Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has once again made it clear that Didier Drogba will not be allowed to leave Stamford Bridge this summer.

There had been speculation that the Ivory Coast international would be transferred from the Premiership champions following the arrival of Andriy Shevchenko from AC Milan but Mourinho has dismissed such talk.

"A lot of people were speaking about Andriy to come and Didier Drogba to go but that was never, never, never the idea," Mourinho told Chelsea TV.

"They are two strikers with very different qualities.

"Andriy has creativity speed with the ball, movement, intelligence, he is an amazing player.

"Didier is strong, powerful, a fighter, fantastic in creating spaces for other people to score.

"Andriy has a lot of times played 4-4-2 in Milan like Chelsea do a lot of times with a diamond in midfield and two strikers."

The 28-year-old old Drogba, who intimated last month that he would like to leave the club, has scored 22 goals in 55 Premiership games for Chelsea since his £24million transfer from Marseille almost two years ago.