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Danny Drinkwater

Huh yeah right "disaster" for you Danny boy. Had multiple chances to get out of this deal and back to playing football but you chose the Bogarde route and acted unprofessionally with every chance you got. Clearly football and playing mattered very little to you.

 
He started off not too bad for us, unfortunately Conte was playing power games and continued with Bakayoko as a protest to club signings. He deserved to play.

But after that his head dropped and didn't even maintain his level to play in the PL, if he did we could have made up more money through higher level loans.

Overall a complete sh*t show from all parties, even the club for being a position to panic buy, if it wasn't Drinkwater it would have been Oxlade-Chamberlain anyway.

 
sonic90 said:
He started off not too bad for us, unfortunately Conte was playing power games and continued with Bakayoko as a protest to club signings. He deserved to play.

But after that his head dropped and didn't even maintain his level to play in the PL, if he did we could have made up more money through higher level loans.

Overall a complete sh*t show from all parties, even the club for being a position to panic buy, if it wasn't Drinkwater it would have been Oxlade-Chamberlain anyway.
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Unpopular opinion but i wasn't actually against the signing initially, i mean i say that I thought the price and wages were obscene but the player in himself I thought would do quite well in Conte's system. His biggest strength was long passes on the counter to progress the attack before the opponent can regroup which on paper was perfect for us at that time.

I think regarding his head dropping i think that happened when he realised this move wasn't going to work. I imagine after the taste of the top with Leicester's title win and then getting a move here (in which he still got a FA Cup winners medal despite everything) he just didn't have it in him to fully commit back to the journeyman life, atleast not straight away.

 
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Argo said:
Unpopular opinion but i wasn't actually against the signing initially, i mean i say that I thought the price and wages were obscene but the player in himself I thought would do quite well in Conte's system. His biggest strength was long passes on the counter to progress the attack before the opponent can regroup which on paper was perfect for us at that time.

I think regarding his head dropping i think that happened when he realised this move wasn't going to work. I imagine after the taste of the top with Leicester's title win and then getting a move here (in which he still got a FA Cup winners medal despite everything) he just didn't have it in him to fully commit back to the journeyman life, atleast not straight away.
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I think he was ready to give it another go in his 2nd season, the manager who would not play him for political reasons was gone but then the new manager Sarri immediately buys a personal favourite in Jorginho. Drinkwater is feeble minded but he didn't really stand a chance, by the time Lamps came and was prepared to give him a chance to impress in pre season, his head was gone.

 
Bizarre and easily the worst signing in terms of return on the field, I can't even remember a single good moment from him, maybe he did score a goal? Hopefully this is the kind of lesson the new owner will learn from

 
icecoolguy22 said:
Bizarre and easily the worst signing in terms of return on the field, I can't even remember a single good moment from him, maybe he did score a goal? Hopefully this is the kind of lesson the new owner will learn from
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He actually scored a great goal for us once. Apart from that yeah terrible signing.


 
Couldn’t believe when we let chalobah and matrix go for 40-45 mil and signed DD for 35 mil..absolute disaster of a window.. not a single target secured ..

we went after Sandro and signed Emerson.. we went after OX and signed zappacosta.. we went after lukaku unsigned morata.. we went after the big Cf who chose spurs ..heads should have rolled after the dross we collected immediately after winning the league..

a lot of it was also conte .. he wasted a glorious season with hazard at his prime and probably cost us The snake too

 
Selling a story, He could of left at any time and was being paid a fortune

boo hooo

Another twazza tbh

 
See he made 32 appearance for Reading last year on loan will be interesting to see if he gets a deal with them. 

 
Look you half bakes, we made a mistake, but that season Leicester won the PL Him and Ngolo ripped up the PL, hind sight is a wonderful virtue, and his move didn’t pan out, but patting yourself on the back for such self grandiosing, well Jog on, hope he sorts his demons, and plays on a bit….

 
It's always difficult with these sorts of players, Chelsea clearly wanted to see the back of him and he knew he had no future. It was obvious after his second season. There's a few things which stopped him; his salary, his professionalism and his performances on loan. He is a talented player and was a very good mid table midfielder, however, by seeing out his contract at Chelsea he will be looking at being a championship player. No team at his level could match his salary he was earning at Chelsea and I think most people would see out such a lucrative contract but he didn't do himself any favours with instances like fighting with his teammates or his drinking 

 
Ballack & Blu said:
Look you half bakes, we made a mistake, but that season Leicester won the PL Him and Ngolo ripped up the PL, hind sight is a wonderful virtue, and his move didn’t pan out, but patting yourself on the back for such self grandiosing, well Jog on, hope he sorts his demons, and plays on a bit….
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Thats exactly what you do when you tell a load of cosh excuses as to why he sat on the bench or in the reserves and dossed about half the time around london drink driving lambos about 

Bad signing, Wasn't anywhere near Kante, Back to the championship he will go, His level

 
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