Notorious Everton loanee 'built nightclub' inside home of Liverpool star

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But he now has a new chapter added to his Blues’ story - claims he built a nightclub inside the home of a former Liverpool player.Ryan Babel said he rented his home to the ex-Real Madrid star while he was on loan with Everton and, upon revealing his plans to part ways with the property, joked his fellow Dutch international became a nightmare to host.Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Babel explained: “The time has come to pass it on to its next lucky owner. 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’.”Phil Jagielka, the club captain at the time, added his own reflections on Drenthe’s loan spell last year when he told the BBC’s Kyle Walker podcast: “[It is tough when] you either get a bad period, or when people start doubting, or you get a rogue player who doesn’t want to be on time.”Asked for an example, he said: “The easiest one is Royston Drenthe.

I didn't see anything wrong with it at all.”But with the benefit of hindsight the player, who ended up playing in Russia before stints back in England, admitted he was out of order.Drenthe, who returned to the Netherlands before retiring, added: "A lot has been made in the past of my time at the club, and the kind of character I was when I joined, and people know all about my relationship with David Moyes - especially while I was a player at Goodison Park.“I think back now with a completely different mindset, though. As a 36-year-old, I can understand and appreciate the job he was doing and how I thought back when I was 25 perhaps wasn't always right."Back then, I was firmly of the belief that Moyes was simply out to prove to the other players that he could get under my skin.

We'd argue and I'd just think: 'What the f***?' 'Is he taking the p***?'.“And while there are certain occasions where I can say I still feel I was in the right, on the whole I'd say he was. But people change, and I can look back now a lot older and wiser, and I can understand why he did what he did with me."