11 | Jeremy Doku - 2023/24

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Doku is a phenomenal talent, even Pep is surprised. He was understandably rusty vs Newcastle and didn't have a good game. But that will change soon, he'll hit form at the right time.

Also, Pep's decision to play him a little bit more centrally vs Newcastle was interesting, as he can destroy defences running at defenders from such positions. Think Pep has big plans for him.
 
alexmcity said:
Doku is a phenomenal talent, even Pep is surprised. He was understandably rusty vs Newcastle and didn't have a good game. But that will change soon, he'll hit form at the right time.

Also, Pep's decision to play him a little bit more centrally vs Newcastle was interesting, as he can destroy defences running at defenders from such positions. Think Pep has big plans for him.
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Just needs to stop giving the ball away……..needs to have a word with Jack
 
Robanompivenov said:
Absolutely wild to me that Bobb is being touted as ahead of Doku after a goal as a sub and decent performance vs Huddersfield. He's good and has bags of potential but let's not rewrite history.

Have some of you in this thread forgotten the whole of the pre Xmas part of the season? Doku was THE spark in the team.
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Doku is obviously talented and is able to beat most defenders one on one.

I've criticized Doku heavily in the past... but he's proven me wrong. On occasion he's man-of-the-match.

And yet... he's still not passing the eye-test for me. He's not quite deft enough on the ball; he takes too much time faking this-way-and-that; he's very raw in this regard. Perhaps he'll improve.

Whereas, Bobb, every time I watch him, is fantastic. Bobb seems extremely polished every time he touches the ball.

Bobb, for me, is - right now - far better than Doku - and has far greater upside.
 
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
Doku is obviously talented and is able to beat most defenders one on one.

I've criticized Doku heavily in the past... but he's proven me wrong. On occasion he's man-of-the-match.

And yet... he's still not passing the eye-test for me. He's not quite deft enough on the ball; he takes too much time faking this-way-and-that; he's very raw in this regard. Perhaps he'll improve.

Whereas, Bobb, every time I watch him, is fantastic. Bobb seems extremely polished every time he touches the ball.

Bobb, for me, is - right now - far better than Doku - and has far greater upside.
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Bobb hasn’t played enough yet to put himTo
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
Doku is obviously talented and is able to beat most defenders one on one.

I've criticized Doku heavily in the past... but he's proven me wrong. On occasion he's man-of-the-match.

And yet... he's still not passing the eye-test for me. He's not quite deft enough on the ball; he takes too much time faking this-way-and-that; he's very raw in this regard. Perhaps he'll improve.

Whereas, Bobb, every time I watch him, is fantastic. Bobb seems extremely polished every time he touches the ball.

Bobb, for me, is - right now - far better than Doku - and has far greater upside.
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Too early in Bobb’s City career to say that in my opinion. A huge talent no doubt but then so is Doku. It’s great we’ve got 2 young players very different in style both with great potential. Cole who?
 
alexmcity said:
Doku is a phenomenal talent, even Pep is surprised. He was understandably rusty vs Newcastle and didn't have a good game. But that will change soon, he'll hit form at the right time.

Also, Pep's decision to play him a little bit more centrally vs Newcastle was interesting, as he can destroy defences running at defenders from such positions. Think Pep has big plans for him.
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I think pep played him centrally because we didn't have akanji or stones. As soon as we have a centre back who can join rodri in midfield, he doesn't need the wingers to invert and gvardiol and walker to play as wingers. The availability of Akanji and Stones has the most influence on whether walker and gvardiol are wingers or centre backs and whether the wingers have to invert.

I would imagine that in perfect world Pep would like a box midfield of stones rodri kdb and foden/bern with the wingers as wide as possible just like last season. Just need stones (or akanji) back
 
SouthernPlastic said:
I don’t understand the criticism, he’s gotta start getting back when losing the ball but he played a simple but nice pass to Walker for the assist for our first
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Well for one he has been making a particular fan favourite look bad by positively impacting the game when he comes on and some don't like that
 
Txiki Txiki Bang Bang said:
We don't need Doku to be Grealish and we don't need Grealish to be Doku. They both bring something different
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They can still learn from each other especially Doku being younger who needs some experience from more senior player like Jack.

They can learn from each other so they can reach greater height and not stuck to be the player they have right now.
 
He arrived quite late in the window and probably played more in the opening months than we had anticipated, what with injuries and others leaving. He did well in those months, exceeded expectations even, but he is young, in a different culture, and learning his trade. The time to judge his measure will be next season.
 
Struggled to pick up the pace of the game, pep was livid and rightly so but he picked up eventually. The threat he posed helped change the game in our favour. Kdb looking for him everytime he got the ball just shows you kev knows how much of a threat Doku is. That paring with haaland in the middle brings an extra dimension to the team.

His mere presence just shut off Porro as an attacking outlet completely and with him and Kevin on the pitch we suddenly looked like opening them up.

He's such a strong weapon even if he's doing relatively little.
 
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