Danny Drinkwater’s performance hasn’t gone down well with Aston Villa fans.
It’s fair to say that Danny Drinkwater is struggling at Aston Villa.
The Chelsea midfielder joined the Villans on a half-season loan earlier this month but his Premier League debut ended in a 6-1 defeat by Manchester City at the West Midlands.
And his return to Villa Park didn’t go all that smoothly either after lasting only 56 minutes of this evening’s dramatic 2-1 win over Watford.
Troy Deeney fired the visitors into a 1-0 half-time lead and the Premier League champion with Leicester City in 2016 struggled in a major way.
In and out of possession, Drinkwater didn’t add a great deal to Aston Villa’s performance in a positive way.
And here’s how fans reacted to his display:
Drinkwater, who also played the 1-1 draw at Brighton this past weekend, is earning around £110,000 per week at Stamford Bridge [The Express] and the worrying thing is that Aston Villa be paying a significant chunk of that.
Even if they’re only paying three-quarters of that, it’s still an awful lot of money for a player who, at the moment, has a lot of work to do in order to get supporters back onside.
Douglas Luiz equalised for Dean Smith’s side midway through the second half, before a last-gasp Ezri Konsa goal saw the hosts snatch all three points.
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