HOW MANY SEASONS DID DIDIER DROGBA SPENT AT OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLE BEFORE JOINING CHELSEA FC IN 2004?

Didier Drogba in Marseille's colours

Signed from Guingamp for a fee of £3.3 million by Olympique Marseille in the summer of 2003,  Didier Drogba spent just one season at the Stade Valedrome. 

He appeared in 35 games and scored 19 goals in all competition especially the 5 goals he scored in the UEFA Champions League and 6 goals he delivered in the UEFA Cup in that same season. 

He subsequently signed for Chelsea FC in the summer of 2004 for £24 million under Jose Mourinho till 2012 where he became their fourth highest goalscorer of all time with 157 goals in all official competition behind of Frank Lampard.