Bluetintedspecs Posted 1 February 2019 Share Posted 1 February 2019 4 hours ago, Babylon said: Don't really get all this " he went for the money" stuff, there are some very bitter people on here. One of the best teams in the country saw fit to to buy him and he backed himself to make an impact. To suggest it's all about money is laughable, this isn't some tin pot Chinese club we are talking about here. Not generally bitter Babs and thank you for the condescending info about Chelsea I just didn't like the way he was almost disrespectful to the club in the way he left. I do get the big club and ambition etc etc but his haste and almost camping out at their training ground left a bitter taste and me with a bitter and twisted mind over him 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROB-THE-BLUE Posted 1 February 2019 Share Posted 1 February 2019 1 hour ago, GeorgeTheFox said: I'd have him back just cos I miss belting out his song after a few pints Just change it to "here's to you Youri Tielemans" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GeorgeTheFox Posted 1 February 2019 Popular Post Share Posted 1 February 2019 7 minutes ago, ROB-THE-BLUE said: Just change it to "here's to you Youri Tielemans" I'm stealing this and claiming I invented it cheers mate 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROB-THE-BLUE Posted 1 February 2019 Share Posted 1 February 2019 1 minute ago, GeorgeTheFox said: I'm stealing this and claiming I invented it cheers mate It's fine mate, he'll probably be a disaster anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 1 February 2019 Share Posted 1 February 2019 19 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said: I do feel sorry for him, but if he doesn't want to take a pay cut, he'll obviously not get a move. He is clearly motivated by £££. 19 hours ago, TeamRocket said: Same feel sorry for him. He should have stayed he would have only got better here but hey ho his lost our gain 19 hours ago, Heymister2015 said: Why would you feel sorry for him! He chased the cash and waisted what he’d worked his whole life to become! Agree with the last comment. chased the cash and won’t take the pay cut to play... whats there to feel sorry about? surely if he regretted it all he’d take the pay cut to play elsewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall Cockney Fox Posted 1 February 2019 Share Posted 1 February 2019 He backed himself to make it a success, but alas it didn't work out. This maybe not entirely his fault, in the same way that Silva's move to us also somehow turned to shite. I just think it's sad that his career now is defined by a pay packet, rather than the undoubted talent he has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester_Loyal Posted 1 February 2019 Share Posted 1 February 2019 3 hours ago, MPH said: Agree with the last comment. chased the cash and won’t take the pay cut to play... whats there to feel sorry about? surely if he regretted it all he’d take the pay cut to play elsewhere? Yeah, maybe sorry for him isn't the right phrase, maybe sorry for the way it's turned out. I genuinely thought he'd do ok there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldeagle Posted 1 February 2019 Share Posted 1 February 2019 5 hours ago, Bluetintedspecs said: Not generally bitter Babs and thank you for the condescending info about Chelsea I just didn't like the way he was almost disrespectful to the club in the way he left. I do get the big club and ambition etc etc but his haste and almost camping out at their training ground left a bitter taste and me with a bitter and twisted mind over him This it what gets me with him and with Mahrez it’s not that they moved so much to a bigger club for more money and chance of silverware. Lets be honest most people would move for a better job or more money . It’s the way they both went about it sulking, going on strike, faking injuries refusing to train sitting at airports or driving themselves to London this is what sticks in my throat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 1 February 2019 Share Posted 1 February 2019 3 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said: Yeah, maybe sorry for him isn't the right phrase, maybe sorry for the way it's turned out. I genuinely thought he'd do ok there. yes agree 100% with that. no one would of wanted him to fail... it’s just a big shame all round really 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamRocket Posted 2 February 2019 Share Posted 2 February 2019 13 hours ago, MPH said: Agree with the last comment. chased the cash and won’t take the pay cut to play... whats there to feel sorry about? surely if he regretted it all he’d take the pay cut to play elsewhere? Meh still feel sorry for the dude prob to up his high horse to admit it was a mistake and his agent prob has a few words on his pay cut. May mean he would need a pay cut too but who know someday he may play again. For now he will just be a myth the player that played for England and Leicester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 2 February 2019 Share Posted 2 February 2019 2 hours ago, TeamRocket said: Meh still feel sorry for the dude prob to up his high horse to admit it was a mistake and his agent prob has a few words on his pay cut. May mean he would need a pay cut too but who know someday he may play again. For now he will just be a myth the player that played for England and Leicester dont feel sorry for him- he’s earning more money than we could possibly imagine that we’d earn.