Didier Drogba Jabs Fernando Torres: "He Was A King At Liverpool - At Chelsea There Were 22 Kings"

Drogba, who was often in straight rivalry to Torres for game time, has given suggestions that the striker at all times faced an uphill fight in trying to make the measure up from red to blue.

Didier Drogba has hinted £50m flop Fernando Torres was always destined to fail at Chelsea.

Feeling Blue? Drogba has hinted Torres wasn't cut out for Chelsea

The Spaniard failed to back-up his British record price tag in a supremely underwhelming four-year spell at Stamford Bridge, before heading home to Atletico Madrid a year ago.

And Drogba, who was often in direct competition to Torres for playing time, has suggested that the striker always faced an uphill battle in trying to make the step up from red to blue.

"With all due respect to Liverpool , at that club, Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres had been the kings," he says in his new book, Commitment .

"At Chelsea, there were twenty-two kings."

Drogba also warns that Jose Mourinho ’s reign at Chelsea could again be blighted by a return of the third year blues.

Stamford Bridge legend Drogba believes “things often come in three-year cycles” - as under-fire Mourinho struggles mightily having returned for a second spell in charge of the west Londoners before the 2013-14 season.

Recalling the end of the Special One’s first stint as Chelsea manager in September 2007, Drogba said: “I believe things often come in three-year cycles (and) we had arrived at the end of such a cycle.

“By the start of the fourth (season) that Jose had been in charge, I think we had started to reach a point where it was sometimes harder for his message to get through.

“We wanted to hear it, we tried, but somehow we had lost a little bit of what made us special.”

Mourinho is under pressure following Chelsea’s worst ever start to a Premier League season . They are 16th in the Premier League, having lost seven of their 12 games - and 10 of 19 in all competitions.

Drogba’s revelations will be ominous to many Blues fans in light of their club’s current woes.

But the striker also hands Mourinho a timely boost with a ringing endorsement of his long-time Blues boss.

Drogba said: “One of his many qualities is that he brings a winning mentality to all the teams he manages. Once you know how to do it, you never forget, it stays with you for ever. And that is what he does with his players, at whichever club he is at.

“The majority of coaches when they arrive at a new club, they will say, “I’ll try to win but it will be difficult.’ Jose says, ‘I’m here to win.’

"That rubs off on his players.”

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