Anyone noticed Danny boy?

[Kitchandro]

2 minutes ago, Rogstanley said:

Why? Because England had a pensioner behaving as though gripped by dementia in charge.

 

Agree that Drinkwater is pretty much guaranteed a spot on the bench in russia now he makes occasional cameos for Chelsea though, and he obviously thinks that justifies the move so good luck to him.

True.

 

But let's remember Southgate picked Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain the other month, who was shockingly out of form and first team football but was conveniently in the headlines that week. What a coincidence.

[Stevosevic]

He wouldn't have been able to play for us until last week anyway

[jayfox26]

16 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

Yet Drinkwater wasn't on the plane even when bang in form and still had little competition. Why? Because he played for Leicester.

 

He knew that, and that's one of the reasons he was off like a shot as soon as he got the chance.

Vardy always makes the squad though. I reckon the money had a little to do with it, not just his England chances. Livermore makes the squad every time and he doesn't play for a top team. Drinky should have made the squad for the euros but his form lasr season didnt warrant him getting a place in the England squad. If he'd have stayed here and re captured his title winning form then he'd have been going to Russia. Hodgson was a dinosaur and just picked names and players for big teams. Southgate is picking Livermore and our very own Maguire and vardy. Michael Keane gets picked for the squad and hes not at a big club. 

 

I get what you're saying though that shit players like oxlade chamberlain get picked. And the decision to pick wilshere over drinky for the euros was one of the worst decisions ever made in football! 

[brucey]

7 minutes ago, Stevosevic said:

He wouldn't have been able to play for us until last week anyway

Still not fully fit I think, which tbf is probably why he's been on the bench 

[pazzerfox]

Nobody seems to want to pass to him!  His role basically consists of getting the ball, passing it to Hazard and then running back to try and protect the defence.

[Strokes]

38 minutes ago, SheppyFox said:

Ridiculous reply, we have ambitions now.

He started games in our title winning season.

[winteriscoming]

I don't care what anyone says hes a player youd rather have with us than against us. We do miss his creativity and link up play with vardy. I admit he wasnt as good last season but who was from the season we won the League. From a finacial point of view it was good business but we messed up the silva deal. 

[Redouane]

Why are you treating Drinky like a traitor? If you were in his shoes, would you reject Chelsea?

[weller54]

1 minute ago, Redouane said:

Why are you treating Drinky like a traitor? If you were in his shoes, would you reject Chelsea?

Nope!.... 

[Gerard]

Kante going was a sickner.

 

Drinkwater going for £35m was just great business especially when you consider he's been poor for nine months allegedly carrying an injury that never seemed to heal. I think it's safe to say we sold him at his peak value and you won't go far wrong selling any player at their peak value.

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

1 hour ago, Collymore said:

We haven't seen Silva's room service bill yet with all the time on his hands. 

[Collymore]

8 minutes ago, Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo said:

or time on one hand

[AKCJ]

40 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

Yet Drinkwater wasn't on the plane even when bang in form and still had little competition. Why? Because he played for Leicester.

 

He knew that, and that's one of the reasons he was off like a shot as soon as he got the chance.

Vardy has been in the England squad when in wretched form before.

[themightyfin]

Typical Foxestalk.

Slag a player off for showing ambition who has been a great servant and player for us.

[Vardinio'sCat]

 

Do you remember when Drinky was 'pretending' to be injured before he got sold, and that was a fact. What a rotter that man is eh, disgraceful behaviour from someone we thought of as a Leicester legend, insert some other BS holier-than-thou moral outrage etc etc

 

And then when he got to Chelsea, he was still injured! 

 

 It reminds me of his 'alleged' injury from last year, which, of course (to anyone who could be arsed to use Google), was a real thing he played through for about half a season. Basically posters on here didn't want the truth, they just wanted there opinions confirmed, pure confirmation bias.

 

So why are we bitter at someone who didn't want to stay at a club where half the fans thought he was a c**t.

 

 

 

 

[HighPeakFox]

5 minutes ago, Vardinio'sCat said:

 

Do you remember when Drinky was 'pretending' to be injured before he got sold, and that was a fact. What a rotter that man is eh, disgraceful behaviour from someone we thought of as a Leicester legend, insert some other BS holier-than-thou moral outrage etc etc

 

And then when he got to Chelsea, he was still injured! 

 

 It reminds me of his 'alleged' injury from last year, which, of course (to anyone who could be arsed to use Google), was a real thing he played through for about half a season. Basically posters on here didn't want the truth, they just wanted there opinions confirmed, pure confirmation bias.

 

So why are we bitter at someone who didn't want to stay at a club where half the fans thought he was a c**t.

 

 

 

 

Because c**ts always have to be right, because otherwise they have to admit they're a c**t, and might implode.

[Strokes]

2 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Because c**ts always have to be right, because otherwise they have to admit they're a c**t, and might implode.

