I’d be fascinated to hear Guardiola speak openly about this. They took a huge gamble with that strategy and it has to be the biggest recruitment failure he’s been involved in?

It is odd. I feel the same. Was so gutted when I saw the massive deflection on his cross in that Spurs game. Want it to happen for him so badly. I’ll watch today’s game back and look out for what you spotted

Could explain why so often no one looks ready for his final ball

Did you see Walcott commenting on him a while back? Said his problem with Doku would be that it’s not just his opponent who has no idea when/how he’ll decide to beat his man after stopping and starting. I thought Erling also hinted at never knowing when he’ll release in his interview after Spurs

Oh no. Surely he’s got to? Stones the slowest of the bunch, but the other two being able to get there isn’t super useful if every one of their duals is a complete coin flip

Was he bought to play the 6? I agree if so. I think he’s a perfectly serviceable squad 8, though. I enjoyed his dribbling high up the pitch, back when we didn’t concede every time we gave the ball away

ahaha what nonsense