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Former Everton loanee Royston Drenthe(Image: Marcel van Dorst \/ EYE4images\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\nRyan Babel has reflected on playing landlord to his one-time Dutch international team-mate during his Everton loan spell<\/p>\n
15:20, 16 Oct 2025Updated 15:21, 16 Oct 2025<\/p>\n
Former Everton loanee Royston Drenthe(Image: Marcel van Dorst \/ EYE4images\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Royston Drenthe\u2019s stint at Everton is already mired in notoriety. But he now has a new chapter added to his Blues\u2019 story – claims he built a nightclub inside the home of a former Liverpool player.<\/p>\n
Ryan Babel said he rented his home to the ex-Real Madrid star while he was on loan with Everton<\/a> and, upon revealing his plans to part ways with the property, joked his fellow Dutch international became a nightmare to host.<\/p>\n Writing on X, formerly Twitter<\/a>, Babel explained: \u201cThe time has come to pass it on to its next lucky owner. This house holds so many memories\u2026 it was the first place I moved into after leaving my parents\u2019 home, full of excitement, mistakes, and lessons. When I left Liverpool, I rented it out to a few tenants\u2026 one of them being my good old Dutch teammate Royston Drenthe. Let\u2019s just say he gave \u201ctenant from hell\u201d a new meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: Eight players could miss Man City vs Everton as reason given after Erling Haaland sent home<\/a>READ MORE: Jack Grealish makes emotional Everton transfer admission and sends message to critics<\/a><\/p>\n Among the claims made against Drenthe were that he created a club inside the home without Babel\u2019s permission. Within the post, he exclaimed: \u201cYou can\u2019t make this stuff up.\u201d<\/p>\n Drenthe\u2019s time with the Blues has gone down in ignominy, with his party lifestyle having long been a subject of rolled eyes and anecdotes from exasperated team-mates.<\/p>\n The most notorious allegation made against Drenthe was that he attempted to gain access to the jacuzzi at Everton\u2019s Finch Farm<\/a> training ground in the early hours of the morning for his personal use .<\/p>\n Recalling Drenthe\u2019s spell, former goalkeeper Tim Howard<\/a> said back in 2021: \u201cWe’re Everton, rolled sleeves up, worker bees. \u201cIn 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.<\/p>\n \u201cI 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\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Phil Jagielka, the club captain at the time, added his own reflections on Drenthe\u2019s loan spell last year when he told the BBC\u2019s Kyle Walker podcast<\/a>: \u201c[It is tough when] you either get a bad period, or when people start doubting, or you get a rogue player who doesn\u2019t want to be on time.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked for an example, he said: \u201cThe easiest one is Royston Drenthe<\/a>. We\u2019ve all heard stories about him. When someone wants to come to the training ground at 2am to use the jacuzzi for the wrong reasons\u2026The funny thing was he was so miles off it<\/a>, it was nothing to do with me.\u201d<\/p>\n Drenthe\u2019s spell came during current boss David Moyes<\/a>\u2019 first stint as Everton manager when he arrived on loan from Madrid during the 2011\/12 campaign.<\/p>\n He initially impressed, an early highlight being his stunning effort at Fulham. But the relationship unravelled and the following April he was left out of the FA Cup<\/a> semi-final defeat by Liverpool due to a discipline issue.<\/p>\n