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fromwww.theguardian.com
12 hours agoJeremy Doku: If I add goals I can be the world's best winger, for sure'
Jeremy Doku aims to elevate his game by increasing his goal tally to become the world's best winger.
Warren Zaire-Emery is one of European football's coolest operators, having made France's Euro 2024 squad at just 18 years old with over 100 appearances for PSG.
I had been at [Manchester] City for three years, so I was aware of all of our best young talent, but I was also aware of all the young players of, say, [born in] 2002 right the way up to 2007/8. So I knew all of the best talent, and I had a pretty strong idea that the players at Cardiff were as good as a lot of the best young talent in Europe.
Aboubacar Maiga is known for his playmaking ability and has been linked with FC Barcelona. He is part of the Africa Foot academy in Mali, which has a collaboration agreement with Barça.
We see him every day, playing at the highest level in the Champions League. He will certainly be one of the best in the world one day; he's on the right track. Everything he does is right. His level is already on par with the best players in Europe.
Vincent Kompany was at Tegernsee [last summer], he drove out there with Christoph Freund, and said: 'Uli, we need Xavi Simons'. I had put an apple pie on the table for the meeting and replied: 'Vincent, you can have another piece of the apple pie, but you're not getting Xavi. We want you to play the young players'.
There are many people who make different comparisons, but as a player, and based on my experience in football, he is one who is as good as the very best. Having good and bad games is normal - I want everyone to go and watch him. The movements, the passes, the dribbling, the agility he has and how he gets out of situations that look impossible... the guy who did that before was Leo Messi.