Confirmed Signing Abdoulaye Doucouré

[jamieni]

Watford absolutely despise us and will force us to pay way over what he’s worth. Can see this dragging on like Sigurdsson & then when it happens everyone but the club questions WTF we were doing agreeing on an absurd fee

We seemed to deal with them ok over Richarlison. I dare say we’ll have to pay through the nose for him but i don’t think they’ll refuse to sell or anything.

 

[Winslow89]

Really not sure on him. And anything over £20m would not seem like a good deal.

People need to stop the "he'd improve our midfield tho" . Almost any midfielder on the planet would do this.

We’ll probably give him a solid payday. Our ability to broker a profitable deal is worse than most.

 

[tnc85]

Him and Allan - yes.

 

[Bluestar]

Really not sure on him. And anything over £20m would not seem like a good deal.

People need to stop the "he'd improve our midfield tho" . Almost any midfielder on the planet would do this.

I agree mate, besides which we would be paying the PL premium for him. We need to be finding Unknown players of similar quality. Every year a bundle get signed from France for peanuts that become solis PL players.

 

[bitter-no-better]

It’s better to make the comparison against Sigs, Gomes and Delph for 2019/20 stats surely?

Sig is not a CM. Gomes and Delph did not play many games. Comparison for players at top teams with similar game time. For a player in a relegated team.

 

[barneygumble]

What if he’s never boss, will you hold your hands up or stay in denial forever like all the Sigurdsson fanboys?

I was put in my place back then, so i guess i'd crawl back into the Doucoure shadows.

I'm not a fanboy, just thought with them going down we'd get a cheap midfielder whos not Davies or Sigfraud.

 

[bitter-no-better]

But he passes forward

Correct. And more likely to have passes intercepted.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Cannot see this dragging on at all. This will be a quick raid on a relegated club. Do you want our money or not?

 

[ProZ]

An upside down mop forked into the ground would be an improvement on Davies so I am fully onboard with this improvement for the right price.

 

[PeregrineT]

An upside down mop forked into the ground would be an improvement on Davies so I am fully onboard with this improvement for the right price.

Wait, that was a player????

I had just assumed that was an upside down mop that kept getting forgotten by the grounds crew before matches.

 

[Carlito]

I think he'd be a disaster in a 4-4-2.

 

[Gilbert..]

Cannot see this dragging on at all. This will be a quick raid on a relegated club. Do you want our money or not?

This is Everton. They will hold us to ransom and we'll prob end up paying 40m if the last few years are anything to go by.

 

[DaChunk]

So he isnt the Niasse of midfielders?

 

[ToffeeDevil]

So he isnt the Niasse of midfielders?

there can only be one prince

 

[Furey1878]

Player	Doucore	Wijnaldum	Fred	Sissoko	HojbJerg
Games	37	37	29	29	33
Goals	4	4	0	2	0
Assists	2	0	0	1	1
Shots	61	36	40	15	46
Shots per game	1.6	1.0	1.4	0.5	1.4
Big chances Created	6	0	0	3	0
Passes	1678	1625	1668	1246	1823
Pass completion %	78.30%	90.80%	87.40%	87.40%	78.00%
Passes forward	479	325	441	298	672
Passes Back	266	336	208	254	299
Crosses	29	5	63	23	27
Dispossessed	31	30	26	21	26
Blocks	8	4	8	4	5
Tackles Won	30	20	32	25	49
Clearences	31	33	27	35	49
Aerial Battles Won	55	30	9	26	55

Some decent stats in comparison with players in similar position (CM). Looks like our back up option to Holjberg and if signed he should give us more of a goal threat and a presence in both boxes which we have not had since Felliani.

Comes out quite well there.

I’d defo have him just know Watford will try and rinse us and as he’s came from a relegated team people can write him off fast.

Hope people recall Gueye and McCarthy were good signings (before McCarthy turned to glass) and came from relegated sides.