It was an additional step up, but this time he was much more mentally ready for the challenge. “I know I am a fantastic player, so I attempt not to consider also a great deal on the pitch,” he explains.
“I normally listen, operate and I consider I owe my season down to this. As a 1st stage I would say my season is a optimistic, but I consider I can nonetheless do a lot superior: to get superior statistics, score much more ambitions, give much more assists.
“I consider I nonetheless have massive space for improvement. I can hold understanding, hold functioning and it will comply with.”
Doucouré’s idol is a Premier League legend whose journey he can relate to a man who became a single of the finest midfielders the nation has ever noticed.
“Yaya Touré played at the very same academy as I did when I was younger, and when I was there I normally admired him,” he says. “I believed our games have been fairly comparable, so he was somebody I genuinely idolised and primarily based my game on.
“When he was playing for Barcelona, I utilized to watch his matches for the reason that I supported Barcelona back then. Then when he moved to Manchester City I utilized to watch him and he scored so a lot of good ambitions, so he’s just a genuinely massive player – an vital player in Africa. He won the Very best African Footballer a lot of, a lot of instances, so that inspired me than and it nonetheless does to this day.
“I have by no means met him but I would like to meet him a single day just to understand from him in individual.”
