Abdoulaye Doucoure unwilling to take salary cut to stay at Everton

Be careful what you wish for. You will struggle to find any supporter who thinks you should stay and be paid the king's ransom you already have.

All about the money. I think that you may have upset/annoyed those supporters who believed just how keen and motivated to stay with us. Not true is it? Crocodile tears.

New era. Leave the Moshiri mess behind, including most of the players such as Doucoure, who are holding the club to ransom.

Moshiri and the greatest ever Evertonian aren't there anymore to grant you your wish.

But for that salary, he is a very poor footballer in terms of ability and basic passing. He has been extremely poor this season despite scoring a few goals. He has lost pace as well and isn't as aggressive as he was few years back.

With the new stadium, a new Everton era begins. We have to replace these players with hard working but skilful players who can impact games consistently positive.

Beyond 30, best running years behind him.

He could have stayed on reduced salary as a squad player, but not on these terms. We can do better.

No other club in Europe will pay him what Everton do. Saudi it is then.

Well, yes, to us he has. He's one of the very few players we've had who make a genuinely positive difference to the way we play. He's one of the very few successful purchases we've made.

You've only got to compare our win ratio with him in and him out of the side. Problem for him is his best attributes are shown when we don't have the ball. And that just doesn't float people's boats. And he's 33.

Sorry Doucs. He goes with our heartfelt thanks for being a top pro, but there's no way you're getting that money next season — even if compared with Mason Holgate and Michael Keane and the 20 other wasters, you've been worth your weight in gold.

If he wants more money good luck to him, I don't see anything wrong in what he's saying it's his opinion, time to say goodbye

His goal in the first minute at Brighton, followed by a second to put us 2 - 0 up en-route to a 5 - 1 win.

I didn't know at the time, but a certain Alexis Mac Allistar pulled one back for the Seagulls, but we were out of sight by then and McNeil thumped home the 5th.

Good luck to him, but if there was any chance of him staying at Everton, he's just talked himself out of it. He probably knew anyway.

I think a lot of fans don’t seem to realise why managers love him so much, as he’s one of the best players in the league out of possession, especially leading the press, closing down spaces and blocking passing lanes for opponents trying to build attacks.

However, as others have pointed out, the actual technical side of using the football makes him look pretty mediocre. I want us to move on to more technical players like Alcaraz and N’Diaye, even if it means losing a bit of the unappreciated work that Doucoure is so good at.

Forever grateful for that winner against Bournemouth,

There's nothing wrong with wanting a few quid, regardless of how high your wages are - being paid £100k a week or whatever he gets, doesn't stop you wanting more. It's a consequence of living in a capitalist society.

He's a footballer so he gets a lot of stick, but he's not doing anything the rest of us wouldn't in the same situation.

I don't rate him as a footballer - managers like him because he runs about a lot (see Jack Harrison)

I certainly can't see another Premier League club offering him £130k a week.

Can't really blame him. Leaving Saudi-style money on the table would be impossible for most players. And very few would swallow the loss of face attached to the kind of salary reduction that's being suggested.

I get that the money football players are on is obscene but that isn't Abdoulaye Doucoure's fault.

I wish him well.

Good luck getting paid a fortune Abdoulaye.

These modern day footballers are so incredibly disconnected from the real world it’s hard to believe. Surrounded by money grabbing agents, wags and hangers on telling them they’re the greatest thing since jammy dodgers were invented. No wonder they live in dreamland.

A man who can’t pass the ball, successfully, further than 5 yards to a team mate should be on £500 p/w max. Not a penny more.

I was doing a job in a shop, and asked for a few more bob, at the same time as asking for some time off. Not my smartest move in life (to be fair, I was 13).

The boss said “I think you are looking to work for an hour a day, with an hour off for lunch. Off you pop”.

It stuck with me.

But he doesn’t Ray: ‘No, I should have an increase. I’m only 33 years old and think I have three, four years easily in the Premier League’.

And he’s also either a lying twat or getting bad information: ‘There were a couple of players playing for Everton, I’m sorry, on an even higher salary and not playing as much’.

Loving the past tense.

You should also learn to shut your big mouth up lad when it might be the right thing for you to do. I suspect that most Evertonians want to see the back of this £130k mediocrity who runs around a lot and scores the odd goal. But now with this stream of deluded mammon shite a good proportion of them will be thinking of you less kindly.

There’s only one place you are going to Ab Lucre and you deserve each other.

Keep talking in the past tense please.

I reckon he’d be taking a hefty pay cut.

Sounds like VAR for players wages...

Dicko’s is now a very pleasant bar, “Around Eight”, occasionally frequented early doors on a Friday.

Good luck finding a team willing to pay you more than the £130k per week the club have been paying for a few goals per season for a middle-distance runner with little to no creativity and poor passing range.

Think Sheedy, Steven, Kanchelskis, Speed, Arteta. This is the level we need to aspire to.

• Salah's new contract = £400,000 per week

• Combined goals and assists 2024-25 = 46 (28 goals and 18 assists)

• Cost per goal/assist = £8,695.65

• Doucoure's goals and assists 2024-25 = 4 (3 goals and 1 assist)

• Based on Salah's contract and applying the same multiple, Doucoure should be on: £34,782.61 per week (£8,695.65 x 4)

In summary, fuck you, Doucoure.

Obviously he'll lose out to "Mo".

Round Eight, just looked it up. Not been there Peter, we'll have to raise glasses to the blues next time I'm in L23 mate.

Not much more to say that hasn’t already been said above ….

… except one final point to add …

… this gentleman was responsible for getting 3 kopites sent off at the end of the last ever Goodison derby.

Count them.
Not one. Not two … but three of them.

That alone means he will always have my eternal thanks.

Brilliant!

Pity for you to leave believing you should be paid even more. You lose the chance of a dignified exit.

Thanks for your service. Bye Bye.

I'm sure that will haunt him for ....

If he thinks he's worth more and is prepared to stick to that then fair enough. He's not worth that at Everton but maybe someone else will pay him well.

Goodbye and Good Luck.

“being paid £100k a week or whatever he gets, doesn't stop you wanting more. It's a consequence of living in a capitalist society.” There is nothing inherent in capitalism that says you MUST be greedy. That only becomes the inevitable consequence when you remove moral values.

“A stunner that sadly also-rans like me could only look at.” Hang on PF. Didn’t you say that sharing a taxi to Goodison from Lime Street with Amanda Holden resulted in both of you missing the game? Are you now saying that the failure to make it to the stadium was due to an RTA and a trip to A&E?

“paying extra salary for an extension can sometimes be a better bet than replacement especially given how weak a squad that we have.” Well, perhaps, but PSR is heavily affected by wages and ‘sometimes’ it may be be better to redistribute the money, especially if you are actually taking steps to strengthen the squad (which you can’t do simply by retaining the same lot).

“Seriously who would take a pay cut if they didn't have too?” But that does happen though, doesn’t it? In real life, and sometimes to footballers as well?