He’s totalled just 11 starts for Rennes so far this season, but Watford have still gone and spluffed £8million on Abdoulaye Doucoure – therefore becoming the first Premier League club to actually spend any money (on a transfer fee) so far this deadline day. It’s now 7.00pm.
Doucoure has signed a four-and-a-half year deal at Vicarage Road.
We’re delighted here at #watfordfc to announce the signing of Abdoulaye Doucoure from Ligue 1 club Rennes. Welcome! pic.twitter.com/Y6WYjodbzv
— Watford FC (@WatfordFC) February 1, 2016
We’ve never heard of Doucoure before so we can’t really tell you anything about him other than he’s a 23-year-old midfielder, has one cap for the French U-21s and, if the general consensus is anything to go by, has been vastly overpriced.
Oh, it’s perhaps worth noting that he’s being loaned straight out to Granada too.
Still, good on Watford for actually trying to liven things up a bit.