Popular Post Callum Posted May 10 Popular Post Share Posted May 10 19 minutes ago, ROTTERDAM1982 said: What is his favoured position? Dougie Style? (ok I’m sorry mods, I’ll stop now) 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alakagom Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 (edited) Called up to the Brazil team for Copa America, no Joelinton due to injury so he may get quite a lot playing time but I believe the favoured midfield lately was Guimares-Gomes-Paqueta. Midfielders: Andreas Pereira (Fulham), Bruno Guimarães (Newcastle), Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa), João Gomes (Wolverhampton) and Lucas Paquetá (West Ham); Kinda funny for Brazil entire midfield to be from what most would consider midtable Premier League teams Edited May 10 by Alakagom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Simon Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 6 minutes ago, Alakagom said: Called up to the Brazil team for Copa America, no Joelinton due to injury so he may get quite a lot playing time but I believe the favoured midfield lately was Guimares-Gomes-Paqueta. Midfielders: Andreas Pereira (Fulham), Bruno Guimarães (Newcastle), Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa), João Gomes (Wolverhampton) and Lucas Paquetá (West Ham); Kinda funny for Brazil entire midfield to be from what most would consider midtable Premier League teams At least four of those midfielders have been linked with teams higher up the table. Maybe five, but I've not seen anything about Pereira. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 He has been one of the mainstays of our team this amazing season. He is going nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 19 hours ago, villan95 said: Not reactionary as I've thought it for a while but if we do need to generate funds then he's the one to go for me. We have Tielemans that can do the things he does and is also more accomplished in some areas. Cannot disagree more, the guy is class. He’s knackered after a long season but was superb at the start and middle of the season and only recently has his formed dipped. Unai’s go to man as well, can’t see him going anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 20 hours ago, ROTTERDAM1982 said: What is his favoured position? Ask Lehmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 21 hours ago, ROTTERDAM1982 said: What is his favoured position? Clearly his best football has been playing alongside Kamara. I genuinely don't think I'd swap those two for any midfield pair. We need to balance the squad out a bit with another player like Kamara so Doug doesn't have to do it while Boubs is injured. Doug just hasn't really had any time off, bar the 2 week suspension and we need to learn from this year and keep him fresh for next season's run in by rotating him with Tielemans and McGinn. Get Kamara fit and another DM then I think we can challenge on all fronts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Terrible again. Barely even noticed him all game but nothing new there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rolta Posted May 13 Popular Post Share Posted May 13 Just now, Bunnski said: Terrible again. Barely even noticed him all game but nothing new there. He was involved loads and had a good game as far as I could tell. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dog Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 1 hour ago, Bunnski said: Terrible again. Barely even noticed him all game but nothing new there. I'd argue he was involved, but he was quite poor. I said only a few days ago, I think he's had his head turned, because he's really dropped off recently, and not just since Kamara got injured. It's frustrating because he's much better than his recent performances suggest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPJCB Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 I thought he was ok last night but was outshone by tielemans in the first half. My main problem with Dougie is that he’s not aggressive enough in showing for the ball in the build up which is why the game sometimes passes him by, particularly when we’re under pressure. Tielemans was exemplary in that respect last night and was regularly looking to take the ball off the CDs and Martinez despite not naturally being a double pivot player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 he is a very good player, no doubt, but tbh i would try and get 80-100m for him in the summer, if someone would pay it. Im not saying i want him to go or think he isnt good enough for us, he is, but a 80-100m income for one player would let Emery bring in 2-3 absolutely top quality players on top of our normal budget. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV82 Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 Needs a rest. Unless there's an obvious, cheapish replacement and there's a club offering crazy money we'd be mad to sell. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lexicon Posted May 14 Popular Post Share Posted May 14 I think some may be forgetting how good he has been this season. He's knackered and not in his natural position - we get some proper cover at DM and Dougie will be back next season ready to smash it once again. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 2 minutes ago, AV82 said: Needs a rest. Unless there's an obvious, cheapish replacement and there's a club offering crazy money we'd be mad to sell. This is where I'm at. Although part of me does wonder if he's been sold a dream by his agent that some super club like Madrid or PSG want him this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 I thought he was much better last night, both him and McGinn were with Youri back in the side. Our issues last night were in defence the midfield and forward line looked more like themselves in all fairness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 11 hours ago, Bunnski said: Terrible again. Barely even noticed him all game but nothing new there. I thought he played some lovely throughballs, the one for the disallowed Ollie goal was inch perfect. Diaby needs to learn to play it like that when he gets in those sort of positions. Him and McGinn also ratted around Liverpool well in the first half, it really helped them knowing Tielemans was around them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post VillaChris Posted May 14 Popular Post Share Posted May 14 As @OutByEaster? has pointed out in the post match ratings thread...look at how he manically celebrated our third goal. He's been here since day 1 of our renaissance in the prem and all the ups and downs in the last five years so will be desperate to play for us in CL given that attachment. Would be silly to sell him when Donk is going, Tim isn't rated at all and we won't have Kamara for pretty much all the CL campaign. You can't play that competition and the preceding fixtures with just three serious CMs in the squad. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wishywashy Posted May 14 Popular Post Share Posted May 14 HAHAHAHA 3 2 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loxstock92 Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 4 minutes ago, wishywashy said: HAHAHAHA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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