Poor game from him tonight - he knows it too.
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Been saying it since we signed him, he has awful movement especially when defences drop deeper. He needs to work on it.
Waste of money.. i really like him as a player/person but he just might not be good enough to be the main striker for Manchester United.
He is decent when the team is decent and creates chances for him.. (eventhough he isnt even that clinical in his finishing since he still misses good chances way too often) but he is never going to win the game for us with a good individual moment. He could be a part of a winning team but Lukaku as main striker in a team where the other players arent all world class will likely not win any major titles.
Throw money at Inter and Icardi....
He is decent when the team is decent and creates chances for him.. (eventhough he isnt even that clinical in his finishing since he still misses good chances way too often) but he is never going to win the game for us with a good individual moment. He could be a part of a winning team but Lukaku as main striker in a team where the other players arent all world class will likely not win any major titles.
Throw money at Inter and Icardi....
Definitely not. Sheringham and Saha were miles better too.
Invisible.
He had a glorious chance in the last five minutes but waited on the ball instead of attacking it. I would love to see Rashford getting a run of 4-6 weeks but that would only come if Lukaku is out with an injury.
Terrible.
Where is this supposed workrate?
He's a liability defending corners and just stands there.
He can't hold the ball up.
He doesn't have a good touch.
Doesn't have good vision.
He is only decent in the air.
He is a good player and scores at a good rate but good isnt enough for a striker at United that starts every game.
He is holding us back along with Sanchez. Very worrying.
Where is this supposed workrate?
He's a liability defending corners and just stands there.
He can't hold the ball up.
He doesn't have a good touch.
Doesn't have good vision.
He is only decent in the air.
He is a good player and scores at a good rate but good isnt enough for a striker at United that starts every game.
He is holding us back along with Sanchez. Very worrying.
But he run more than Messi. That should count something?
And he has this 'great character'. Just listen to his interview, with all those cool words.
I know he's off form like. He can get goals when he's in form of course, but is he good enough?
A lot of what he does can't be explained away with not getting enough service.
I'd genuinely look at putting him on the right wing where we have nothing and he's looked decent enough when drifting over to.
A lot of what he does can't be explained away with not getting enough service.
I'd genuinely look at putting him on the right wing where we have nothing and he's looked decent enough when drifting over to.
Never really wanted him here. He will never be good enough to be the first choice #9 for a team with league/CL winning ambitions.
Not sure he's even good enough for the fight for 4th place that we will be in. Maybe midtable was his level.
Not sure he's even good enough for the fight for 4th place that we will be in. Maybe midtable was his level.
His touch and general play have always been an issue but he's in a slump right now where everything he does is looking shitty, his second touch is a tackle at the moment and he doesn't even seem to be playing with the energy he did last season.
He has to be the biggest enigma.
How can a player with such a good scoring record be so bad so often.
How can a player with such a good scoring record be so bad so often.
He's a good player, but if we have ambitions for winning the biggest trophies we need better. Then again that applies to nearly every position such is the money we've wasted in recent years.
Abysmal. You could’ve plucked a centre forward from any conference team and through him in there and you wouldn’t have noticed the difference. Constantly waiting for the ball oblivious to the concept of getting to the ball first.
Should re-establish his career at RW?
If he's not benched for this then I don't know when. I think Sanchez is poor from the left and should be tried up top there, Lukaku doesn't even hold up the ball well and mistimes headers , so what's the point, Sanchez fights for the ball but is a bit too erratic, it wouldn't matter that much up top and we could deploy Martial/Rashford on the left and have at least one winger and maybe Lukaku could be used on the right where he would have more balls we could use his pace and we would have width on both sides. Think basically Mou should call Bobby Martinez
This is not a overreaction but:
Mourinho seems to have bought him as a striker who holds up the ball, wins balls in the air and is aggressive. He fits in non of those categories. However, if you give him the ball and runs at players-he is excellent. So he should be playing in the wide position like he did at Belgium. Sanchez and Martial can either play in the no9 position. THE only reason Mourinho plays Lukaku in no.9 position is that of his physique and gives the illusion he can hold up the ball, when in fact Martial and Sanchez are better in those aspects.
He needs to take a seat tbh, he is not world class and never will be.
