{"id":624333,"date":"2026-04-23T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624333\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:28:11","slug":"jeremy-doku-if-i-add-goals-i-can-be-the-worlds-best-winger-for-sure-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624333\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku: \u2018If I add goals I can be the world\u2019s best winger, for sure\u2019 | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pace, aggression and quicksilver trickery: J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku is the nightmare for opposition defences who breaks games open for Manchester City<\/a>. In Saturday\u2019s FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, Southampton\u2019s task will be to try to contain the Belgium winger who has raised his game this season.<\/p>\n

The Liverpool head coach, Arne Slot, believes that Doku can be \u201cunstoppable\u201d and Arsenal\u2019s Cristhian Mosquera discovered precisely this in City\u2019s seismic 2-1 win in the Premier League on Sunday<\/a>, the right-back booked for persistently fouling him at the Etihad Stadium. Yet the 23-year-old is not content. The ambition is to add goals to the sparkling skill set he believes will elevate him above Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior as the world\u2019s best wide forward.<\/p>\n

Four strikes in 40 City appearances this term is an under-par return for a footballer of his talent, with Vin\u00edcius\u2019s count 18 in 48 games for Real Madrid. Can he reach the Brazilian\u2019s level? \u201cOf course,\u201d Doku says. \u201cI feel like if I have goals we are talking about a different conversation. Assists \u2013 I\u2019m\u00a0fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to be more in the areas where you can score easy goals, tap-ins. When I look at my goals, even this season, every time they are with dribbles. I want to score even five tap-ins a-season \u2013 that would make a big difference. A winger needs to score. If I have those goals then I believe that I can get there to be the world\u2019s best winger, for sure, 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far Doku has 11 assists in all competitions, compared to nine in each of his first two seasons at City, scoring six times in his debut 2023-24 campaign, and eight last season, including two at the Club World Cup. He began as a No\u00a09.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a striker when I was nine, 10 years old,\u201d he says. \u201cThen I became a winger from about 12. I liked to watch Neymar, [Lionel] Messi, [Franck] Rib\u00e9ry, [Eden]Hazard, [Arjen] Robben, Ronaldinho. Then I created my own thing. I can\u2019t do what they do and they don\u2019t do what I do \u2013 I try to do my own thing with what my qualities are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manchester City\u2019s J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku (right) looks to shield the ball from Real Madrid\u2019s Trent Alexander-Arnold during their Champions League meeting in March. Photograph: Martin Rickett\/PA<\/p>\n

His desire to score more shows Doku\u2019s clarity about his game. Of his pace, he says: \u201cI\u2019ve always been fast. My brother was fast, my dad, so it\u2019s been in the family. I think [Abdukodir] Khusanov and I are the fastest in the squad. Over 15 metres, I back myself. But over maybe 40, he will win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slot\u2019s verdict on Doku came after he tore Liverpool apart in City\u2019s 4-0 FA Cup victory<\/a> this month, his break down the left instrumental in Erling Haaland\u2019s hat-trick goal at the Etihad.<\/p>\n

Another compliment came when Trent Alexander-Arnold appeared to mime Doku\u2019s snake-hipped dribbling style as Real Madrid knocked City out of the Champions League<\/a> in March. \u201cI saw that video. It was a good battle against him,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I play now, most of the time there are two defenders on me, which is not a problem because that means another player is free. But I know one versus one, that\u2019s my biggest quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Saturday he will hope to demonstrate that and propel City to a fourth consecutive FA Cup<\/a> final. Should Pep Guardiola\u2019s Premier League leaders knock out the Championship side, Doku wants a different outcome to the defeats by Crystal Palace and Manchester United in their past two finals.<\/p>\n

Doku causes Cristhian Mosquera problems at the Etihad last Sunday. Photograph: Scott Heppell\/Reuters<\/p>\n

\u201cThey stay on your mind, but I try to not shift my attention to the things I don\u2019t have. I\u2019m grateful for what I\u2019ve won already. So being in the semi-final, I want to go back to the final and win that trophy. Because I won a Carabao Cup, I won the Premier League, so I want to win the FA Cup as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does it make him more motivated to claim the Cup? \u201cA bit yes, no. Even if we won those finals, I would be motivated. Like I\u2019m motivated right now to win the Premier League. Although I already won a Prem, I\u2019m still motivated because you always want to win. It\u2019s never enough, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Carabao Cup triumph \u2013 the 2-0 defeat of Arsenal<\/a> \u2013 came in March. On Wednesday, City ended the Gunners\u2019 200 consecutive days as the Premier League leaders with a 1-0 win at Burnley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve already won a trophy and there\u2019s still two trophies where we have everything in our hands. OK, we are out of the Champions League, but imagine we win those two trophies and have a domestic treble. So we\u2019re happy. Nothing to complain about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pace, aggression and quicksilver trickery: J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku is the nightmare for opposition defences who breaks games open for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-624333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}