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HankMarvin Posted 2 February 2019 Share Posted 2 February 2019 10 hours ago, MPH said: dont feel sorry for him- he’s earning more money than we could possibly imagine that we’d earn.. How could you feel sorry for him if he had anything about him he would choose to be playing on loan somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 2 February 2019 Share Posted 2 February 2019 1 hour ago, HankMarvin said: How could you feel sorry for him if he had anything about him he would choose to be playing on loan somewhere well he has shot himself in the foot, really. If he had gone on loan, his stock might have risen and he could have gotten himself a decent contract somewhere... but now come the end of the season it’s going to be almost two years since he’s had any kind of consecutive competitive football. There’s not many decent teams who will take a punt on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamRocket Posted 3 February 2019 Share Posted 3 February 2019 12 hours ago, MPH said: dont feel sorry for him- he’s earning more money than we could possibly imagine that we’d earn.. That is true cant argue with that at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllGoneTitsSchlupp Posted 3 February 2019 Share Posted 3 February 2019 Anyone fancy taking one for the team and getting a Telegraph subscription to post that article in here? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylofox Posted 3 February 2019 Share Posted 3 February 2019 59 minutes ago, AllGoneTitsSchlupp said: Anyone fancy taking one for the team and getting a Telegraph subscription to post that article in here? How's about spend your own fecking money and you share it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudFox Posted 3 February 2019 Share Posted 3 February 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, AllGoneTitsSchlupp said: Anyone fancy taking one for the team and getting a Telegraph subscription to post that article in here? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/02/03/clock-ticking-danny-drinkwater-prove-move-chelsea-right-decision/amp/ The Telegraph Clock is ticking for Danny Drinkwater to prove his move to Chelsea was right decision Danny Drinkwater has had limited game time at Chelsea following his move from Leicester Danny Drinkwater has had limited game time at Chelsea following his move from Leicester Sam Wallace 3 FEBRUARY 2019 • 8:00 AM On Wednesday it will be three years since Leicester City beat Manchester City 3-1 at the Etihad Stadium and embarked upon the final leg of a season that would take them all the way to the Premier League title, a stupendous series of events that feels even more improbable with the passing years. Not everyone in that side will consider it their career peak – certainly not N’Golo Kanté and possibly not Riyad Mahrez – but they will be able to say that it was at Leicester that their life changed and opportunities opened that had never seemed likely before. The decision for those who left was as defining as for those, like Jamie Vardy, who stayed, and although they might not have realised it at the time, what came next was just as crucial. Danny Drinkwater played one more season before embarking on a £35 million transfer to the champions Chelsea, which even at the time felt like a risky move. There was not the momentum that usually defines a big Chelsea signing – the belief that the new man will fulfil a role that has been underserved, in the way that centre-forward has been, and may well be again come the summer. John Terry had left in the summer of 2017 and, although Chelsea had looked at Drinkwater 12 months earlier, you wondered whether his home-grown status had ultimately made him stand out on a list of targets. It was clear why Drinkwater fancied it. This was the reward for being part of the miracle team at Leicester, and all that had come before. There had been three years on loan at four different clubs without touching the Manchester United first team. He had worked his way from his first loan in League One at Huddersfield Town in 2009-10 on to Cardiff City, then Watford and Barnsley, all in the Championship, before Leicester were convinced to make him a permanent signing. It was a grafter’s career of small steps up the ladder. There are plenty of Drinkwaters out there in the Football League, or rather there are plenty of talented boys from big-club academies who feel that they would be good enough for the Premier League given the chance, but settle in the end for a decent contract at a Football League club. As for Drinkwater, now 28, the upward curve just kept getting steeper. As Leicester marched to the title he made his debut for England at Wembley in March against Holland and was named man of the match. When you look at the CV of the boy from Altrincham who was not quite good enough for Manchester United but became one of the very few to leave and win a top-flight title elsewhere, it is hard to believe what has happened since. His last game for Chelsea was 30 minutes in the Community Shield in August and somehow last month another transfer window passed by without him insisting that he be allowed to leave to get some game time somewhere else. There were plenty of Premier League takers for Drinkwater, albeit the kind of clubs that he might have found himself at on his way up: Burnley, Cardiff, Crystal Palace and Fulham, as well as Derby County in the Championship. Hannover 96, fighting relegation from the Bundesliga, made an inquiry although Drinkwater, who has a young son who lives with the child’s mother in Manchester, was reluctant for those reasons to move abroad. No secret why it did not happen with any of the aforementioned clubs: a £2 million loan fee, plus full coverage of weekly wages in the six-figure range simply priced Drinkwater out of what was a very conservative January market. These kinds of deals are hard to do at the best of times but at the moment, with Chelsea, like others, reluctant to contemplate any kind of deal, it would have needed the player himself to force the issue. Drinkwater appears content watching his team-mates from afar. That might be the strangest part of the situation with this non-playing former England international. Drinkwater seems to have accepted his fate without much protest, content to watch from afar as his team-mates try to get to grips with Maurizio Sarri’s 4-3-3 system – one that the manager argues does