Drogba, 30, will go from £70,000 to £130,000 a
week.
DIDIER DROGBA will be offered a huge new deal
to keep him at Chelsea for life. Boss Phil Scolari is desperate to
hold on to the Ivory Coast star. He has told Drogba’s
representatives the club will meet the hitman’s demands to get him
to sign a four-year contract.
Drogba, 30, is on around £70,000 a week and the new
agreement could give him parity with Blues skipper John Terry — the
club’s highest earner with an estimated weekly salary of
£130,000.
Scolari said: “I want him to stay 100 per cent. No, 200
per cent.” True to his word the Brazilian has sent a clear message
to the Stamford Bridge crowd favourite that Chelsea are willing to
do whatever it takes to hang on to him. Drogba has been pining for
a move to Italy, with AC Milan or Jose Mourinho’s Inter the most
likely destinations. Barcelona are also keen on him.
Midway through last season Drog launched a vicious
verbal attack on club owner Roman Abramovich over the way he sacked
Mourinho and said he wanted to leave. But Chelsea’s offer might
prove difficult to turn down as no club in Europe could match the
terms.
Drogba’s fellow striker Claudio Pizarro is set to lead
Scolari’s Blues clear-out by quitting for Paris Saint-Germain. The
Peruvian is one of seven players the new Blues chief wants to axe.
Pizarro, 29, has flopped at the Bridge since joining on a free
transfer from Bayern Munich last summer. He made only four Premier
League starts and did not feature at all following Chelsea’s FA Cup
humiliation by Barnsley in March.
Pizarro had been expected to move back to Germany, with
Werder Bremen and Hamburg keen. But PSG hope to tie up a £3million
deal before Chelsea leave for their tour of Russia and China on
Sunday. The only stumbling block could be his £50,000-a-week wages
and he will have to take a pay cut to move to France.