Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has himself pulled out a skeleton from his closet which all but indicates his long fostered fascination to play for the Italian giants AC Milan.

The Ivory Coast international is under tremendous speculation to leave Stamford Bridge in the summer and switch to the red-and-black half of Milan. British tabloid The Mirror has already reported that Drogba has struck a three-year deal with Milan and that the deal is going to be finalized soon.

But what has now surfaced is the most definitive indicator yet of Didier Drogba’s inclination to play for Milan. In a passage in his recent autobiography, Drogba has scripted that in the 2006-2007 season, he actually went to Milan without informing his then Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho to discuss transfer talks with Paolo Maldino and Adriano Galliani.

Droga further writes that he expressed his keenness to join Milan before long and asked the then Milan vice-president Galliani to talk to Chelsea and settle on a transfer fee. Drogba was honest with this clandestine meeting with Mourinho on his return to London but the Portuguese’s reaction was obviously not something that one would like to know.

This is what Drogba quotes Mourinho as saying:

“OK, seeing as we are not kids we are going to talk.

“I trusted you - I've done everything for you and there you are telling me you're going to the dentist in Paris when in fact you're in Milan talking over your transfer.

“You lied to me. You didn't keep your word. Have you been badly brought up or what?”

Of course, Drogba emerged as one of the best and prolific strikers that season as he scored a whooping 34 goals for Chelsea but this stark revelation could be one way of demonstrating that he wants to move on (to Milan) now.

Didier Drogba fosters a very healthy and intimate relation with Jose Mourinho and was thought to have been deeply affected by Mourinho’s departure from Chelsea earlier in the 2007-2008 season. That is considered as another of the key reasons why he would like a move away from the Bridge this summer.