Dinghy
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Heh, what's this? Weren't most on here agreeing that he was one of the best strikers at the WC?
He had 2 good games against trash opponents and 1 decent game against Brazil. The rest was bad. Average world cup at best.Heh, what's this? Weren't most on here agreeing that he was one of the best strikers at the WC?
Bulking up with muscle doesn't excuse the clumsy ball control, though.
Heh, what's this? Weren't most on here agreeing that he was one of the best strikers at the WC?
It can greatly affect your agility and therefore your touch but he was not exactly good in that department before bulking up.
Bunch of unfit kids on the internet.Why are people saying he got fat. He bulked, added some muscle if I get it correctly.
It's as if they couldn't wait to call him fat, lazy and dumb.Bunch of unfit kids on the internet.
It can greatly affect your agility and therefore your touch but he was not exactly good in that department before bulking up.
It affects to an extent, have to agree. But as you said, he wasn't that great on that chapter either.
You just need to see videos of recent exibition games where you see extremely fat Ronaldo "Fenômeno" controlling the ball, and you realize that somethings cannot be taught, because I believe Lukaku probably spends at least some time trying to improve it.
He will have bulked up to maintain his physical advantage over everyone else after a long and tiring season.Usually players who come to the EPL are told to bulk up so that they can handle the physicality. I have never heard of anyone bulking up for the World Cup or similar cup competitions. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Also, top players are always in peak fitness. They don't alter their body weight for different events. Ronaldo, Messi, etc have never even spoken about such things. People bulk up or lose weight trying to reach their peak fitness level.
Maybe Lukaku doesn't want to admit that he has hasn't looked after himself after the season ended and is now trying to make it sound like he did it on purpose. He reminds me of Diego Costa when he didn't play for half the season and left to Athletico.
Did you even read the article before you started whining?
Me and the [United] medical staff, we did like a lot of tests to see what was the problem. I had a hamstring injury, which is something that never happens to me.”
Lukaku tried to do the Shaquille O'Neal. Put on more weight/muscle to make it impossible for CBs to stop him. Suprisingly such a strategy does not translate well from the NBA to football.
As you correctly state; Lukaku already had enough muscle to beat defenders(too much in my eyes). His two biggest problems appart from his touch are timing and positioning. His lack of competence in these areas are clearly visible on the pitch. The amount of duels he loses to smaller/weaker CBs is too high, and this is due to his positioning before the duel and that he times his jump wrong. If he can fix these shortcomings then he could potentialy be a starting striker for a title winning team. Suarez and Lewandoski are two players Lukaku should study.
Most people are doing no such thing. They are wondering how it is that quite a few United players seem to have had issues with weight gain over the past decade or so; Lukaku being the latest. This seems to happen less, or not at all, at other clubs.People just love it when they get a chance to call a professional footballer fat and lazy Nothing tastes quite as good as that little pleasure
Of all the expert comments in this this thread, this is the only one that seems intelligent enough to trouble the coaching units of Belgium and Man Utd with. Though I’m quite sure it’s something they’re aware of and working with.
I remember when, under Fergie, Darren Fletcher came back after injury and was too weak even for a technical player (as he was deemed then). He came back after the summer having put on the few punds of muscle he was ordered to, and couldn’t do a thing right for a year. Misplaced passes, lost possession, it’s incredible sometimes how a lost tenth of a second of explosiveness can effect a football player depended on reflex movements most of the time. Still, it’s also worth noting that even if this is a power factor, it is quite usual for top notch coaching teams to make wrong guesses regarding how to deal with this in their oh so human players.
Here endeth this expert comment.
Bulking up with muscle doesn't excuse the clumsy ball control, though.
People just love it when they get a chance to call a professional footballer fat and lazy Nothing tastes quite as good as that little pleasure
Probably makes it worse given he's become less athletic. Wasn't amazing to start with though.
Usually players who come to the EPL are told to bulk up so that they can handle the physicality. I have never heard of anyone bulking up for the World Cup or similar cup competitions. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Also, top players are always in peak fitness. They don't alter their body weight for different events. Ronaldo, Messi, etc have never even spoken about such things. People bulk up or lose weight trying to reach their peak fitness level.
Maybe Lukaku doesn't want to admit that he has hasn't looked after himself after the season ended and is now trying to make it sound like he did it on purpose. He reminds me of Diego Costa when he didn't play for half the season and left to Athletico.
Of all the expert comments in this this thread, this is the only one that seems intelligent enough to trouble the coaching units of Belgium and Man Utd with. Though I’m quite sure it’s something they’re aware of and working with.
I remember when, under Fergie, Darren Fletcher came back after injury and was too weak even for a technical player (as he was deemed then). He came back after the summer having put on the few punds of muscle he was ordered to, and couldn’t do a thing right for a year. Misplaced passes, lost possession, it’s incredible sometimes how a lost tenth of a second of explosiveness can effect a football player depended on reflex movements most of the time. Still, it’s also worth noting that even if this is a power factor, it is quite usual for top notch coaching teams to make wrong guesses regarding how to deal with this in their oh so human players.
Here endeth this expert comment.
How many of you read the article? It answers most of the questions here.
Don't need to be subtle, just call us stupid.
Don't know why this sounds BS -- International football needs more muscle to play better, but not EPL.Romelu said:“In the Premier League, I cannot play with the same amount of muscle as international football,”
I think he's so full of himself thinking his WC performance is "great".Lukaku said:Asked if he bulked up in the summer, Lukaku said: “A little bit of muscle, yeah. It was at the World Cup. I just felt great and I think I played great over there, and then when I came back it is a different type of style.”
Well thank you for the candid praise.
His physical transformation(detoriation) makes sense when taking the football played by us into consideration.
Regarding the Darren Fletcher comparison; Putting on weight(either muscle or fat) will make ones control over the body decrease unless one is able to do distribute the weight/muscle/strength unisonally thoughout the body. Something that is not easy to achieve, and thus it will take time for Lukaku to get used to his "improved" physique. This increased weight will not improve his touch on the ball, make him less able to shift directions fast when running(something that was a weapon for him due to his size) and make him a less useful footballer(in my eyes). But given that we play static, slow and simple football this would in theory make him more useful for us.