Dr. Howard Tucker has been awarded the record title for the oldest doctor ever after working until the age of 103.
He was continuing to work as a neurologist until just two months before his passing on 22 December 2025.
Doku is very important to this new system of play of Pep Guardiola, in fact, he’s arguably the most important of the front four. He might not always get the goals or assists, but everything in that attacking structure flows through him.
What Jeremy Doku gives you is destabilization. In a team like Manchester City, where control and structure are everything, you still need one player who can break the script. Doku is that chaos factor. He stretches defenses horizontally, isolates fullbacks, and forces constant double teams. The moment two players commit to him, space opens up elsewhere that’s where the likes of Cherki, O’Reilly, or even the Haaland start to thrive.
It’s not about his numbers, it’s about the reactions he forces. Defenders drop deeper, midfielders shift wider, and the entire defensive block gets distorted. That distortion is exactly what Guardiola’s system feeds on. Without someone like Doku pinning defenders and constantly threatening 1v1, City can become predictable too safe, too central.
He’s essentially the trigger. When he receives the ball and drives at his man, it signals the rest of the front four to position themselves for second actions cutbacks, rebounds, switches. That’s why even if he finishes a game with no goal contributions, he could still be the reason the system works.
In this setup, Doku isn’t just a winger, he’s the mechanism that makes everything else possible.
Problem is Doku. You have to double mark Doku, it means O’reilly will almost always be free. Doku might not score or assist, but that’s what he offers you, it’s left to you to use it.
Bernardo Silva: "Can I say something? @ErlingHaaland was fantastic today, fighting for every ball. It's not easy with two centre-backs that strong, and he was unbelievable. Thank you so much, Big Erl. Apart from the goal, that he always scores, today he fought like an animal..." [via @SkySportsPL]