{"id":20438,"date":"2026-06-11T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/20438\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:27:19","slug":"jeremy-doku-is-pure-football-qualities-that-make-man-city-winger-dangerous-highlighted-by-former-belgium-international-toby-alderweireld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/20438\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jeremy Doku is pure football\u2019 &#8211; Qualities that make Man City winger \u2018dangerous\u2019 highlighted by former Belgium international Toby Alderweireld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quizzed on whether Doku could become the talismanic leader of that group, ex-Belgium international defender Alderweireld &#8211; speaking exclusively to GOAL in association with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boylesports.com\/sports\/football\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BOYLE Sports<\/a> &#8211; said: \u201cYes, of course. Some people talk about Jeremy Doku not matching the assists and goals with the biggest players on this planet. But don&#8217;t forget how dangerous he is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther teams put one, two, or three people close to him, which means space comes somewhere else. Other players profit from that. I think he&#8217;s our main talisman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s so good, he&#8217;s so quick, strong. And when he does a dribble and it doesn&#8217;t work, he will do it again, again, again. So that&#8217;s his quality. He&#8217;s not thinking, \u2018I did one dribble and I didn&#8217;t succeed, I will play it back.\u2019 No, he goes again and again. So that&#8217;s our main player for Belgium, this World Cup. Yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quizzed on whether Doku could become the talismanic leader of that group, ex-Belgium international defender Alderweireld &#8211; speaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,1529,12878,2105,1265,1849],"class_list":["post-20438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-exclusive","tag-j-doku","tag-manchester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116731002665699988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}