I would still take Lukaku over the other 2 but the issue like you said, is that Chelsea has other more important players in their system to play well and win whereas our football depending on Lukaku can be tough to watch. Hopefully Mourinho realizes that (the Newcastle match being a great example) that the way forward is by giving Lukaku less importance
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Giroud would actually be a lot more suited to how Mourinho wants us to play than Lukaku is. I saw someone a few weeks ago call Giroud a budget version of Drogba, and it is quite true. Drogba wasn't actually a great scorer, but he was very good at winning the ball, holding it up and bringing the players around him into the game. Giroud is a very similar style of player, although obviously not as good. Lukaku, despite his size, is a very different type of player.
So has Darren Bent, Robbie Keane, Peter Crouch, Jermaine Defoe, Dion Dublin and of Course, Emile Heskey. I would say he is more their level but obviously much higher than Emile
Guy is living in his own bubble when it comes to criticism I see.
Been deleted. What did it say?
If this is true..
Well it comes with the job of playing the leading striker for a big club. He needs to learn how to handle it.
He really doesn’t appreciate how fortunate he is to be at United, when he has no business actually being here. When he’s at West Ham in two years time I hope he still doesn’t give a ****
Doesn't dominate games, doesn't score out of nowhere with something special.
But still scores lots of goals.
Strange player.
But still scores lots of goals.
Strange player.
Feel for him. He's being scapegoated even though no one in our team has played well.
Deliver and people won't say things. That either looks like he does give a feck and can't handle it, or he doesn't actually give a feck when he probably should.
That quote makes no sense because what he does in that shirt matters to us.
Is he disagreeing with the critisicm or with opinions in general?
You’ve been shit Rom, also, you’re a public figure.
So people who don’t know you still get to criticize as well as praise you.
He should get on with his job and delete his Instagram account in the process.
Scapegoated? So you think hes the player whos been getting the most criticism out of all the players?
Its only a few weeks ago some fans were calling for him to be captain after giving an interview!
He's actually been the worst anyway. By a decent amount.
He's the main reason we're in this mess. Multiple game-changing sitters missed has us miles off the pace.
If his way of dealing with that is to be a snarky twat on social media then it only makes me want him gone even sooner than I already did.
Feck off back to Everton where you're worshipped for having the first touch of a of a landmine.
If his way of dealing with that is to be a snarky twat on social media then it only makes me want him gone even sooner than I already did.
Feck off back to Everton where you're worshipped for having the first touch of a of a landmine.
He is right. He shouldn't give a feck about what people say. Like I don't give a feck if he says the right things, or 'gets' it.
Works hard for the team. Has let us down with missing a couple of sitters, but the team is creating so little that all of his misses become highlighted. He's a fantastic crosser from the right, would like us to roll with Alexis on the right, but having them interchanging would bring the most out of both.
Almost reached thirty last year in an offence that didn't really click, I can't believe so many fans dislike him.
Almost reached thirty last year in an offence that didn't really click, I can't believe so many fans dislike him.
I said at the time how weird it is that our fans get so excited about a nice interview and call for a guy to be captain, while disregarding their actual ability. It happened with Ander too.
If any player is scapegoated it's Pogba, who despite criticism has probably been our best performer this season. Lukaku has been absolute trash this season and there's nothing wrong with admitting that.
best way to shut the haters up is to actually perform. In fact, I feel like he’s been given over-the-top praise in the past in relation to his actual ability. There’s no doubt he works hard but he’s a very limited player.
Scapegoat ? he's playing more like an escaped Goat.
He does not work hard for the team. He’s the laziest player in our entire attack. The only thing he works hard for is his interviews.
I think he’s lazy and that he contributes very little when chasing the ball - aka fake pressing to look active. Inside the box he is never working hard, merely standing still with his arms up in the air. Creating few chances? Well, if he got into position more often - perhaps it’s easier to create that chance? It goes both ways. Fantastic crosser because he has like three of them on YouTube? Hardly enough to make conclusions mate. He reached 30, but he also managed just 16 in the league - 9 from October to May. It’s easy to doctor numbers. Besides, 30 is the new 15, it’s not good enough.
Add to that he's inconsistent over 90 minutes and probably hampers our attack overall. Yet, like you said, he puts up good numbers for club and country.
I've defended him on this basis even though I never wanted him in the first place. I said that until somebody else starts scoring regularly or puts in a great performance when they do get a chance up front, he won't be benched.
The issue now is that he's stopped scoring but is still displaying all the negatives. Now I'd agree we should try something else until he gets back to his best. There was always going to come a time though where he would be the weakness in our attack, just with the rest of them also playing bad it was hard to single out the guy that scored the most goals.
