Lucas Digne - French Deulofeu Lookalike

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

“The fans made me feel at home from the beginning, they showed me big love and created a song for me,” Digne told evertontv.

Hairy, can you write a song for James please, so that he's also happy and signs a long-term deal and sells more shirts for us? Something Colombian-sounding would make sense.

Call it "Me Encanta James." Maybe a duet with Shakira? She's shacked up with Pique. Pique played at Barcelona with Digne, who loves a song. Digne plays for Everton. Everton is the People's Club of Liverpool. You are one of Liverpool's most esteemed post-punk musicians. I mean, that's only five degrees of separation. This isn't as far-fetched as you might think.

Maybe stick a salsa version of Sleeping Gas on the b-side.

Armchair wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:Everton boss Rafael Benitez dropped Lucas Digne, 28, for the win over Arsenal after a row and the France left-back could now be sold in January. (The Athletic - subscription required)

He's kind of gone off the boil anyway. Maybe we can recall Nkounkou, although I just read on Wiki that he was a Carlo signing (Carlo called him personally to get him to sign), so perhaps not.

I'm hoping that this is a fuss over nothing and it will blow over quickly. But Rafa is our manager and he can be an absolute dick when he wants to be, so there's every chance there is something in this. Let's be honest, we don't know for sure.  Stuff like this goes with the territory when Rafa's in town.

So OK, let's assume for the moment that this story is true and that Rafa and Digne have had a falling out...

He's a good player, so this would be a shame because we're light on good players at the moment. But he's not good enough, I'm afraid, to even think about calling any shots. Like, he's not Ronaldo or Zlatan. The team isn't built around him. He's a left-back. Our left-back isn't going to get the manager sacked in a power struggle. And a decent full-back isn't going to drag us out of the shit and win too many games single-handedly when we're in trouble.

If the story is true then I would very much like Digne to shut the fuck up, do his job and earn his money by playing football to the best of his ability and not arguing with a manager who is notorious for not taking any shit and getting his own way. I mean, if I know that then he should know that, which would make me think he wants out anyway and this is his way of engineering it. And I'm not necessarily saying it's right or good that Rafa is so obstinate; just that, well, that's the way he is, like it or not. And he's the manager right now.

So if Digne can't knuckle down and do what he's paid to do then quite honestly we don't want him and he's welcome to do one in January. His worth as a player doesn't justify him causing any kind of dressing room strife. If he wasn't getting a game for some unknown reason then it might be a little bit different. But an argument over style of play, serious enough to get dropped? Fuck off. We don't need that shit right now.

Having said all that...

We don't actually know for sure why Digne didn't play at the weekend. This is the problem, we'll believe any old shit we read - I'm as bad for that as anyone. He's never previously struck me as being a bit of a twat, and this could all be media bollocks. It could just be Rafa on a power trip picking on Digne for no reason at all except to say "I'm the boss, I'll drop anyone if I want to." Does anyone remember Stevie G's face when he subbed off Torres once for no logical reason whatsoever? So if Digne plays at the weekend, and especially if he bangs in a late free-kick to win the three points, just ignore this post and I'm sorry to have taken up your time.