Chelsea star Didier Drogba sets his sights on Premier League and Champions League Double

Didier Drogba has set his sights on winning the Double after admitting Carlo Ancelotti has given him a new lease of life at Chelsea.

The striker endured two turbulent seasons after the departure of his mentor Jose Mourinho and has confessed he could have left Stamford Bridge.

But he says he has found a new contentment under Ancelotti, is enjoying family life in London and says his partnership with Nicolas Anelka can fire Chelsea to success this season.

Drogba and Anelka have been in electric form to help Chelsea get off to a flying start under Ancelotti. But despite all the talk of the Italian being under pressure to deliver the Champions League this season, Drogba insists he is determined not to limit his personal ambitions to just one trophy.

“I don’t mind which, but we have to win one,” said Drogba. “Why can’t we win both [the Premier League and Champions League]?

“People are always talking about the day I said I wanted to go from here, but I’ve said I’m happy here many times and I am.

“I have my plan and I’ll stick to it, which is the most important thing - I know what I want to achieve with Chelsea. I’m here to stay and I want more success.”

Drogba, 31, signed a new three-year contract at Chelsea in the summer after Ancelotti made it clear that he was to be the focal point of his strike force.

But Ancelotti has also made the Drogba-Anelka partnership into a deadly double act - something that even last season’s caretaker boss Guus Hiddink could not achieve.

Anelka was last season’s top scorer in the Premier League and with a rejuvenated Drogba, Chelsea now have a goalscoring partnership which is already delivering.

Drogba said: “Dropping in and connecting midfield and attack like I do when I play with a strike partner is how I played with Marseille before I came to England.

“And the way I played with Damien Duff and Arjen Robben in my first two seasons here - meeting crosses and attacking balls - is how I had played with Guingamp before I moved to Marseille.

“It’s true that I love to receive the ball into feet to be given the chance to try and create something, and to pass to my team-mates. I think it makes me more unpredictable than in the other way because I can use my balance and my strength to help.”

Drogba puts his superb form this season all down to confidence and being settled at Chelsea, insisting that he loves family life and he also appears to be relishing his career as he gets older.

The Ivory Coast star added in this month’s official Chelsea magazine: “My biggest strength and my biggest weakness is my confidencem because I know what I can do. I know that I can score goals so my confidence is always high.

“Even if I’m not playing, my confidence is high, but then I think about what I could do if I was playing.

“I think that, every time my fitness is good, I play well and I score goals - people like to say every time I come back to full fitness after injury: ’Oh this is the new Drogba'.

“But there’s nothing new, I’m just scoring goals like I did before, I’m the same player.

“I feel totally settled here. I was settled in my second season in England. But it took me a bit of time in my first season because first of all my eldest kid was not happy to begin with in England and he wanted to move back to Marseille.

“Family is really important to me and I wanted to make sure that they were happy because that can be important in terms of the way you perform.

“At home, if someone is happy, then they will be happy at work, and once the first season finished it came good - my kids started to speak English and we had some friends here, so everything was much better.

“It was hard for me at first [when he first moved to Chelsea]. People need to adapt to everything when they move to a new culture - the food, the people, the way of life, it’s all different. So I had some time when I was adapting as much off the pitch as on it.

“I have had a part of my life in Africa, a part in France and I have my life in England now, so it’s a big part of my life, of course.

“My kids speak English much better than me, much better! But that’s not strange because they go to school every day and they meet proper English teachers and friends, so of course they have the accent now as well!“

*Didier Drogba was talking to Chelsea’s new official magazine which is on sale now.