Doucouré talks about a 'very difficult season' at Everton

We tend to collectively forget footballers are humans and can be affected by stuff that goes on off the field.

Hopefully whatever was affecting him is behind him now.

He was a stand-out performer once Dyche came in so hopefully he will hit the ground running as an important first-team player next season.

Agree that the No 10 position is the only one that he can play in. Yet, aside from goals, he's a poor man's No 10: doesn't really create opportunities, low number of assists, doesn't dictate play, doesn't impact the flow of a game.

He does offer hard running and, towards the end of the season, some excellent finishes. He's physical and determined and strong.

Do we need Onana if we have Doucouré playing? Would Onana do well to base his game on Doucouré?

Anyway, great that he came up trumps for us when we needed it. And boy, did he!!

Most of his goals are first-time efforts and a couple of peaches included!

One of our better players?

£200M and you can have him.

Assuming we don't change our style too much next season, Dyche has clearly found a role for him in which he's particularly effective.

Guess that would get you dropped. Even if it was (is) the truth.

Also wonder if Pochettino took up Lampard's offer of advice on the Chelsea squad? My money's on a resounding ‘Thanks but I'm alright'!

If it was indeed our club, we would not be letting it be ruined right under our own noses, would we? We need to accept that if someone was taking a crap on our own car, parked outside our own house, we wouldn't put up with it, would we? Why? Because it is ours.

The club we follow is not ours. We think it is but it is now owned by Moshiri. If it was ours, we would take it off him for fucking around with it… but we can't, can we? Why? Because it is his.

We are not able to do fuck-all. It is his toy.

Clubs go out of business because the owner fucks it up. His club is going the same way. We lost our grip on it long ago.

This is not meant to be inflammatory, it's just fucking dawned on me. He's been given a first generation Action Man and thrown away the box and now he's kicking it around his garden.

Staggering!

He needs to use his frame more but needs the awareness to sense where the safe possession pass is made. Several one touch passes in the middle of the pitch tells me he can make that position work and with a better possession player up front he could drop back for pressuring the midfield effectively.

He's got stuff we can use and he has character that enhances our club. One to keep in my opinion.

He banged in 5 in something like 15 games, so extending him an additional year was a no-brainer given our current situation.

Scotland really started to get it together when they put him up front as a big, strong #9 & he's done really well for them since, albeit he had covid & took a long time to recover, during his long absence his club side QPR suffered badly, sliding from 6th to almost relegation fodder (sound familiar)?
If we really are skint, he'd cost a lot less than Gyorkores et al & would offer a lot more than Maupay that's for sure. Check out his goal & assist last week for Scotland in the Euro qualifiers.

I'm very appreciative of some of those goals late in the season but he's a pretty before average footballer. There can't be many less technically gifted players to have been given a #10 type role in the top division (granted it's a different version of an attacking midfielder/#10).

For now, he's what we've got and we're not realistically replacing him. Let's hope one day soon we're in a position to say he's not good enough for us.