Royston Drenthe opened up on the regrets he has from his time with Everton.
Drenthe joined the Blues on a season-long loan deal from Real Madrid in September 2011, after spending the previous two campaigns on loan at La Liga side Hercules. The Dutch international got off to a dream start at Goodison Park by coming off the bench and scoring for his new side in their 3-1 win over Wigan Athletic.
However, things quickly took a turn for the worse for the midfielder who, after various rumours about bad behaviour, was eventually omitted from his side's squad for their FA Cup semi-final defeat by Liverpool due to what Everton called 'a disciplinary matter'. A statement from the Blues at the time added: "This has been dealt with internally. The club will make no further comment."
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Drenthe has previously revealed how he and Moyes both used foul and abusive language at each other before the FA Cup semi-final loss to Liverpool in 2012, before he left the club’s training ground and never returned.
“I was waiting outside the room, whereas I probably should have just walked in quietly and taken a seat,” he explains to the Four Four Two magazine when recalling the row.
“When I went in afterwards, Moyes told me to f**k off. I should have accepted it, but I said: ‘What do you mean, f**k off, bro? You f**k 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.”
While in a recent interview with Italian publication Gazzetta dello Sport, the former Holland international revealed some of the main reasons behind his turbulent career, which included spells in Russia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates as well as spending time back in England with Reading and Sheffield Wednesday.
He said: “I was twenty years old and at the peak of my career. It was my dream to walk into the Real Madrid dressing room, I will never forget that.
“But you have a life as a footballer and a life as a human being. You can mix that up to a point, but I didn't see the need to change my lifestyle right away. Now I am aware that I didn't do the right thing, that I made mistakes. I wasn't ready to be a pro.
“I thought I was God, loved women and to party too much and you can't combine that with football. I learn something new every time, but what happened, happened.”
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