{"id":252241,"date":"2025-11-09T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252241\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:38:10","slug":"jeremy-doku-admits-newcastle-had-a-player-who-was-better-at-dribbling-than-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/252241\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Doku admits Newcastle had a player who was better at dribbling than Cristiano Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jeremy Doku believes Newcastle United once boasted a player who could beat even the great Cristiano Ronaldo for dribbling.  <\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle United<\/a> have rarely boasted an entire squad as good as it is now, the club have generally always had some brilliant players on display.  <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the club boast a proud tradition when it comes to exciting wingers.  <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/opinion\/ranking-newcastle-uniteds-top-10-wingers-ever-including-peter-beardsley-and-jacob-murphy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best wingers in Newcastle United history<\/a> have delighted supporters with their skills, goals and assists over the years. <\/p>\n<p>One of the standouts is a certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/tag\/hatem-ben-arfa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hatem Ben Arfa<\/a>. The Frenchman made 86 appearances for Newcastle United between 2010 and 2015 and is remembered extremely fondly by supporters despite his general inconsistency. <\/p>\n<p>Manchester City\u2019s Doku, who is\u00a0generally regarded\u00a0as one of the best dribblers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/tag\/premier-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a>, was a huge fan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-142608942-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"Hatem Ben Arfa celebrates after scoring for Newcastle Untied against Bolton.\" class=\"wp-image-109510\" \/>Photo by Michael Regan\/Getty ImagesJeremy Doku says Hatem Ben Arfa was a better dribbler than Cristiano Ronaldo  <\/p>\n<p>The Belgian international was asked by K+ Sports to rank various Premier League players of past and present based on their dribbling skills.  <\/p>\n<p>Doku ranked himself above the likes of Heung-min Son, Mousa Dembele and former Newcastle star Allan Saint-Maximin. <\/p>\n<p>When Ben Arfa\u2019s name came up, the City star went for the Frenchman. Ben Arfa stayed on past Raheem Sterling, Sadio Mane, Adama Traore and even Ronaldo. <\/p>\n<p>In Doku\u2019s view, however, Thierry Henry was a better dribbler than them all. <\/p>\n<p>Why Hatem Ben Arfa never fully convinced at Newcastle United  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/news\/patrice-evra-says-hes-never-seen-anything-like-player-newcastle-united-signed-for-5m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Arfa was a highly rated player<\/a>, but he was playing for a Newcastle team who generally weren\u2019t pulling up any trees for a reason. <\/p>\n<p>Had he been a more consistent force, he would have made a move to a European super club well before he eventually joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2016.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geordiebootboys.com\/news\/what-hatem-ben-arfa-refused-to-change-at-newcastle-united-even-after-being-shouted-at-by-his-teammates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Arfa annoyed his Newcastle teammates due to his inconsistency<\/a>, as well as his tendency to overplay at times. Despite having a brilliant career, he never really fulfilled his true potential often enough. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Ben Arfa was a shining light in an otherwise fairly bleak era for the club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Doku believes Newcastle United once boasted a player who could beat even the great Cristiano Ronaldo for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3204,218,105051,105052,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-252241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-football","tag-hatem-ben-arfa","tag-jeremy-doku","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}