rjw63 Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 hour ago, sir_gary_cahill said: Not at all, what is your job? Are you there now? It would be entertaining What's happened to the real @sir_gary_cahill? You are obviously a comedic stand-in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 minute ago, rjw63 said: What's happened to the real @sir_gary_cahill? You are obviously a comedic stand-in Not at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Just sack the word removed now as the season will be cancelled anyway but at least we wont have to continue paying his wages! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiltorken Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Don't rely care that much about the headbutting, just prefer to see the back of him because he's crap. Jog on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 6 minutes ago, kiltorken said: Don't rely care that much about the headbutting, just prefer to see the back of him because he's crap. Jog on Why do you think he is crap? Chelsea paid £30m for him not so long ago, did they think he was crap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiltorken Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 2 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said: Why do you think he is crap? Chelsea paid £30m for him not so long ago, did they think he was crap? I think he can play football but he's obscenely off the pace, he was a vital cog in a Leicester title winning team 4 or 5 years ago which is why they bought him. That drinkwater seems to have gone. On evidence of watching him this season for us he either isn't bothered or or hasn't got the legs any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 33 minutes ago, kiltorken said: I think he can play football but he's obscenely off the pace, he was a vital cog in a Leicester title winning team 4 or 5 years ago which is why they bought him. That drinkwater seems to have gone. On evidence of watching him this season for us he either isn't bothered or or hasn't got the legs any more. He’s only 30, he should have a few more years left in him. When he gets on the ball and sprays passes around, he’s great to watch but sadly I think the damage has already been done 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted March 14, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 14, 2020 I was up for this experiment but it has only served to show how few options we had last window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 A complete and utter word removed is acting as such, who would have thought it? Get him out the club. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted March 14, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 14, 2020 Doubt we will see home in a villa shirt again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 11 hours ago, Nigel said: Doubt we will see home in a villa shirt again! That's fine as long as Drinkwater doesn't wear one too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashingqwerty Posted March 16, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 16, 2020 Was a DS signing, and undoubtedly the worst signing we've made. A fitting indictment of a manager not up to the task of building a pl team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 On 13/03/2020 at 22:23, kiltorken said: he either isn't bothered or or hasn't got the legs any more. It's probably both. When he got called up for England apparently he wasn't interested in playing for them at all. Never a good sign that a player actually likes playing football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, flashingqwerty said: Was a DS signing, and undoubtedly the worst signing we've made. A fitting indictment of a manager not up to the task of building a pl team. Did we have much of a choice? We needed a midfielder badly, who could we have realistically got? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashingqwerty Posted March 16, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 16, 2020 10 minutes ago, Zatman said: Did we have much of a choice? We needed a midfielder badly, who could we have realistically got? Given the amount of playing time he has had, the trouble he has caused, the poor performances in the small playing time he has had, i'd have rather not have signed anyone. I'm not a scout, but there were more than 20 central midfielders signed by premier league clubs in january, so to say there were no other options is nieve. There are plenty of players across europe we might have approached on loan. But i say again, based on what he has brought to the club, i firmly believe that not signing him would have been better. I find it difficult to understand how anyone could hold a different view based on how poor he has been, and the friction in the squad he has caused, and his overall poor behaviour. Terrible signing, and as i say, a firm reflection of how DS is simply not up to the task of assembling a squad capable of competing at this level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 22 minutes ago, flashingqwerty said: there were more than 20 central midfielders signed by premier league clubs in january Were there?! Excluding both loans that ended or were made permanent as signings it only looks like 5 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted March 16, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, flashingqwerty said: Was a DS signing, and undoubtedly the worst signing we've made. A fitting indictment of a manager not up to the task of building a pl team. Was it? John Terry had a part to play in it. Drinkwater obviously has underlying issues that we haven't got the time to deal with. He needs to be removed from the squad, we should not be expected to pay his wages its gross misconduct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashingqwerty Posted March 16, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 16, 2020 17 minutes ago, tinker said: Was it? John Terry had a part to play in it. Drinkwater obviously has underlying issues that we haven't got the time to deal with. He needs to be removed from the squad, we should not be expected to pay his wages its gross misconduct. Look at quotes directly from DS where he says the signing was made because of the desire in drinkwaters eyes and how ds had wanted to sign him in the summer but was beaten to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Sam-AVFC said: Were there?! Excluding both loans that ended or were made permanent as signings it only looks like 5 or so. Yeah was looking at it myself and not many centre midfielders were signed in January. Drinkwater has been shit but was a gamble and its all we could attract in the market especially when we also needed a striker and goalkeeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashingqwerty Posted March 17, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 17, 2020 8 hours ago, Sam-AVFC said: Were there?! Excluding both loans that ended or were made permanent as signings it only looks like 5 or so. 1. Bruno Fernandes 2. Ben Sheaf 3. Emile Smith Rowe 4. James Olayinka 5. Matt Butcher 6. Aaron Mooy 7. Alex Dobre 8. Max Sanders 9. James Tilley 10. Tudor Baluta 11. Henry Ogunby 12. Josh Brownhill 13. Scott Banks 14. Takumi Minamino 15. Nabil Bentaleb 16. Stan Flaherty 17. Ondreij Duda 18. Lukas Rupp 19. Melvin Sitti 20. Jack Rodwell 21. Sander Berge 22. Jacob Maddox 23. Gedson Fernandes 24. Giovanni lo Celso 25. Tomas Soucek 26. Enzo Loiodice Thats after a brief look at transfers just involving pl teams. I'm not saying we could or should have signed any of these, but i doubt any of them could have been worse or more damaging signings than drinkwater. And of course this list doesnt include the many, many, other players we might have been able to sign, that never moved in the jan window. So to say there were no other options is piffle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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