11 | Jeremy Doku - 2025/26

alexmcity said:
Predicting the development and future of young players is hard. Nobody on here could see Rodri getting better than Ferna (me aside, ha ha). Doku might become a world beater or not, I doubt your prediction will come true though.
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You insult me. Lol. I was saying it to a barrage of insults before we bought him :)
 
mexico1970 said:
You're asking questions I never asked, but since you asked Doku is very much a left sided forward not a traditional winger.

Firstly you need bags of pace and secondly you know how to beat a man, pace being the most important thing.
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You don't need bags of pace to be a good winger, it helps but there have been plenty of quick headless chickens playing on the wing and they soon get found out. You don't need to beat your man at all to be a good winger, you need to get a bit of space to put the ball in the box, if that's how you play or you need to be able to keep the ball under pressure to manipulate space for others.

Doku is quick enough and skilful enough to beat his man. The main issue with him is that he doesn't seem to know what to do after that. His awareness of what is happening around him, or what his intention with the ball is raises the biggest question mark over him. Sometimes he beats his man, then gets his head up and the defender gets back, then beats him again and puts a ball across. If he can learn to play with his head up a bit more he'll be miles better, or trust his instincts and do what he did against Villa - beat the man and put it across the box. That can come with more time on the pitch and people getting that connection. When De Bruyne got the ball, Haaland knew what he was going to do. I think one of the issues we've had with Haaland recently is that he keeps going for that back post run but we didn't have De Bruyne playing that ball - he needs to learn the near post run or dropping slightly deeper is more effective with Doku too.
 
supercity88 said:
You don't need bags of pace to be a good winger, it helps but there have been plenty of quick headless chickens playing on the wing and they soon get found out. You don't need to beat your man at all to be a good winger, you need to get a bit of space to put the ball in the box, if that's how you play or you need to be able to keep the ball under pressure to manipulate space for others.

Doku is quick enough and skilful enough to beat his man. The main issue with him is that he doesn't seem to know what to do after that. His awareness of what is happening around him, or what his intention with the ball is raises the biggest question mark over him. Sometimes he beats his man, then gets his head up and the defender gets back, then beats him again and puts a ball across. If he can learn to play with his head up a bit more he'll be miles better, or trust his instincts and do what he did against Villa - beat the man and put it across the box. That can come with more time on the pitch and people getting that connection. When De Bruyne got the ball, Haaland knew what he was going to do. I think one of the issues we've had with Haaland recently is that he keeps going for that back post run but we didn't have De Bruyne playing that ball - he needs to learn the near post run or dropping slightly deeper is more effective with Doku too.
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I disagree, when you have beaten your man you need to leave him not wait for him to catch up, Doku is fine on a short overlap but we are never going to be able to use him as an out by knocking the ball behind the full back and have him race onto it.
 
Dax777 said:
Don't think they'll work best together. Or put more accurately, Ait Nouri will have to invert. As they take up a lot of the same spaces.

2 insane dribblers on the left will be something to watch though. I think Air Nouri and Omar might be a fantastic combo fit on the left.
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It would require Doku needing to adapt to play in the left half space to let Ait Nouri wide, like Omar can do.

I think Doku can do it, but it will be an adaptation period.

On the other hand, we saw Nunes in the wide role and tbh, he didn't look that good, and couldn't really take on his man.

I'd like to see Doku back to RW, 1v1 and sending in crosses like Ait Nouri was doing.

Kind of replicating Sane and Sterling.
 
mexico1970 said:
I disagree, when you have beaten your man you need to leave him not wait for him to catch up, Doku is fine on a short overlap but we are never going to be able to use him as an out by knocking the ball behind the full back and have him race onto it.
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Of course you could knock it in behind for Doku. Just like we did in the first game of this comp
 
Doku has great acceleration from a standing start, where Savio lacks that burst of acceleration.
 
Kids a phenomenal talent and with Reijnders breaking itno the box he had more options then the back post to Haaland and it showed

Expecting him to have a good season and show why we spend as much as we did on him, easy to forget hes only 23
 
Great player. No defender relishes the chance to try to stop him. Fantastic to watch.
 
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only thing rodrygo is better than him is finishing. Yes that’s it.
 
He gets a lot of stick from our fans does Doku... but I've been one of his biggest fans. I believe in the kid... the tools are there to work with.

Hes so quick, so dangerous, so exciting to watch.

Once he brings all of these attributes and components together, he could be a hell of a player.

I always feel as though he doesn't make enough runs in behind when he gets the opportunity, a bit like Raheem Sterling used to do for us... he did that today and it paid off with a great goal to finish off.

He has everything else in his locker, it's just that composure and clinical edge in the final third which will really elevate him on to a completely different level.

I really hope he gets to that level because I'd love nothing more than to see this guy hit over double digits for goals and assists every season.
 
Absolutely toasted two of their defenders for the goal, looked like I was trying to defend against him.

I love how clear the 'oh fuck' moment of realisation is for the right-back as he spins in behind.
 
Much better from him. I would still like him to go on his left a bit more. Very happy to see him and Sav score.
 
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