He's 33 years old on top pay ....
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2024/25 Abdoulaye Doucoure
- Thread starter alwaysblue
- Start date
Great header for the offside goal but watching him labour around the pitch is a tad excruciating.
witchdoc187
Player Valuation: £60m
Poundland Paulo Wanchope. Amazes me how he can't pass to a teammate. Wicked goal v Bournemouth though
Both underwhelming footballers, last day goals to keep the club up with strikes they would have fluffed 4 out of 5 times. Shambles that the club hasn’t advanced in starting footballers. He doesn’t pick himself and is physically beasted by the setup though
He was 28 when he signed his contract going into his prime years…
Yeah but that contract was about to expire when he signed an extension to make him our top earner...
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
In the modern game prime years are closer to over at 28 than starting. When you have a technically deficient player who gets by because he does have good mobility, stamina and physicality that is even more true.
I’m 20 years time Doucoure and McNeil will be doing the after dinner speaker circuit charging £50 a head to talk about how their goals saved us from relegation and recanting stories of their time under dyche
Dire stuff
Dire stuff
SuperKev91
Player Valuation: £1m
Tim is really promising, but we have 0 points with him.
5 points with Doucoure.
No he’s not the answer, yes Tim needs more game time. But not at the expense of our safety. Tim/Dixon/O’Brien are not a generational talent like Branthwaite at all.
Mate , having a player that can’t kick a football in the centre of the pitch is a recipe for failure.
Over the course of a season having a decent footballer in there will trails more points than playing with one that can’t pass a ball
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
The Doucoure Paradox goes back at least to the Lampard era: yes we all think he’s rubbish but we undeniably get better results with him in the team, and that continues this season.
So I guess the question is, if a bad player improves the results of the team, are they a bad player?
LiamMadrid
Player Valuation: £225k
We need Doucs experience and passion, he gets stuck in and works hard and does the simple things, can score the odd goal too, he is obviously no Messi but it is what it is, we need the likes of Garner and Doucs to fight for us
LiamMadrid
Player Valuation: £225k
I am definitely not happy with the inconsistency of Tim and Jesper and the latter's squandered chances and attitude/weakness
LiamMadrid
Player Valuation: £225k
I definitely wouldn't depend on Tim or Jesper to come on late in games and fight to keep draws or hold onto a lead, I would play them from the start and bench them at half time if not playing well
Ralphie Boy
Player Valuation: £8m
Tim is rallly improving I totally agree but stating we have no points when he plays is utter bollox and he played today and we got three points.
The general consensus around the ground is that we have to persevere with Tim,he is better than Doucoure who is a reliability.
You are obviously on the side of Dyche ball otherwise Doucoure would get no where near the staring line up and when your team are bolloxed you would be using your last two subs that went unused to freshen up.
Even your heroDoucoure was blowing out of his arse with Dyches other favourite McNeill but left on the pitch.
The reasoning of points to player tha play is pathetic this early in the season, we have got our points so far this season because teams that we got points from have failed to finish us off, we have lost points for the same reason.
We are three athletic players away from being a strong mid to top half team the margins are that tight for the also ran teams, the margins just havent been with us and it is not because of Bambi!