{"id":12342,"date":"2013-01-28T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/chelsea-fail-in-last-attempt-to-get-drogba\/"},"modified":"2013-01-28T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T19:12:00","slug":"chelsea-fail-in-last-attempt-to-get-drogba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/28\/chelsea-fail-in-last-attempt-to-get-drogba\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Fail in Last Attempt to Get Drogba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/serving.thisdaylive.com\/0bef99d6-acf5-4e2c-9779-8fa02ba3fcd4\/assets\/080912F.Didier-Drogba.jpg?maxwidth=400&amp;maxheight=540\" id=\"page_content_Content9_oModuleContent_2_img_Banner\" alt=\"080912F.Didier-Drogba.jpg - 080912F.Didier-Drogba.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"page_content_Content9_oModuleContent_2_div_Body\" class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"c3\"><strong>Didier Drogba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FUTAA.COM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">Chelsea made a sensational last minute bid to re-sign Didier Drogba, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">Owner Roman Abramovich made an embarrassing U-turn by sanctioning a move for the former Blues hero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">Refused<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">Drogba, 34, who was refused a two-year extension because of his age, was offered a six-month deal to the summer with a further one-year option for next season, reports futaa.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">It was a blunt admission by Red Rom that his \u00a350million golden boy Fernando Torres has flopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">But Drogba turned down Rom\u2019s offer and is set to join Turkish side Galatasaray on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">Drogba quit Chelsea for Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua in May after scoring the winning penalty in Blues\u2019 Champions League final win over Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">Failed<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">The Cote d\u2019Ivoire striker failed to settle in China and has been looking for a move during the transfer window. Drogba trained at Chelsea before the African Nations Cup so the club\u2019s top brass believed they were in pole position to get him back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">But other clubs also wanted him and on Sunday night, was locked in talks with Galatasaray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\">The Turks can offer Drogba up to \u00a36m after tax, plus the lure of Champions League football with a tie against German side Schalke in the last 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Didier Drogba FUTAA.COM Chelsea made a sensational last minute bid to re-sign Didier Drogba, it has been revealed. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}