The discussion wasn't who is better at the time because a plain boxscore watching can decide that. The question was did City make a mistake for selling Palmer and buying Doku. No because Doku was always going to be the better player regardless of form or temporary development curve.
And no I'm not telling everyone that Doku was shit - he is my favorite player, duh. I just have a tendency to overanalyze and I believe he can be a BDO contender if he corrects some flaws - mainly his off ball runs and motor.
What? Doku is by far our best winger from a defensive stance. When he first arrived he was woeful defensively but he turned himself around from a defensive liability to a fantastic defensive contributor a long time ago. I'd be surprised if there are many players, not even wingers that have won the ball back more than Doku this seasonFantastic 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 a better option would have been to buy Doku and also keep Palmer.The discussion wasn't who is better at the time because a plain boxscore watching can decide that. The question was did City make a mistake for selling Palmer and buying Doku. No because Doku was always going to be the better player regardless of form or temporary development curve.
We set up all wrong against Villa.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.
Hope you've sobered upIt’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
We set up all wrong against Villa.
Im convinced we you play that team we did against Bournemouth, Dortmund or Liverpool, we win against Villa.
The Villa team had 2 travesties in the lineup.
Reijnders as the #6, Nico G is a massive upgrade on him.
And Gvardiol at LB forced Doku purely wide, whereas Nico O Reilly is an upgrade on Gvardiol in an attacking sense, freeing up Doku simultaneously.
He seems a genuine and decent lad. Very likeable.I honestly love this guy. The fact that he's so humble just makes me love him more!
It's starting to click now, he's pure chaos but he's learning to slow it down but still keep that unpredictability, that's all to do with Pep, I'd even say Kompany who had a few words in the summer with him has helped.