Struggling Premier League champion Chelsea has held talks with Montreal Impact over former Blues striker Didier Drogba, the Major League Soccer team has said. British media reported earlier this month that Chelsea's billionaire owner Roman Abramovich was keen to offer Drogba a position on the team's coaching staff. "We are currently in contact with Didier Drogba and Chelsea FC," Montreal Impact said on its Twitter page Wednesday. "We are doing everything we can to have him back with the Impact in 2016. "We understand his (Drogba) attachment to his former club and his desire to help them. We are willing to accommodate him." The Canadian team said it was working to get Drogba back for the next season but the situation was out of its control. Drogba joined Montreal Impact in July after two stints with Chelsea, and spells in between at China's Shanghai Shenhua FC and in Turkey with Galatasaray. The Ivorian was in the stands during Chelsea's 3-1 win over Sunderland last weekend, along with interim manager Guus Hiddink. "I worked with him five or six years ago and I was delighted to have such a professional in the squad," Hiddink told British media Wednesday. "The official process (on Drogba) I do not know, but I spoke openly from the bottom of the heart that such impact players can be huge for the club," he added. Chelsea is 15th after 17 games and faces seventh-placed Watford Saturday. ‘Players must break unlucky cycle' Guus Hiddink has challenged his Chelsea players to break the negative cycle that has seen the champions lose touch with the top of the Premier League this season. Hiddink will take charge of his first game at home to Watford Saturday, having returned to Stamford Bridge for a second stint at interim manager following last week's sacking of Jose Mourinho. Chelsea is 15th in the table, 11 points behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur, after losing more than half of its opening 17 games as players such as Eden Hazard, Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas struggle to reach the heights of last season. "When you are in this cycle of not getting good results, then luck doesn't come to you either," Hiddink told Chelsea's website Thursday. "You must push the luck, but when you're in a negative cycle then it's the other way round — look at the goal conceded against Bournemouth. That happens to a team in that cycle. "That's not always to do with desire. But we must push luck now through desire." Hiddink was popular with the players when he performed a similar role in 2009 following the sacking of Luiz Felipe Scolari, but amenable as he is, he has made it clear he expects the club's under-performing players to improve. "The players have a profound obligation to perform," he said. "They are here at a big club. They are well paid. They must have this heart full of desire like an amateur. I don't need players who don't have the desire." Hiddink has not brought in his own support staff, and will work with Steve Holland and Eddie Newton who were in charge for last weekend's home win against Sunderland.
