Should Everton extend Doucoure's contract?

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BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty has been answering your questions in a special Q&A session on Tuesday.

G asked: Would you extend Abdoulaye Doucoure's contract? I'm firmly in the camp of "thanks for everything, but it is time to move on".

Phil answered: It sounds a bit like fence-sitting but I think you would need to know what alternatives are out there before deciding on that - and you would need to know what Doucoure would want, of course.

I would certainly think long and hard about it because he is 32 years old.

I would be tempted to give Idrissa Gueye a deal before Doucoure, even though he is 36 in September.

David Moyes might have some ideas of his own because, despite the upturn since he arrived, Everton's team still needs some serious strengthening.