11 | Jeremy Doku - 2023/24

[Kippax Street 1880]

Did you not watch Liverpool at home then?

Yeah, my main memory is him ambling back into his own half as the fella he was supposed to be marking drilled in the equaliser unmarked on the edge of the box.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Only problem is , Pep will avoid working with anyone who is likely to pop up for a visit this Tuesday, a that is PalmerI’m afraid And why he is no longer here.

I think your predictive text might have gone haywire there mate can't make sense of that I'm afraid lol

 

[toffee balls]

I think your predictive text might have gone haywire there mate can't make sense of that I'm afraid lol

Oh yeah , just noticed that.

Cole is a bit if a **** is the point.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Oh yeah , just noticed that.

Cole is a bit if a **** is the point.

Think he just knew he had to be playing football and Chelsea offered him that and mega wages. City obviously didn't value him as highly so he left. Not heard of any falling out regarding him, few of the squad have praised him in interviews

 

[ojeme]

Foden, Haaland, Alvarez, Nunes, Rodders, Ake, Akanji, etc were on the pitch the for first 70 mins. How many of them did better than Doku in that period? I’ll wait for a response because if you claim Doku was gash but you wouldn’t highlight the shortcomings of the rest of the team, it means your judgement lacks objectivity.

Of course I know his work is cut out but I don’t understand what you want a player to do when he is surrounded and still manages to get past only to find many red shirts in the box. If he holds the ball a bit more, he gets dispossessed by the myriad of red shirts. If he lays a pass, there’s far more likelihood that a red shirt will intercept for the same reason.

Anybody criticizing this boy for nothing without a suggestion about what else he could do other than pass the ball around unproductively, as other players apart from KDB (who wasn’t on the pitch anyway) would do, is showing ignorance.

 

[ojeme]

Westham, Brighton and Bournemouth he was unplayable - GOAT worthy. The rest bar a couple were he was poor, he was good or very good. Don’t get it twisted.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Westham, Brighton and Bournemouth he was unplayable - GOAT worthy. The rest bar a couple were he was poor, he was good or very good. Don’t get it twisted.

“GOATworthy”? And you talk of the the jaundiced eye of others being a problem?

Doku has shown flashes. Nothing more. He’s no Leroy Sané, but he does a decent impression of the best and worst of Raheem Sterling.

He’s in his first season and gets a pass, as do all players trying to learn Pep’s systems and bed in with a world class squad.

However, to even whisper the word “GOAT” alongside his name is, to use your own words, “showing ignorance.”

 

[ojeme]

“GOATworthy”? And you talk of the the jaundiced eye of others being a problem?

Doku has shown flashes. Nothing more. He’s no Leroy Sané, but he does a decent impression of the best and worst of Raheem Sterling.

He’s in his first season and gets a pass, as do all players trying to learn Pep’s systems and bed in with a world class squad.

However, to even whisper the word “GOAT” alongside his name is, to use your own words, “showing ignorance.”

For one, that Bournemouth performance was goat-level. You may not admit it but what do I care? You say “he’s no Leroy.” You mean the one that Pep did away with? And guess what? He doesn’t have to be Leroy because he’s Doku and that will do.

If you think Foden (for example) performed better than him in that first half, you are living in denial. I know we all love Foden and do we typically won’t shred him but if you were quiet on the Foden thread but very vocal on the Doku thread, I wouldn’t take your judgements as objective.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

For one, that Bournemouth performance was goat-level. You may not admit it but what do I care? You say “he’s no Leroy.” You mean the one that Pep did away with? And guess what? He doesn’t have to be Leroy because he’s Doku and that will do.

If you think Foden (for example) performed better than him in that first half, you are living in denial. I know we all love Foden and do we typically won’t shred him but if you were quiet on the Foden thread but very vocal on the Doku thread, I wouldn’t take your judgements as objective.

I’m not sure if you’re related to him or just a teenager with zero life experience, and thus context, but the only way the word “GOAT” could be used for Doku’s season so far would be sarcastically or in a derogatory manner.

So far, your treasure trove of data to back up your claim is that you think he played better than Foden in the first half of a game against Bournemouth. Hmmmm…OK, let’s go with that then, shall we?!

What colour are the rainbows in your world?

 

[Phil1]

I suppose some people have a low threshold on what GOAT means…
Doku is doing just fine as it stands, certainly better than I expected at this point but we don’t need to go overboard. That works both ways of course, negative or positive.