Football: Shanghai target Drogba transfer coup

SHANGHAI: The ink is barely dry on Nicolas Anelka’s ground-breaking two-year contract with Shanghai Shenhua but already the Chinese Super League club is working to pull off another major transfer coup by signing his Chelsea teammate Didier Drogba. Shanghai Director Zhou Jun said that his club had already spoken to Drogba and were ready to continue their lavish spending if the Ivory Coast international was prepared to switch west London for the Far East. Meanwhile, Anelka will become the biggest name to ply his trade in the world’s most populous nation when the striker makes his debut in Shanghai next month.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 13^th, 2011.