Didier Drogba, Chelsea’s best player, never wanted to play for the club. He writes in his new autobiography*, published in French this week, that when Chelsea bought him for £24m in 2004, “it just wasn’t the team I wanted to join”.

But Marseilles wanted to sell him, and his agent said he would be stupid to turn down the salary. Then Drogba hoped he would fail his medical examination at Chelsea. “I was disgusted to sign for Chelsea,” he admits.