
According to the magazine, the striker says he informed his team-mates of his decision during the club’s open-top bus parade on Monday May 21, 2012 after leading them to the greatest moment in their history on Saturday night.
‘We will no longer be together next season, As I decided to leave, I wanted to tell them straight in the eye. Except that I could not do it. They made me crack‘, said the 34-year-old Ivorian.
We hear one of Drogba’s major reasons for quitting the Chelsea team is the club’s decision to set up a new team which might see the powerful striker sit on the bench for most of their games.
‘But I could not see myself sitting on the bench to watch others play when the club plans to set up a new team’, the magazine quoted him as saying
Drogba has been linked with his former team mate’s chinese club Shanghai Shenhua and Spanish giant Barcelona - but he rubbished the Barcelona rumours. He is likely to consider a move to Shanghai at the end of his contract with Chelsea FC.