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Confirmed Signing Abdoulaye Doucouré

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Possibly I'm not sure. I know in the Bundesliga (at least for the first few game weeks after restart) there was a very very low percentage of home wins.

I dont know if I understand your post tho are you agreeing or disagreeing with me? lol

My point is that we lose our home advantage against all of the bigger sides because we play them at home with no fans. The reverse fixtures will then be played when fans are back in hence they will have their advantage against us
I’m also not sure if I’m agreeing or not
 
do you mean without fans ? a simple look at our results over the Last few years in The normal situation with Fans will surely illustrate that that isn’t the case .
Results in lockdown football have shown that there is virtually no advantage at home without fans. I’m too hungover to understand if that is good or bad news for us
 
Results in lockdown football have shown that there is virtually no advantage at home without fans. I’m too hungover to understand if that is good or bad news for us

sorry yeah that’s why I qualified it at the start , I think the lack of fans clearly levels that off . The villa game for example , I think we win that with fans . I also don’t think the likes of Norwich’s home form collapses completely with fans .
 

Fulham and Wolves have met Watford‘s asking price for Doucoure according to talkshite.

I’m not too bothered if we sign Allan...

Same. I mean i have just clicked out of that Allan thread. A player who's played for a good Napoli side in CL games and serie A. From a player not far off same age whos never won a full international cap and played for Granada and watford. Unless im missing something here and he was watfords stand out player.
 
Very good explanation.

Only thing is that i think he would get in the RS team based on his performances for Napoli. Hopefully they translate to the premier league..


I dont understand how stats over a season can be used when a player has:

-- played under 3 or 4 managers
-- played in 3 or 4 positions

He has said in the past hes best as a DM. Something to think about is that as he gets older perhaps he can transition into an anchor.

I'm not sure his positional play or discipline is good enough to play in that position.
 
Swear some people on here are just WUMs, looking for kick offs, and I'm really tired of the statto virgins and age concern wannabes on all these transfer threads, wetting their beds over Big gay Als advancing senility or Doucoures shitty passing stats.

Lies, damn lies and statistics - you can do anything you what you want with stats - I'll lash them in the bin, ta.

Does doucoure have a better ball winning percentile than ya ma when playing in the pissing rain and running uphill with a greggs steak bake under their arm - that's a key metric for me.

Let's be honest, he's been playing for a basket case of a club, with about 12 managers for the last few seasons, all of whom have most likely asked him to do slightly different things when they have taken over, so his stats aren't the be all and end all.

For my money, he has always impressed me when we've played against them, and in other games I've watched Watford in (much more so than that donkey Hojberg for saints) - he is progressive, doesn't go hiding & looks for the ball and to make things happen in dangerous areas, and is a unit with an engine, which is the complete opposite of the garbage we currently have in our midfield, so I'll trust my eyes and my own opinion on the lad over any stats, and personally I think he can do more than a decent job for us.

I will also trust the Don if he wants this fella.

When I see what a limited manager like Pearson got out of the lad recently, I am hopeful the Don could do even better with him.
 

Swear some people on here are just WUMs, looking for kick offs, and I'm really tired of the statto virgins and age concern wannabes on all these transfer threads, wetting their beds over Big gay Als advancing senility or Doucoures shitty passing stats.

Lies, damn lies and statistics - you can do anything you what you want with stats - I'll lash them in the bin, ta.

Does doucoure have a better ball winning percentile than ya ma when playing in the pissing rain and running uphill with a greggs steak bake under their arm - that's a key metric for me.

Let's be honest, he's been playing for a basket case of a club, with about 12 managers for the last few seasons, all of whom have most likely asked him to do slightly different things when they have taken over, so his stats aren't the be all and end all.

For my money, he has always impressed me when we've played against them, and in other games I've watched Watford in (much more so than that donkey Hojberg for saints) - he is progressive, doesn't go hiding & looks for the ball and to make things happen in dangerous areas, and is a unit with an engine, which is the complete opposite of the garbage we currently have in our midfield, so I'll trust my eyes and my own opinion on the lad over any stats, and personally I think he can do more than a decent job for us.

I will also trust the Don if he wants this fella.

When I see what a limited manager like Pearson got out of the lad recently, I am hopeful the Don could do even better with him.

Take your word for it as i dont really know much about him. Or watched him.
I just look at nearly 28 and height of his career is watford and granada. And thinking if he is any good he would have played for better than that by 27.
 

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