Didier Drogba admits he felt uneasy after Fernando Torres’ arrival at Chelsea

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Didier Drogba has admitted Fernando Torres‘ transfer from Liverpool to Chelsea initially unsettled him.

The Spanish forward arrived in the January transfer window after the Blues had agreed a record breaking £50 million deal with the Merseyside outfit.

And despite experiencing uneasiness about his future initially, the Ivorian has come to accept that rotation will be the name of the game from now on.

Drogba said: “It wasn’t easy the first week after Torres joined but that’s normal. Today I know that we’re doing this for the best of the team. The team is more competitive. Everybody talks a lot about my future but I’m enjoying it and I’m happy to be here.

“It’s a new formation and we have a lot of strikers, but I can’t complain, I’m not the only one doing the turnover rotation. Salomon Kalou is not playing, Florent Malouda is not playing, sometimes Anelka, sometimes me. This time it was ‘Nando’. I think it’s good for the team. A team like Chelsea must have a lot of players to achieve a lot in a year.”

The former Marseille hitman also confirmed that he had held discussions with manager Carlo Ancelotti concerning his future at Stamford Bridge.

“Yes, of course. It’s important. The communication is important,” he said. “The communication is what makes a player feel profitable in every situation and I’m really happy.”

The 33-year-old also maintained that the Blues are not concerned about who they are pitted against in the Champions League, with the draw for the quarter-finals set to take place on Friday.

He said: “At this stage of the competition, whoever you get you have to deal with it and try to go through – if we get Barcelona, or Manchester United or Inter.

“You need to keep trying in this competition, to make sure you have learnt from the past. I think it’s little details in the Champions League, it’s all about details.

“Also we need a little bit of luck to win it. We didn’t have it in the last final but you have to do everything to have luck on your side so, hopefully, this time we’re going to do it.

“It was great to get to the quarter-finals this week and now we wait for the draw on Friday.”