11 | Jeremy Doku - 2024/25

[freshie]

Not good enough. To think we bought him and sold Palmer is beyond belief

There's next to no end product with him - such a frustrating player

 

[robbieh]

I actually think Savinho given a bit of time will be the more productive of the two

 

[skillman]

He’s a lazy fucker when it comes to tracking back. The left back has no chance when he’s playing.

Because of that, he needs to be dishing out numbers going forward. And he isn’t.

It’s hard to see him anything other than a fantastic impact player right now. Seems to be best when he can come on against a knackered defence.

 

[Longballutd]

He’s a lazy fucker when it comes to tracking back. The left back has no chance when he’s playing.

Because of that, he needs to be dishing out numbers going forward. And he isn’t.

It’s hard to see him anything other than a fantastic impact player right now. Seems to be best when he can come on against a knackered defence.

That’s exactly how he should be utilised coming off the bench to hit tired legs and make an impact. His overall game is way off the level required to be starting games. He losses the ball regularly both trying to beat players and with sloppy passes and it puts us on the back foot.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

That’s exactly how he should be utilised coming off the bench to hit tired legs and make an impact. His overall game is way off the level required to be starting games. He losses the ball regularly both trying to beat players and with sloppy passes and it puts us on the back foot.

Not sure he is intelligent enough to make proper use of his abilities, decision making being totally absent from his locker.

Never seems to learn from making the same mistakes over and over.

 

[D'Silva]

The amount of people who supported this fraud coming here and Palmer leaving was a dime a dozen. It was blatant ignorance for people to claim Doku would have been as good as Mahrez. Zero football intelligence, pure showboating and no end product. What did people expect? Surely they would have known this would have been the result.

 

[Damanino]

our scouting is very off since the treble. we need to go back to the way of signing players like Dias, Ederson, Bernardo, KDB, Sterling, Gundogan, Mahrez etc.

Doku, Kovacic, Nunes, these need to be very cheap signings as they re only squad filler, bench players generally. Kovacic was cheap and for that role is an ok signing. but Nunes and Doku at 50m+ fee. This category needs to be signed at the cost of Savinho, Echeverri or Akanji, Alvarez etc.

to think Grealish, Doku, Nunes, Phillips set us back more than 260m or so. this a big drop compared to those names listed above.

 

[Belgian Flash]

As a fan of Doku I am super critical of his deficiencies, but some of the criticism here is both superficial and over the top. First of all Doku is possibly the best dribbler on the planet. His on ball technique is worldclass. That is an insane potential if he develops into a more all rounded package. We're talking possibly one of the best players in the world. You don't get that in someone like Savinho so you pay a premium for that.

So the question is how to get him closer to that package. In order to do that you need to understand what his deficiencies actually are, and just parroting "production, end product, productivity" in a vacuum is really shallow and misses the point. The question is how do you get him in a situation where he makes more impact and also develops more. On this forum people constantly do that for Haaland, but not for Doku.

IMO it has to be coaching negligence that he isn't constantly shown videos about where he is on the pitch and where he should be. His lack of movement is the problem. Watch this at 2:32





This is a run he needs to make every match, all the fucking time when he can't get past two defenders with the ball, but for some reason he doesn't and just passes the ball back or stands (doesn't have to be a one two). Get this fixed and half of the problem with his "end product" will disappear.

 

[JewelZee]

Jesus, man. Use paragraphs, please. :)

I'll try to do better :)

 

[Blue Bogey]

As a fan of Doku I am super critical of his deficiencies, but some of the criticism here is both superficial and over the top. First of all Doku is possibly the best dribbler on the planet. His on ball technique is worldclass. That is an insane potential if he develops into a more all rounded package. We're talking possibly one of the best players in the world. You don't get that in someone like Savinho so you pay a premium for that.

So the question is how to get him closer to that package. In order to do that you need to understand what his deficiencies actually are, and just parroting "production, end product, productivity" in a vacuum is really shallow and misses the point. The question is how do you get him in a situation where he makes more impact and also develops more. On this forum people constantly do that for Haaland, but not for Doku.

IMO it has to be coaching negligence that he isn't constantly shown videos about where he is on the pitch and where he should be. His lack of movement is the problem.

You’re claiming Doku is the best dribbler on the planet, claiming his ball technique is world class. Wow that is some statement. Then you claim his deficiencies are due to the coaches at city are being negligent with him.

Let’s for arguments sake say you are correct. Seen as you have listed yourself as a Madrid fan how much do you think he would cost Madrid to buy? How much do you think Madrid would sell Rodrygo to City?