Drogba : cheating his way to the top again
Reports on Tuesday appear to confirm that Didier Drogba is cheating to get to the top. No, not on the goalscoring charts, but rather interestingly, in terms of shirt sales.
Competition among the Chelsea squad is apparently fierce, with rivalries developing over who can shift the most replica shirts with their name from the official club shop.
Mr 'Popular'
It is reported that Drogba has spent thousands of pounds buying up blue strips bearing the No11 and his name in order to convince team mates like John Terry and Frank Lampard that he's just as popular as they are.
Apparently Drogba's lagging sales were a source of much jest on the training ground, so he took matters into his own hands. A Chelsea insider claims the Ivorian striker visits the club shop up to 10 times a week and on one occasion even bought 40 shirts. At £45 each, that's a staggering £1800!
Rigging The Sales Charts
As a Chelsea regular he's entitled to free shirts but he's so desperate to up his sale stats that he's dipping into his £70,000-a-week wage packet and trying to alter the standings.
"Dids is never out of the club shop," the Stamford Bridge source revealed. "He is spending a fortune. He is on first name terms with the staff and is easily their best customer. The competition to be the most popular is massive and Didier hates losing.
"He has been buying loads of copies of his number 11 shirt and must be up there with the club's top sellers by now. Dids has been sending all his replica shirts to his mates back home."
Competition among the Chelsea squad is apparently fierce, with rivalries developing over who can shift the most replica shirts with their name from the official club shop.
Mr 'Popular'
It is reported that Drogba has spent thousands of pounds buying up blue strips bearing the No11 and his name in order to convince team mates like John Terry and Frank Lampard that he's just as popular as they are.
Apparently Drogba's lagging sales were a source of much jest on the training ground, so he took matters into his own hands. A Chelsea insider claims the Ivorian striker visits the club shop up to 10 times a week and on one occasion even bought 40 shirts. At £45 each, that's a staggering £1800!
Rigging The Sales Charts
As a Chelsea regular he's entitled to free shirts but he's so desperate to up his sale stats that he's dipping into his £70,000-a-week wage packet and trying to alter the standings.
"Dids is never out of the club shop," the Stamford Bridge source revealed. "He is spending a fortune. He is on first name terms with the staff and is easily their best customer. The competition to be the most popular is massive and Didier hates losing.
"He has been buying loads of copies of his number 11 shirt and must be up there with the club's top sellers by now. Dids has been sending all his replica shirts to his mates back home."
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