4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
Yeah but he is awful, what were doing right was replacing him.
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Interesting. Imagine Juventus will need to make some sales after crashing out of CL
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
Motivated him at age 29 to understand positioning without the ball? Or how to find space when your teammates have it? Or how to pass forward?
I'm going with he's probably going to still be really bad. But the good news is we managed to build a real midfield without him relegating us.
Lets hope not, hes quite rubbish.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
Rubbish might be harsh, but I don't trust midfielders from Serie A and he's a very weird player who you can't just plug into a system randomly and not have holes in what you do.
Personally, it'd be naive to move him on before the summer for that very reason.
Dymak
Player Valuation: £40m
Doucoure is not very good and will turn 30 in January. If we can find someone stupid enough to buy him, then we should sell him ASAP. He’s very much part of that absolutely crap central midfield that almost got us relegated last season, most of which have been binned off already.
…posters understandably focus on the misplaced passes but Doucoure has always been more about what he does without the ball than with it. He has powers of recovery and get goal side of attackers.
i reckon Lampard sees him as a valuable member of the squad and will take the option on giving him an extra season here. Doucoure has gone from being a regular (I recall posters being dismayed when he was out injured for a spell) to being a bit-part player, which is a sign of how we’ve strengthened in that area of the pitch.
i reckon Lampard sees him as a valuable member of the squad and will take the option on giving him an extra season here. Doucoure has gone from being a regular (I recall posters being dismayed when he was out injured for a spell) to being a bit-part player, which is a sign of how we’ve strengthened in that area of the pitch.
He isn’t.
malcson
Player Valuation: £10m
I doubt it, he’s not even first choice substitute and on a hefty wage.
….much depends on the match situation & which player needs replacing. It’s encouraging Lampard is utilising Garner but there will be situations when we are getting overrun when the Manager needs running power on the pitch, especially if Onana isn’t playing.
We need a strong squad with options covered & Doucoure helps that strategy.
If he's only got 18 months left on his contract and he's not in the manager's plans, then selling him in January would seem like a no brainer
If the manager is keen to keep him and it's not going to break the bank to extend the contract for a year or two then I don't see the issue really
I don't think he's amazing or anything like that, but he's a solid squad player for the most part
If the manager is keen to keep him and it's not going to break the bank to extend the contract for a year or two then I don't see the issue really
I don't think he's amazing or anything like that, but he's a solid squad player for the most part
malcson
Player Valuation: £10m
Agree we need strong squad options and cover, I just think Doucoure is too expensive to be a 3rd choice option. We need back up options that offer the chance to change a game positively and effect a result. Doucoure is merely not a bad option in a situation when we need cover. No one thinks “oh good Doucs is coming on”. It’s a shame because at his peak he looked like he could be a great box to box midfielder, sadly he has regressed quicker than Iwobi as progressed.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
He's not awful though. He is a perfectly adequate premier league midfielder. Not everybody needs to be a superstar.
John from Bootle
Player Valuation: £8m
Is he too expensive to keep though? Unless he hands in a transfer request, he'll be a due a wedge off us, should we sell him. We'll then likely have to pay a signing fee, agents fee(s) and transfer fee, and wages for any incoming squad replacement. though granted, we would then have another asset.
I believe we have the option of extending his contract by a year. If he's on say, £100k a week, then to keep him around for the next two and a half years, will cost us about £13 million, all in.
Having said all that, I could understand us moving him on.
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