Reports in England claim Chelsea star Danny Drinkwater was a victim of vicious nightclub attack as six thugs descended on him shouted after he tried to chat up another footballer’s girlfriend.
The England international, who is currently on loan at Burnley from Chelsea, was enjoying a night out in Manchester last weekend – hours after being an unused substitute in his team’s 3-0 loss to Liverpool .
According to The Sun, the Three Lions ace clashed with his fellow professional player at Manchester’s Chinawhite club that eventually saw him thrown out by security.
The paper claims that despite being warned on several occasions to calm down, Drinkwater continued to make an approach on the girlfriend of Scunthorpe United defender Kgosi Ntlhe.
Thugs jumped on the footballer’s ankle in the vicious nightclub attack and chanted: “Break his legs.”
The deliberate attempt to wreck the troubled England star’s career came after he tried to chat up a rival player’s lover.
Drunken Drinkwater, 29, was overheard crowing: “I don’t care, mate, she’s coming home with me.”
When Scunthorpe United’s Kgosi Ntlhe asked him to leave his girlfriend alone, £35million-rated midfielder Drinkwater lashed out.
The pair scuffled before bouncers at Manchester’s Chinawhite club ejected Drinkwater. Outside up to six men jumped on him, leaving him with “horrendous” injuries.
A source said: “At one point he was curled up in a ball on the ground, as they repeatedly jumped up and down on his ankle and shouting, ‘Break his legs’.”
“They knew he was a Premier League star and it was his livelihood. There was blood everywhere, and it was all incredibly nasty.”
Last week both clubs would only say he had been sidelined by a mystery ankle injury.
But the newsapaper reveals he was the victim of a vicious assault early last Sunday — hours after he was an unused sub in the 3-0 home defeat by Liverpool.
In May, he was banned from driving for 20 months after ploughing his Range Rover through a wall while twice the legal drink-drive limit.
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