Mourinho seems to have bought him as a striker who holds up the ball, wins balls in the air and is aggressive. He fits in non of those categories. However, if you give him the ball and runs at players-he is excellent. So he should be playing in the wide position like he did at Belgium. Sanchez and Martial can either play in the no9 position. THE only reason Mourinho plays Lukaku in no.9 position is that of his physique and gives the illusion he can hold up the ball, when in fact Martial and Sanchez are better in those aspects.
He needs to take a seat tbh, he is not world class and never will be.
Lacks killer instinct at times. Chictarito would bag a couple in his position today.
Lukaku is a decent enough footballer but not for us. He’s a lump with some finishing ability. Can’t see us winning a major trophy with this type of player leading the line.
we will never reach that next level to truely compete with the likes of man city, real madrid and barca with lukaku up front, problem is he's always going to be there all the time mourinho is at the club...
Ball just bounces of him pass after pass. Still we try and play him with his back to the goal. Don't know whose fault is it: Our managers who doesn't know that he is not a Diego Costa or his for not being Diego Costa.
I like him a lot but he doesn't have much rvialry on his position. We simply lack another poacher who would come on and do the job in tougher times.
YeahWell, they are both belgian, likeable and you can't trust them.
I love this guy, he just puts so much effort, has the right attitude but today he was simply awful, nowhere near the level required. Slow reactions, he didn’t contributed at all, we need a serious challenger for position we just can’t have him playing full 90 minutes the way he played today.
Should donate his weekly wages.
He was terrible mid-week and was even worse today.
He was terrible mid-week and was even worse today.
He's just a poacher, but unlike many great poacher (RVN), he's finishing isn't great.
He only offers goals and unfortunately for us, he doesn't score that often. In the games he doesn't score in (example vs Wolves), it's like playing with 10 men.
Nice guy and all that but we will never win another title with him as our main striker.
He only offers goals and unfortunately for us, he doesn't score that often. In the games he doesn't score in (example vs Wolves), it's like playing with 10 men.
Nice guy and all that but we will never win another title with him as our main striker.
Worst game I’ve ever seen him play for us. He could do absolutely nothing right. Just shocking in all accounts. I do like him though, he just stank up the place today.
Will never be a top level forward. He simply isn’t comfortable enough on the ball, for a start. Our entire front line let’s the rest down tbh.
Mourinho wants him as Drogba and Costa.
Both of those could make a pointless ball into a goal. Lukaku cannot. He relies on service. Drogba and Costa could create a chance out of nothing like all world class strikers do.
Said it before, we should sign Mandzukic. Do you have his agent numbers?
Will never be good enough to be a top striker. Has way too many faults in his game, including consistency which doesn't help when he has other basic issues.
A poacher who can't finish is no use. Lukaku gives the ball an almighty wallop with his feet, but right at the defenders or the GK. Happens too often.
He has tried to add some aspects to his game, like dropping deep and helping out, his play on the wing, some key passes...but he is limited in that he isn't able to pull it off consistently. Often goes on a purple patch for 6-7 games where he looks promising and then drops off.
He's like Mkhi, good enough for a Top 4 club but not a demanding one like ours, unless we have a perfect structure full of world class players like City's to accommodate his weaknesses.
Very bad today. He can switch his striker's instinct on and off. He seems to think sometimes that he has 10 minutes to watch the ball, control it, look at the goal and then shoot. A world class striker that we need would have taken one of his chances today.
Rather have feigned injuries and stayed out. Horrific throughout. Likeable guy but that was very little football from the man. And he was equally crap against Watford just scored a goal of some obscure body part.
Horrendous. Theres so only so much you can do when your #9 puts in a performance like that.
Should have been taken off
Should have been taken off
£90m. And he's on close to £200k per week. Might be hard to move him on for anywhere close to what we paid if and when the manager comes to the inevitable conclusion that major trophies will never be won with this lump as the main striker.
When Zlatan was up top we were creating loads of chances for fun per game, but our problem was finishing them. Enters Lukaku, and our chance creation has dropped to a complete mess.
You can't simply absolve him of that. He's not that even that much of clinical to justify that.
You can't simply absolve him of that. He's not that even that much of clinical to justify that.
People were against that in the summer but let's be honest hes better than Lukaku. But nobody wanted a Juve reject.
The new Andy Cole..
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