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In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
Drogba was a weird one. There's a few season in there where I think he had 5 league goals or something like that. But then the second it got to CL latter stages or maybe a cup game at Wembley he'd go Super Saiyan unplayable. Is that enough to justify him being classed as one of the all time great PL strikers? There's only two seasons, 07 and 10, where he was anywhere close to being prolific. Then there's a whole host of other league campaigns where his goal scoring record is pretty mediocre, like for what Chelsea signed him for, which was quite a lot of money back then there's times where you'd almost put him down as a flop but what he did in League Cup finals, FA Cup finals, semi-finals, CL games, winning them the CL arguably on his own and of course his excellent 09-10 season means that you can almost overlook his poor seasons because he's given them so much and contributed so much.
In his first two seasons in England he rotated with Eidur and Crespo, so the numbers he had then were good given his game time in the keague...I am pretty certain he spent most of 07-09 trying to leave Chelsea as he was unhappy Jose was sacked so that would probably explain those poor numbers...post 2010 think he just started to decline a bit, was still great in their Champions League 2012 campaign, but he had to pace himself more between games than he did before.