Grant: No decision over Drogba op

CHELSEA manager Avram Grant insists no decision has yet been taken on whether striker Didier Drogba will undergo an operation to solve a knee problem.

The Ivory Coast international is set to miss today’s Barclays Premier League clash with Sunderland and will probably not be required for next week’s Champions League clash with Valencia as the Blues have already qualified for the next phase.

But as the game after that is away to leaders Arsenal the Chelsea hierarchy are desperate to be able to field a player their manager declared was the “best striker in the world”. The player’s own priorities are understood to be slightly different however as Drogba is keen to be fit in time to lead the Ivory Coast into the African Nations Cup, which starts next month.