Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has hinted that may return to French club Marseille as he intends to carry on his playing career.
Drogba is currently a free agent after leaving Montreal Impact last year following one-and-a-half-seasons in Major League Soccer.
The ex-Chelsea star, who has won four Premier League titles during his playing days, is determined to keep his career on the field going and has some options.
Drogba, who made his name in European football while playing for Marseille, has hinted that he could return to the French club as he weighs up his next move.
“There is an option to return to France, but I will no say more,” Drogba told Canal Plus.
“I hope to be able to hold my promise one day [to return to Marseille], it can be done. You just have to take the time to sit down and talk.
“My comeback at Marseille is the eternal question for more than 12 years now. Every time I respond, and people say I’m just talking. But you let a player go, and financially he is making a good living since then, and now you want him to come back and divide his salary in two?
“And after that, you say he doesn’t like Marseille. Who works to earn less? No one.
“I would like to come back as a player. I even did what was necessary to make it happen. But I can’t force the board to bring me back.”
From 1998 to 2004, Drogba played in France with Le Mans, Guingamp and then Marseille in 2003/04.
It was that season when he scored 32 goals in all competitions and earned his blockbuster summer move to Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea, where he became the focal point of their attack for the next eight years.
Now, at the age of 38, he may only get one more chance to play for his former club.
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