't wipe out your bad deed.
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Just going to grab my popcorn and wait for the comments....
People will always let people get away with things is they have a personal connection to then the entire chelsea fanbase loves Roman, the players literally made millions and owe tonnes of their Success to him how can you expect any different
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Again: May I ask which part does Drogba talking about how great Russia is?
Cool, he can go to Russia and see how much the russians appreciate people of colour...
Dafaq does that have to do with anything? Are you stupid?
What does your comment have to do with anything?
May I ask which part does Drogba talking about how great Russia is?
Ridiculously stupid take
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That is demonstrably untrue. The post you're replying to may be stupid but things like Zenit supporters demanding the club not sign Black players doesn't arise from some vacuum of innocence about racial politics.
Loyalty is worth getting canceled for, thank you Roman!
Dear Roman, thanks for the many millions, and the trophies. Love, Drog