He stays up top, probably because he's told to. If the attacking patterns are better coached, the movement for all the front three would look a lot better. I see that when he plays for Belgium.
I will at least support him until I see him under another coach.
If you haven't seen he's a good crosser you haven't watched him at United at all. Almost any cross he makes looks better than anyone else on this team can serve up.
This team is not properly functioning as an attacking unit. Settle on a front three, build up a chemistry, he could be very good for us interchanging with Alexis on the right. I feel no attacker at this club will look good until Mourinho goes.
He's not perfect, but this team looks so poorly set up in attack that I won't give up on him.
A poor man's Mário Jardel 
This is serious.
I wish we could exchange him for icardi.
We only bought lukaku because he was the only striker available.
This is serious.
Who in our attack works less than Lukaku? Even Martial, widely called lazy on here, has been putting himself about more than Lukaku. Lukaku is extremely static.
I like the way he points to his feet and asks his team mates to play to his feet and if they do he loses it instantly as his control is so poor.
I have never seen a striker who is so good at hiding in between two central defenders.
I have never seen a striker who is so good at hiding in between two central defenders.
Maybe if he did give a feck he might actually improve as a footballer.
See, I don't understand the logic. Maybe I'm just dumb. I don't get comparing Rashford and Martial to Lukaku. If they on a level playing field (in terms of opportunities), then the comparison is fair. Lukaku never misses a game unless injured.
You get the 2 kids warming the bench for most games and maybe getting 10-15 minutes at the end of a match to come in and save the day when the big money player could not make an impact in the previous 75 minutes.
Is it then fair to say that they not good enough to start ahead of Lukaku? A few minutes on the field when they can barely get up to speed of the game let alone score a winner or equaliser.
Also, even if they start and finish a game, it's still not fair to compare them to Lukaku, because they where probably benched the previous two matches and going forward will probably be benched for the next 2 games.
We all know how well Martial performed in his first season when he played almost all the time. Proof that when played consistently, these guys will deliver.
How I wish that one of these 2 could be our new Ole, but they just don't make them like that anymore.
He's not being scapegoated, he's received criticism from fans but very little from the wider media. The fact he's been noticeably bad even when we're playing so poorly is why he's being criticised. He needs to get out of this rut and quickly.
We could do with a Hugain to our Benzema (or the way around really). Real Madrid stocked their squad with two good strikers with each making up for the others deficiencies in a way although you could argue Benzema doesn't have many. So although Lukaku is a good striker and Jose seems to love him, I wish we could alternative him with a more technical CF. Ideally Martial would be that man, or Rashford, but I think Mourinho likes more established players into hag position.
Only problem is can we really spend so much on a striker when we need strengthening in other areas.
Only problem is can we really spend so much on a striker when we need strengthening in other areas.
That seems to be our main issue here. I'm not even close to giving up on Lukaku yet, but due to the money we've dropped on him we'd really struggle to recuperate the fee so he's here to stay. With more pressing concerns in the squad we sadly can't afford to be dropping another £20/£30m on competition for Lukaku, I wish we'd actually landed someone like Mandzukic in the summer, would've made a lot of sense but hindsight is 20/20.
It's a slightly strange situation because while we wanted our team to challenge we actually look a long way off. So would a signing like Mandzukic even make sense if we're going to challenge 2-3 years from now? I like the profile of players Liverpool have gone for. All the signings that Klopp has made are in the 20-27 age bracket, all have improved at the club and everyone's value has increased since they arrived. That's the sort of activity we need IMO. But you're right in that it's an odd situation where were obviously not going to spend big on that position.
Lukaku is not our only striker & we don't need a god damn back up for him when we have Sanchez, Martial & Rashford that are strikers too.
We just need to move away from a system that tries to get the best out of one player to team focused game that gets the best out of multiple attackers at a time.
We just need to move away from a system that tries to get the best out of one player to team focused game that gets the best out of multiple attackers at a time.
I wonder if Lukaku could play the role that Cavani did for PSG? Right sided hard working CF. I suppose the problem is that he isn't technically as sound as Cavani, but could be worth a go. At least it won't make our wide players obsessed with just crossing. Look at Martial, he played well in the last game but we're sucking away all his forward instincts. His first thought is always to cross to Lukaku. Would prefer a more technical striker and Lukaku coming off the right hand side. Again, no idea if this works. Can Lukaku defend as required? He is a poacher after all.
Yeah I agree. All our players are focused on serving the CF right now. Their own individuality seems to be compromised.
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