Well, well, well… Gervinho did have a major impact on the Premier League after all, it seems.
Former Lille coach Rudi Garcia, who is now Gervinho’s manager at Roma, has revealed the former Arsenal flop was something of an intermediary in Chelsea’s capture of midfield magician Eden Hazard. Well, sort of.
Garcia claims in his new autobiography that back in 2011 then-Lille player Gervinho picked up the phone in the dressing room to be greeted by a very demanding Didier Drogba on the end of the line.
‘Pass the phone to him [Hazard],’ Drogba is said to have barked at Gervinho. ‘There’s someone who wants to talk to him over here.’
And that person was Blues owner Roman Abramovich