11 | Jeremy Doku - 2025/26

[Blue Hefner]

Fantastic today but he must track back some times, Slobarslai (or whatever his name is) kept dropping wide left unmarked meaning Oreilly had to step up to pick him up, leaving Salah alone. This happened quite a few times.

100%. He does need to be more aware and track back. But - if we got away with it V Liverpool, O’Relley can lock it down and we should have fuck all to worry about Vs the likes of Leeds, West Ham and so on….

 

[Craig]

100%. He does need to be more aware and track back. But - if we got away with it V Liverpool, O’Relley can lock it down and we should have fuck all to worry about Vs the likes of Leeds, West Ham and so on….

Christ

 

[Blue Hefner]

Christ

It’s 1am, I’m semi pissed but I don’t know what you mean?

Doku played well. Him and Nico have the left hand side locked but Jezza does need to do a bit more defensively

That’s not a massive criticism, just an observation which is blindingly obvious and has been since he’s been here.

If that’s an out of order opinion then, sorry

 

[JewelZee]

Oh my...........

 

[ScottSinclair]

Turning into something truly remarkable

 

[Belgian Flash]

Do you think Doku is better than Palmer?

I'm not quite sure that stands up to the eye test no matter what stats you pull out.

Thank god football isn't played and judged on numbers alone - that's best left to those that don't really know what they're seeing.

Not saying Doku can't be good either - but he's no where near the level of Palmer overall.

Time to open the Doku vs Palmer debate again.

 

[citymad]

I thought Matty Cash handled Doku pretty well last week but today will have given his confidence a big boost, and there won’t be many defenders out there that will be able to live with him. He’s so unpredictable and is full of tricks. Providing he stays injury, free he’s going be fun to watch for the rest of the season.

 

[kupest]

As a few people mentioned, it was one of the best performances by a player in recent City times. Up there with the Hart vs Barcelona or Aguero vs Newcastle and some others.

 

[balotellishaircut]

Fantastic today but he must track back some times, Slobarslai (or whatever his name is) kept dropping wide left unmarked meaning Oreilly had to step up to pick him up, leaving Salah alone. This happened quite a few times.

Pep might of said to Doku “don’t track back” just attack there fullback with energy, what I’m saying is we don’t know, but we should think that maybe was a Pep instruction for him not to do this.

 

[doobyedoobye]

Ballon Do'r potential if he keeps this up

 

[Jonas.shaffer]

Providing he stays injury,

Knock on wood, but lost in his strong performances this season has been that he's stayed injury-free, which has been a struggle for him.

 

[Sam69]

 

[HelloCity]

Time to open the Doku vs Palmer debate again.

Wait, I thought Palmer at that time was much better and more consistent than Doku - he was.

You were telling everyone that Doku was shit - so you might have been better digging your own posts up ;)

 

[PragueBlue]

Fantastic today but he must track back some times, Slobarslai (or whatever his name is) kept dropping wide left unmarked meaning Oreilly had to step up to pick him up, leaving Salah alone. This happened quite a few times.

I think he does track back as much as he can. He just lacks the stamina to do it continually. He's been superb of late but is really a 60-70 minute player in end to end games.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

He was an absolute menace to their rightback. Bradley will need counselling after that mauling Jezza inflicted upon him.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

The key has been giving him the freedom to roam off that left wing. Also big credit to O'Reilly who has the pace and fitness to get up and down that left wing and offer the width without compromising on his defensive duties which is allowing Doku to flourish.

 

[Akira]

He absolutely tormented Bradley, and that was a confident Bradley who locked down Vinicius Jr in midweek.

Top notch performance from him, deserves every plaudits that goes his way.

 

[alexmcity]

I think he does track back as much as he can. He just lacks the stamina to do it continually. He's been superb of late but is really a 60-70 minute player in end to end games.

Completing so many take-ons is tiring. If he was recycling the ball instead of sprinting, he would last 90 minutes. His intensity is on a different level to anyone's else.

Still, he played over 80 minutes at Arsenal, 90 vs Napoli 3 days earlier. If the result was just 1:0 City, he would have played more minutes. Pep is managing his playing time brilliantly.

Those saying, he was fantastic BUT...are being negative. There's no BUT regarding one of the greatest big-game performances in the last 10 years or so.

 

[alexmcity]

In terms of *key passes per 90*, Doku is the best at City and the top 8 teams this season.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Seems like another player winning over the blues on here that said he was wank, Seems some will never learn that some players we buy need time, was fucking electric yesterday and will get better and better, but he will frustrate at times it's the way he plays