Tim Howard has slammed former Everton teammate Royston Drenthe for his 'horrific' behaviour during a short and dreadful loan spell on Merseyside.
Dutch winger Drenthe spent the 2011/12 season on loan from Real Madrid, where he was widely regarded as one of the most promising young wingers in Europe, but failed to live up to expectation at Goodison Park with just four goals in 27 appearances. The pacey winger was told to stay away from the club towards the end of the campaign after returning late from compassionate leave and being left out of David Moyes ' FA Cup semi-final squad.
And, speaking to fellow goalkeeper Ben Foster this week, former Blues shot-stopper Howard has lambasted the one-cap international's 'horrific' attitude amid a story that he once brought his friends to use the training ground's hot tub in the middle of the night.
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“We had some wrong'uns at Everton as well, and those are the ones that stood out more than anything,” Howard told Ben Foster’s Fozcast. “One was horrific, Royston Drenthe. We're Everton, rolled sleeves up, worker bees.
“In comes Royston in Rolls-Royces to training, bowls in with his shoes untied, he has to run the perimeter of the training ground because he's always late, his eyes were half open... you were just at Real Madrid, what are you doing here? This is weird.
“I guess he'd never heard of CCTV and he ended up coming to the training ground in the middle of the night with friends, and they're in the hot tub... you're just thinking 'You're at the wrong club here mate’.
“Roberto Martinez, who I love, brings in Samuel Eto'o and I was thinking, again, you're at the wrong club, by the way. With the watches and the cars, I think he's one of the richest footballers to ever play. But Royston, wow, you could write a book on that.”
The Dutchman went on a journeyman career after leaving Madrid in 2012, featuring for nine clubs across six different countries, including Real Murcia in Spain where he currently plays, aged 35. In 2020, Drenthe declared bankruptcy after losing £3.2million, saying: "I thought I was God... I loved women and partying too much."
Speaking on the incident with Moyes that saw him banished from Goodison Park, Drenthe recalled a blunt meeting with the Blues manager that ended with him departing for the Netherlands and never coming back.
“I was waiting outside the room, whereas I probably should have just walked in quietly and taken a seat," Drenthe said back in 2019. “When I went in afterwards, Moyes told me to f*** off. I should have accepted it, but I said, ‘What do you mean, f*** off, bro? You f*** off’.
“And then I left for Holland and didn’t come back. If I’d adapted more to Moyes I think I’d have reaped the benefits, as initially I did play a lot under him.”
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