Jeremy Doku is already doing what Pep Guardiola wants from a Man City winger with more to offer

As Jeremy Doku made his way to the bench after his Manchester City debut, there was a nod of appreciation from stand-in boss Juanma Lillo and a hand out to embrace. It might not have been the effusive pat on the head or hug that Pep Guardiola can often hand out, but by the standards of the more restrained Lillo, it was a sign of a job well done.

City's unusually hectic summer had ended with four new faces and all were in the squad against Fulham. Josko Gvardiol was a surprise substitute, but Matheus Nunes was not, having only moved from Wolves on Friday.

Mateo Kovacic has made the Etihad home very quickly, adapting in the manner you would expect of a 29-year-old with Real Madrid and Chelsea on his CV, as well as a World Cup final appearance. That left all eyes on £55million man Doku, perhaps the most un-Guardiola-like signing of the summer.

The 21-year-old is a dangerous dribbler and an attacker with a hint of the X factor about him. That doesn't always go down well at the Etihad, at least with Guardiola, especially if it's done in what he considers the wrong moment.

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But in a performance that took City to four successive wins at the start of the Premier League season, something last achieved in Guardiola's first season, he was solid if unspectacular. For a winger at City, that qualifies as a more than competent start.

City had actually made a sluggish and sloppy beginning to the game. In this fixture a year ago the jeopardy drew the Etihad crowd in after Joao Cancelo's red card and Andreas Pereira's equaliser from the penalty spot with more than an hour to go.

Guardiola demanded more from his players and the crowd and they delivered and the