MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
There is a set of things that basically sum up my entire conceptualization of Doucoure before the comments:
Should be put on gardening leave for the remainder of his contract. Terrible player with an atrocious attitude. As has been said many, many times, yeah he scored that goal, but he was absolutely one of the main reasons we were down there in the first place.
- Sitting on the ball during warmups because he wasn't picked. Every time I remember it, I just shake my head at how he ever played for Everton again afterwards, let alone got a contract extension.
- The fact that in 13 years as a professional, he has finished the season on a team in the top half of its league table exactly twice (once in 9th, once in 10th)
- That time that Ellis Simms took a ball near the halfway line and played him through with a perfect diagonal, giving Doucoure yards of space unmarked, but Doucoure basically tripped over the ball and nothing came of it (Simms did the same thing on the other side to Iwobi, who drew a penalty, in a different game)
- He's supposedly out there as some pressing superstar or something (because he is genuinely so bad in attack that's the only thing he could be picked for) but is in reality not particularly proficient in winning the ball, and the two people who should've been in his spot this whole time (Charly and Ndiaye) are actually significantly better than him defensively while offering a lot more in attack.
People love to talk about the goal that kept us up but not the stupid petulant red card against Spurs for trying to gauge Harry Kane’s eyeballs out that cost us two points, led to a 3 game suspension and put us in the position where we needed the last day goal in the first place.