Shanghai Shenhua players Didier Drogba (L), Nicolas Anelka (C) and Argentinian manager Sergio Batista (R) chat during a training session in Shanghai on July 16, 2012. Didier Drogba was given a hero's welcome as he arrived in China to start a two-and-a-half-year contract that is expected to make him one of football's highest-paid players.