{"id":319347,"date":"2011-03-18T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/didier-drogba-admits-he-felt-uneasy-after-fernando-torres-arrival-at-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T10:05:00","slug":"didier-drogba-admits-he-felt-uneasy-after-fernando-torres-arrival-at-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/didier-drogba-admits-he-felt-uneasy-after-fernando-torres-arrival-at-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Didier Drogba admits he felt uneasy after Fernando Torres&#8217; arrival at Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>18 Mar 2011 10:05:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"75.7186156492\">\n<div readability=\"13.035\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Didier Drogba, Chelsea (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/83652456118907_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Didier Drogba, Chelsea (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"48.9647058824\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/c%C3%B4te-divoire\/497\/didier-drogba\">Didier Drogba<\/a> has admitted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/1442\/fernando-torres\">Fernando Torres<\/a>&#8216; transfer from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/98\/liverpool\">Liverpool<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> initially unsettled him.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish forward arrived in the January transfer window after the Blues had agreed a record breaking \u00a350 million deal with the Merseyside outfit.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Drogba said: &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t easy the first week after Torres joined but that&#8217;s normal. Today I know that we&#8217;re doing this for the best of the team. The team is more competitive. Everybody talks a lot about my future but I&#8217;m enjoying it and I&#8217;m happy to be here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a new formation and we have a lot of strikers, but I can&#8217;t complain, I&#8217;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 &#8216;Nando&#8217;. I think it&#8217;s good for the team. A team like Chelsea must have a lot of players to achieve a lot in a year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Marseille hitman also confirmed that he had held discussions with manager Carlo Ancelotti concerning his future at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, of course. It&#8217;s important. The communication is important,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The communication is what makes a player feel profitable in every situation and I&#8217;m really happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;At this stage of the competition, whoever you get you have to deal with it and try to go through &#8211; if we get Barcelona, or Manchester United or Inter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to keep trying in this competition, to make sure you have learnt from the past. I think it&#8217;s little details in the Champions League, it&#8217;s all about details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also we need a little bit of luck to win it. We didn&#8217;t have it in the last final but you have to do everything to have luck on your side so, hopefully, this time we&#8217;re going to do it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was great to get to the quarter-finals this week and now we wait for the draw on Friday.&#8221;        <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/18\/2400026\/didier-drogba-admits-he-felt-uneasy-after-fernando-torres\" title=\"Didier Drogba admits he felt uneasy after Fernando Torres' arrival at Chelsea\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Didier Drogba admits he felt uneasy after Fernando Torres&#8217; arrival at Chelsea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 18 Mar 2011 10:05:00 Didier Drogba, Chelsea (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Didier Drogba has admitted Fernando Torres &#8216; transfer from Liverpool to Chelsea initially unsettled him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Didier Drogba admits he felt uneasy after Fernando Torres&#039; 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