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2022/23 Abdoulaye Doucouré

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This is an extension that was agreed when he signed - the club stipulated that they would like the option to either extend the deal by a year or allow his contract to expire at the end of this season. There isn't likely to have been any negotiation or change in wages, the club will have gone through the proper channels (ie his agent) to inform the player that they were exercising their right to extend the contact on it's pre-agreed terms.
I know in the Championship there is usually negotiations on wage if a player gets an extension, especially if the player is at the end of their career. The Agent probably knows the player not going to get the same wage anywhere else, I know for example at West Brom we gave Jake Livermore last season a years extension and he dropped from 24 grand to 16, his Agent probably excepted that now teams in the lower leagues would match 16 grand a week.
 
Sensible extension.

We save having to pay a fee to replace him and can put any funds towards low quanitity, high quality.
Yeah I’ve come round to this way of thinking, even if we do go down. 5m is very high in wage terms but a small amount compared to replacement cost. Doucoure isn’t brilliant but if you pay 4m for a player and pay them 1m you will save no money in year one and likely get a much worse player.

It’s not just a case of stripping everything if we go down, there has to be a balance of getting sales and still having a playing squad and letting Doucoure walk to save 5m probably on balance is a bad idea when other midfielders will certainly leave.
 
Now we’ve given him a contract extension, can we buy him a fresh pair of boots to replace the 2 left boots he’s been forced to wear this season?

He’s a tryer but he’s bloody hard to watch sometimes

May the rest of your Everton career be more glorious than the start, Abdoulaye 🙏🏻
 

Absolutely crazy to extend his contract before we are confirmed as safe? What happens if we go down over the weekend and we are stuck with him on 100 bags a week in the championship?

He won't go, because no one will pay him that and then he'll happily run his contract down
 

So much hate for Doucoure but I’ve had a look at the numbers:

Barely played under Lampard: 15 points from 20 games, joint bottom of the table.

Dyche brings him in: 12 points from 9 games up to and including Spurs.

Suspended (admittedly stupidly): 1 point from 3 games.

Comes back in: 5 points from 5 games.

Is he brilliant, no. Are the results even with him good enough, no. But the comparison suggests he’s more part of the solution than the problem.
 
So much hate for Doucoure but I’ve had a look at the numbers:

Barely played under Lampard: 15 points from 20 games, joint bottom of the table.

Dyche brings him in: 12 points from 9 games up to and including Spurs.

Suspended (admittedly stupidly): 1 point from 3 games.

Comes back in: 5 points from 5 games.

Is he brilliant, no. Are the results even with him good enough, no. But the comparison suggests he’s more part of the solution than the problem.

agree i like him sunday i will 💙 him if he helps!
 
So much hate for Doucoure but I’ve had a look at the numbers:

Barely played under Lampard: 15 points from 20 games, joint bottom of the table.

Dyche brings him in: 12 points from 9 games up to and including Spurs.

Suspended (admittedly stupidly): 1 point from 3 games.

Comes back in: 5 points from 5 games.

Is he brilliant, no. Are the results even with him good enough, no. But the comparison suggests he’s more part of the solution than the problem.
Oh he starts for us every time. But then, being five-foot-and-a-fist makes one a king among dwarfs.
 

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