“PSG offered me a contract, but I got up and left”

Didier Drogbaformer Chelsea striker between 2004 and 2015 and 48-year-old former Ivorian international, has revealed in an interview on the French television program ‘Les Stratèges’, that at the beginning of the 90s, when he was a player for French side Levallois-Perret and his entire career was yet to be exploited, PSG He made him an offer that he rejected.

“I was in Levallois-Perret, around the time of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. And, secretly, I signed up for a football club. Paris Saint-Germain saw me. I was in a prefabricated building, waiting for them to bring me an advance on the contract. I saw all the advantages: the car (if you have a driving license), the football boots… It was a very tempting offer. It was a dream come true,” he admits.

But in the end, Drogba did not accept PSG’s offer: “There was one sentence that surprised me. The coach explained to me that if I had a good season, there was a good chance that I would stay and they would give me a new contract, maybe even a professional one. But if things didn’t go well and I got injured, I was waiting for the next generation, so it was going to be difficult. So I was facing real competition. Afterwards, he gave me five minutes to bring me the signed contract, and I don’t know why, but I got up and left. The The truth is that I didn’t understand it.”