🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Danny Drinkwater

[LAM09 7,052]

It’s not even that that’s the worst for me. We literally have his position in the squad covered in Kanté and Bakayoko. Such an unecessary buy. Doesn’t offer anything different. Constantly injured. On quite high wages also.
He isn’t an elite passer, isn’t great at influencing the midfield, isn’t that athletic, just offers nothing interesting.
Who ever sanctioned/recommended this signing needs to be sacked. 

It was another last minute deal to appease Conte & he's HG.

[communicate 2,703]

13 hours ago, The Skipper said:

It’s not even that that’s the worst for me. We literally have his position in the squad covered in Kanté and Bakayoko. Such an unecessary buy. Doesn’t offer anything different. Constantly injured. On quite high wages also.

He isn’t an elite passer, isn’t great at influencing the midfield, isn’t that athletic, just offers nothing interesting.

Who ever sanctioned/recommended this signing needs to be sacked. 

I don't get it what do you mean by we have this position covered with Baka and kante. I think people forget how porous our defense look when fab play in two man midfield early season when Baka was injured. Plus he is hg which is a bonus 

 

[DDA 9,938]

36 million??? 

Holy shit, we must be up there as the biggest mugs in football. 

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

Pointless signing he's not needed and sometimes you have to wonder about footballers. If he stayed at Leicester he's an automatic start and may force his way back into the England squad. Joins us knowing full well he's going to be a benchwarmer and gets the odd game where he looks extremely average ( anyone could have shined against Stoke). Scott Parker was the same too good for Charlton not good enough for Chelsea. Of course money is a massive factor and the spotlight that comes with playing for Chelsea but surely there were better options than him for that sort of money.

[ulvhedin 526]

13 minutes ago, Iggy Doonican said:

Pointless signing he's not needed and sometimes you have to wonder about footballers. If he stayed at Leicester he's an automatic start and may force his way back into the England squad. Joins us knowing full well he's going to be a benchwarmer and gets the odd game where he looks extremely average ( anyone could have shined against Stoke). Scott Parker was the same too good for Charlton not good enough for Chelsea. Of course money is a massive factor and the spotlight that comes with playing for Chelsea but surely there were better options than him for that sort of money.

I think some players just want to try (and risk to fail) with bigger clubs (and win some more trophies). After his career is over he would think 'at least I try' instead of thinking 'What if...'

[The Skipper 20,609]

6 hours ago, communicate said:

I don't get it what do you mean by we have this position covered with Baka and kante. I think people forget how porous our defense look when fab play in two man midfield early season when Baka was injured. Plus he is hg which is a bonus 

 

I meant his role, basically. We have two DMs already so why sign another squad filler for £35m? Who isn’t even really offering anything more than Chalobah for example. Drinkwater was injured when we signed him too. It’s just not a great signing.  

[manpe 10,861]

11 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

I meant his role, basically. We have two DMs already so why sign another squad filler for £35m? Who isn’t even really offering anything more than Chalobah for example. Drinkwater was injured when we signed him too. It’s just not a great signing.  

Definition of panic buy. We probably have good relations with Leicester and the club reverted to somebody they knew they could sign 100% when it was clear we needed somebody, same with Zappacosta, hence them being the definitions of panic buys on deadline day.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

11 minutes ago, manpe said:

Definition of panic buy. We probably have good relations with Leicester and the club reverted to somebody they knew they could sign 100% when it was clear we needed somebody, same with Zappacosta, hence them being the definitions of panic buys on deadline day.

Matic was sold late in July. We had ample time to scout a decent replacement for him but we were linked with Drinkwater from day one. It boils my blood because we could've signed a very good player for 36m yet ended up with someone who makes Mikel's passing look adventurous.

[Tomo 21,751]

3 hours ago, Iggy Doonican said:

Pointless signing he's not needed and sometimes you have to wonder about footballers. If he stayed at Leicester he's an automatic start and may force his way back into the England squad. Joins us knowing full well he's going to be a benchwarmer and gets the odd game where he looks extremely average ( anyone could have shined against Stoke). Scott Parker was the same too good for Charlton not good enough for Chelsea. Of course money is a massive factor and the spotlight that comes with playing for Chelsea but surely there were better options than him for that sort of money.