Im a cúnt and so are you.

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, Strokes said:

Im a cúnt and so are you.

Speak for yourself - I'm wrong plenty, and go out of my way not to be a c**t to people.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

2 hours ago, Bazly said:

I don't think we have missed Drinky at all following a pretty terrible last 3/4 of last season and even the Chelsea faithful must be wondering at the worth of their acquisition who has only managed 11 minutes of league football this season so far. Really pleased Mahrez didn't get the move he wanted though.

 

 

Sometime, the bench is a great place.

 

Good stock image

[Strokes]

2 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Speak for yourself - I'm wrong plenty, and go out of my way not to be a c**t to people.

I just wanted to see if either of us imploded but i guess you cant take the risk.

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, Strokes said:

I just wanted to see if either of us imploded but i guess you cant take the risk.

Ah, it's late. Let me try. 

 

No, I can't bring myself to risk it, you're right

[GaelicFox]

2 hours ago, Sampson said:

Think we were desperately missing him until a couple of games ago tbh.

 

Think this thread comes across as both very bitter toward a great player in our history while simultaneously shooting your load too early.

They all went mental when he didn’t go to the World Cup with England  

 

 

[Stadt]

Until Iborra was fit we desperately missed him. We’ll still miss him (although not as much) until Silva’s up to speed. Last season an unfit, unhappy (?) Drinkwater was still our best midfielder as he was our CM competent defensively and in possession of the ball.

 

I’m disappointed he left but he was both a brilliant signing and player for us and I still respect what he did for us in his time here.

[Chester Dontlie]

1 hour ago, weller54 said:

Nope!.... 

You know, I'm starting to understand him. I wouldn't be opposed to warming the bench for Chelsea myself

[bluesbrothers]

Right, I'm just going to say it.

Danny Drinkwater was awful last year. Like, really bad. Apart from one or two displays (Sevilla and Liverpool, perhaps), he was found out time and time again as somebody who needs players around him to give him space before he can be anything approaching creative. Saying the team as a whole was struggling isn't really an excuse, because his job is to be a playmaker and lead by example, and he didn't do that and has arguably never done it at this level by his own accord.

 

Yes, our midfield has been bad since he's left, but A) it was just as bad with him still in it for 95% of last year and B) it would still be bad now unless Iborra stepped up to be that "freeing influence" for Drinkwater. Oh, and C) ... he'd only have started playing a fortnight ago since he's been out all season injured, so the "what might have been" scenario is pointless anyway!

 

There's no questioning his value in the title season, but the year that followed it raised serious questions over his lack of ability to be a midfield kingpin without somebody like Kanté to do the dirty work. But the thing is, the signs had been there even before that season.

He was bang average the season before the title win, and only looked good in patches towards the end of the season when Cambiasso got into his own stride and gave him some breathing room through the "Great Escape" - and even then, he was still bang average most of the time in a team relying on wing play to Ulloa for most of our goalscoring threat. With the exception of the promotion season, at a lower level no less, he has not had a single full season where you could genuinely say that he was the one pulling the strings in midfield as somebody of his supposed caliber really should do.

Maybe he'll grow and get into Chelsea's first team, but I highly doubt it. 

If in a year's time he's Chelsea's first choice, I'll hold my hands up and say I was wrong. But right now I see him behind Kanté, Fabregas and even Bakayoko in the pecking order for two spots. He will not get the time to impress or time to rectify his mistakes that he got with us. Kanté has enough class to make anybody around him look like worldbeaters, so maybe if by some miracle he ends up in a regular midfield 2 with him at Chelsea we might see some of that rekindled, but heaven knows he can't even get into the first XI for a Chelsea side at a low ebb despite now supposedly being fully match fit, so what hope does he have of managing it when they go on a good run, save for injuries or lucking out by being in the team when they finally hit a consistent vein of form?

He hasn't had enough game time to make a full judgement yet, but I've followed the Chelsea games where he has played and he's been nothing to write home about whatsoever. Even tonight, apart from a shot on goal he did nothing - admittedly in a beaten and deflated side, but nothing nonetheless. Conte brought him on to try to control midfield with Fabregas tiring, and he didn't - Roma still over-ran Chelsea and looked more likely to bag in the closing stages.

 

As others have pointed out, Drinkwater's fee has covered the price of Iborra and, pending January, Silva too. With Iborra now finding his feet and, for the record, doing what Drinkwater has not done himself in 3 seasons by starting to conduct the midfield by his own accord, if Silva himself comes good once the FIFA farce is over, it will be very good business indeed.

Thank you for your service to the club Danny, but it's beginning to look like you've made the wrong move and we're laughing all the way to the bank.

Right, gotta sleep, but feel free to lay into me and tell me how wrong I am and how we'd be in the Champo's League spots now with Drinky still in the side. 

 

... you watch him start this weekend and d1ck the league now