Welcome Jeremy Doku | Signing confirmed on a five-year deal

[Deleted member 77198]

I'm guessing you didn't know that much about Manuel Akanji either ?

We’d played against Dortmund the other year and he’d played for them, so I must have seen him on those nights. But I didn’t remember him from those games when we signed him.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Well, that all sums up how ludicrous the market is, 50m for someone with so many potential negatives, when I read he had 2 assists last year from 29 appearances I thought that's not someone to splurge the money on, and also wonder what's going through Cole's mind, or other academy hopefuls for that matter.
Hope I'm proved wrong, but this looks unnecessary to me, we'll see...

What it does is gives us some needed numbers because we are paper thin. But I reckon, two years ago, this would have been a £20+m signing and someone we’d be wondering whether he would be going to Girona or part of the first team.

Imagine if Kovačić (who has a poor injury record in his career) gets injured for a bit and Bernardo and Foden are in midfield and then Palmer gets another injury. We’d have had to have played Walker as an attacking right winger.

 

[richards30]

Very excited by this signing, he brings something different to what we currently have.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Jeremy Helan came on as a sub for 14 minutes in one EFL Cup game against Villa at home in September 2012.

I knew you’d know! :-)

 

[shemnel]

Eddie's long balls.....tighter and stronger back 4..... rapid winger and target man..... we're going classic counter :D

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

We need numbers in the squad

The lad is young

He is fast as fuck which is something we lack

He can dribble is way out of a paper bag

Lets support this kid and give him a chance

 

[Norbiton]

If we were judging players from a pre-season friendly (just one of them at that) then we'd all be clamouring for City to sell Haaland. Let's give him the season.

Didn't Haaland score in his first pre-season friendly?

 

[TINY]

looking forward to seeing this lad

 

[Willtaylor]

I hope he does turn out to be good, but I'd say he needs a bit of work before he can be playing. Someone else mentioned he's a bit Traore and he does seem to be.

He looks very quick. This is him v Wolves.

Another lazy closed minded traore comparison

 

[Centurions]

What it does is gives us some needed numbers because we are paper thin. But I reckon, two years ago, this would have been a £20+m signing and someone we’d be wondering whether he would be going to Girona or part of the first team.

Imagine if Kovačić (who has a poor injury record in his career) gets injured for a bit and Bernardo and Foden are in midfield and then Palmer gets another injury. We’d have had to have played Walker as an attacking right winger.

No he doesn't.