Drinkwater has extended his contract:

https://www.totalrl.com/contract-extension-for-drinkwater/

DO. NOT. DO. THAT. EVER. AGAIN!

Somehow he has looked quite good vs. Bournemouth so far. 

5 hours ago, reparto corse said:

Somehow he has looked quite good vs. Bournemouth so far. 

He is involved, Baka is not, makenof that what you will.

11 hours ago, reparto corse said:

Somehow he has looked quite good vs. Bournemouth so far. 

He's not a bad player. 

He's quite a good passer of the ball and keeps things ticking over. 

It's his off the feild exploits that make him a liability. 

On 28/07/2021 at 02:46, axman2526 said:

He is involved, Baka is not, makenof that what you will.

Baka must be on his way out on another loan or hopefully a permanent deal. There is no other explanation considering he isn't injured.

With Gallagher on his way to Palace on loan and Gilmour already gone to Norwich, is Danny Drinkwater in line for the fourth midfield spot as it stands? Seems that way to me unless we sign a midfielder before the window close but I doubt we do actually.

32 minutes ago, Sindre said:

With Gallagher on his way to Palace on loan and Gilmour already gone to Norwich, is Danny Drinkwater in line for the fourth midfield spot as it stands? Seems that way to me unless we sign a midfielder before the window close but I doubt we do actually.

Funny thing is I wouldnt actually be against it if he was still at his mid 00's level, proven PL player (with a proven partnership with Kante) who would know his place regarding minutes.

However after the few years he has had it would simply be too big a gamble.

There's Barkley and Ampudu to consider too...

Edited July 30, 20214 yr by doctorblue

52 minutes ago, doctorblue said:

There's Barkley and Ampudu to consider too...

RLC. 

A long way down the pecking order 

Surely no one wants him now, he can't even make it in Turkey. Think we're going to keep him around as a homegrown player and training partner.

Drinkwater is a talented footballer, not a top footballer but he could easily make it at a mid/lower table prem team, but it does seem like because he’s getting that £100k a week from us he just can’t be bothered to play at a level he should be. At this point he’s ruined his reputation and I don’t think another premier league team would touch him 

Drinkwater has scored and assisted an Andy Carroll goal away to Swansea this afternoon.

48 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

Drinkwater has scored and assisted an Andy Carroll goal away to Swansea this afternoon.

He scored the winner.........

Finally some positive news from him! 

Fighting for a new 4 year deal

 

Must have been the worst £70 million investment in the history of football.

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.

18 minutes ago, 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.

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.

Edited May 26, 20224 yr by Argo

The worst signing, perhaps ever? Good riddance. 

My favourite memory of him is him snapping a Spurs player in an under 23s game.