not accommodate his England midfielder. Sarri says Drinkwater is a “very good player in a 4-4-2”, which is an odd observation given it is a system neither the Italian nor many other Premier League manager plays for any considerable part of the 90 minutes. In this case, it is not a transfer or a loan that Drinkwater needs, it is a time machine set to 2001. The story of players falling in and out of favour and spending time exiled from the first team is as old as the sport but most of them find a way out, however awkward it becomes. What has been so unusual about Drinkwater’s situation is just how little impetus there has been from the player to find a solution. Nine years ago he played 33 league games alone on loan at Huddersfield. Five years ago he played 45 games in Leicester’s Championship-winning season of 2013-14 and then had to win his place back the following season in the Premier League when Esteban Cambiasso arrived. His international career begs more questions, with the disappointment of being left out the Euro 2016 squad, after that man-of-the-match performance, seeming to affect his interest in the England team. Yet the club career is of a player who has got up time and again from knock-backs and proved many people wrong. Maybe he will do so again, although the clock is ticking. That Leicester title-winning team will be celebrated for decades to come and, as the boys of 2016 get older, and gather for the reunions on the 10th anniversary, and then the 15th, and the 20th, a group of ex-pros comparing grey hair and dodgy knees will be given to ask whether they made the most of their time in the game. When it came to 2015-16, the answer will be obvious, but what about the career that came after? Edited 3 February 2019 by CloudFox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Posted 3 February 2019 Share Posted 3 February 2019 (edited) EDIT Cloud Fox beat me to it Edited 3 February 2019 by Jimmy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxford blue Posted 3 February 2019 Share Posted 3 February 2019 9 hours ago, AllGoneTitsSchlupp said: Anyone fancy taking one for the team and getting a Telegraph subscription to post that article in here? If you register, you are allowed one free article a week. Is it time to move this thread to General Football - DD will not be coming back to Leicester. I think he is quite happy at Chelsea given his wages:if he wanted to play regualrly he would need to take a pay cut and he does not seem to be prepared to do that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamble92 Posted 4 February 2019 Share Posted 4 February 2019 It'd be like trying to get back a tart who left you for a man with more money and a better car. The bloke forced a move by driving to london on deadline day. **** him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpacedX Posted 5 February 2019 Share Posted 5 February 2019 7 hours ago, Gamble92 said: It'd be like trying to get back a tart who left you for a man with more money and a better car. The bloke forced a move by driving to london on deadline day. **** him Imagine that... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirminghamFox Posted 5 February 2019 Share Posted 5 February 2019 (edited) SOMEONE CLOSE THIS THREAD! HE ONLY WENT FOR THE MONEY AND HE'S HAPPY BEING PAID TO DO NADDA! Edited 5 February 2019 by BirminghamFox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowlattsFox Posted 5 February 2019 Share Posted 5 February 2019 He probably decided I'm not going to move in January for the sake of it, we don't know what sort of offers he's had, if any. Potentially upping sticks for 3 months may not seem worthwhile. Clubs are going to have to pay a fair whack even to get him on loan with his high wages. I don't know what is family situation is like but i'd be looking for a loan move abroad next season, see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazzyfox Posted 5 February 2019 Share Posted 5 February 2019 He is limited for choice by his salary demands if none of the top six fancy him. Had Everton lost Gueye to PSG then maybe that would be a good fit for him but he doesn't fit the Wolves model which leaves us and West Ham really unless a promoted Leeds Utd are able to fund it. Burnley somehow sounds a decent fit too but not unless he drops salary significantly. One factor not mentioned so much is that when he joined Chelsea there was the argument that with them already having Kante, pairing them together they would have a unit greater than the sum of its parts. The way they understood each others game here is something that could surely be recreated elsewhere. Chelsea showed early on that they weren't going to do that week in week out but I think they missed out on even trying it. The other thing with Danny at his pomp is that he becomes the heartbeat and momentum setter of your side, Chelsea I feel were never going to allow him that responsibility and as such wasted the thing he's good at, instead it's like telling a metronome to keep time with an erratic piano player! If you use him as a bit-part pardon the pun water carrier to jog around and do the basics then he's a boring barely relevant part of your make up as he has become. If you put your faith in him to set the tempo and orchestrate the teams drive forwards he's useful. Chelsea have too many bigger fish to ever allow him that role. As for his long term fitness prospects there are alarm bells considering his last year here and his time at Chelsea and his agent needs to factor that into any salary demands but the other option is he sits tight, banks his full salary and is remembered in the same way as Steve Sidwell and others who became so forgettable that I can't remember them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out Foxed Posted 13 February 2019 Share Posted 13 February 2019 On 01/02/2019 at 14:09, urban.spaceman said: exactly average Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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