He won the league with his Leicester but lost out on a Euro 2016 place to Jack Wilshere who barely played all season. 

He's probably got a bigger chance playing squad player with us than staying at The Foxes, he rightly or wrongly. 

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, The Skipper said:

I meant his role, basically. We have two DMs already so why sign another squad filler for £35m? Who isn’t even really offering anything more than Chalobah for example. Drinkwater was injured when we signed him too. It’s just not a great signing.  

It's disgusting that after so many years, our one and only creative CM is Fabregas. We have been constantly filling the squad with workhorses and not players who can help us going forward. With Fabregas going downhill already, who the heck are we gonna get?

[manpe 10,861]

14 minutes ago, Jason said:

It's disgusting that after so many years, our one and only creative CM is Fabregas. We have been constantly filling the squad with workhorses and not players who can help us going forward. With Fabregas going downhill already, who the heck are we gonna get?

We got Barkley.

[Jase 43,479]

Just now, manpe said:

We got Barkley.

He has the talent/potential but jury is still out on him.

[communicate 2,703]

2 hours ago, The Skipper said:

I meant his role, basically. We have two DMs already so why sign another squad filler for £35m? Who isn’t even really offering anything more than Chalobah for example. Drinkwater was injured when we signed him too. It’s just not a great signing.  

But we played with 2 dm, certainly you need at least 3. I am not sure what happen with chalobah but at that point we really need another cm who is comfortable playing in midfield 2

[The Skipper 20,609]

3 hours ago, communicate said:

But we played with 2 dm, certainly you need at least 3. I am not sure what happen with chalobah but at that point we really need another cm who is comfortable playing in midfield 2

So why go for Drinkwater when he doesn’t offer anything new? Just because he’s home grown? We could’ve maybe gone for someone like Wilshere as well then who was on the market at that time... I’m sure I don’t have to list the amount of CMs we could’ve bought with that £35m instead. As mentioned above on here, Matic was sold months before - they had plenty of time; a lot of it was wasted on trying to negotiate on the Drinkwater deal. He surely wasn’t/shouldn’t have been our only option. There are plenty of good CMs about who would’ve cost the same or even less. 

[Dazzy_Vance 454]

Poor signing

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Haha this guy is just perfect example why its funny when fans here overexaggerate over average players and pretend they are quality.

After his fluke goal everyone was saying he can take quality shots, literaly every shot he attempted after went miles away from target. 

What an absolute fuckup of a transfer to get this guy who is absolutely absolutely average and slow.

And we paid 40 fucking millions? Yes he is english but come on, in that case we should just throw bit more for Sterling or Shaw back in the day.

I literaly cant understand the board decisions, Sterling for 50 would be too much, but Drinkwater for 40 isnt? 

And there is a long list of players who have no place here.

I know we needed more squad depth, but now we are paying shitload for absolutely average players. 

[DDA 9,938]

48 minutes ago, BlueLyon said:

Haha this guy is just perfect example why its funny when fans here overexaggerate over average players and pretend they are quality.

After his fluke goal everyone was saying he can take quality shots, literaly every shot he attempted after went miles away from target. 

What an absolute fuckup of a transfer to get this guy who is absolutely absolutely average and slow.

And we paid 40 fucking millions? Yes he is english but come on, in that case we should just throw bit more for Sterling or Shaw back in the day.

I literaly cant understand the board decisions, Sterling for 50 would be too much, but Drinkwater for 40 isnt? 

And there is a long list of players who have no place here.

I know we needed more squad depth, but now we are paying shitload for absolutely average players. 

We are living in crazy times at The Bridge.

[The Skipper 20,609]

This guy really is just the midfield version of Cahill. Wow. 

[DDA 9,938]

I really don't want to hate, I'm trying my hardest not to but seriously, how the fuck has the lad managed to wear our badge??????? 

It's a fucking pisstake.

[Georgy 439]

25 minutes ago, DDA said:

I really don't want to hate, I'm trying my hardest not to but seriously, how the fuck has the lad managed to wear our badge??????? 

It's a fucking pisstake.

I need to laugh otherwise I'd be crying but I once said our midfield composed with Barkley, Cesc, Drinkwater, Bakayoko is the worst in the Top 6 by far. Where is that user that was making fun of me saying I'm trolling.