Is Drogba done?

Didier Drogba has spent the last few seasons in England causing Arsenal defenders to have restless nights, as well as causing the rest of the Premier League to stand back and admire the absolutely phenomenal talents that he has demonstrated during his time in the Premier League.

However, although Drogba started the season causing defences no end of problems, and looked absolutely certain to end the season with the golden boot, he has since turned into a man who has failed to do anything except look like a player who is a mere shadow of his former self. With the Chelsea betting suggesting the side are in a real scrap to finish fourth, fans could be left ruing the fact he wasn't replaced sooner.

With Drogba having looked like he has never quite recovered from the bout of malaria that saw his form take a dramatically rapid nosedive, and with his new partnership with Torres looking as likely to bloom as a rose that has been left in a desert and has no access to water, fans as well as the media are beginning to ask the question as to whether Drogba has another season left in him at the top level. The Andy Gray Betfair Football predictions suggest not.

This may seem a little unfair, and certainly does not appear to be the kind of question that you would have even dreamed of asking last season, but Drogba has been so poor and so uninspiring that it is difficult to imagine how he is going to stand a chance of starting for Chelsea next season after the expected summer clearout at the end of the campaign that is likely to see many of the originally successful team for Chelsea shipped out of the club and replaced by a new generation of potential stars.

Should Drogba somehow defy his age and form and come back with a bang in the second half of the season, then maybe, just maybe, we may not have seen the last of the old Drog after all.