The 32-year-old Ivory Coast striker, who was signed for Chelsea by Jose Mourinho in 2004, has become increasingly disillusioned since being axed in favour of £50million signing Fernando Torres and would favour a move back to Marseille in the summer.
The potential stumbling block would be the fee Chelsea would require — possibly as much as £20m — and the inability of Marseille to match his wages of £130,000 a week.
Benched: Didier Drogba has been sidelined since the arrival of Fernando Torres
But Drogba is said to be so angry at having been cast aside since Torres arrived on transfer deadline day that he is now determined to leave.
The striker is said to suspect that even a change of manager at the end of the season, when Carlo Ancelotti is expected to depart, will not help his cause as Torres is perceived to be the personal signing of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich.
Nicolas Anelka was picked ahead of Drogba for last week’s 2-0 Champions League win in Copenhagen.
He scored both goals to boost his claimsfor a regular starting place and was then singled out for special praise by John Terry.
First-choice: Nicolas Anelka scored a double against Copenhagen in the Champions League
Drogba was one of the players Mourinho insisted on signing when he joined the club and the forward was instrumental in winning Chelsea’s first league title for 50 years.
He has won two further Premier League titles, the League Cup twice and three FA Cups with the club and has become one of the key players in Stamford Bridge history.
Ancelotti paired Torres and Drogba against Liverpool but since Chelsea’s defeat in that game, Drogba has started only last weekend’s FA Cup tie against Everton, for which Torres was suspended.
Being dropped for Tuesday’s clash with United, traditionally one of the biggest fixtures of the season, would be a further humiliation for the striker who is clearly unhappy.
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