I think that's nonsense. There may be a marginal repositioning going on. Maybe. But to suggest that as a reason for his horrendous dip in goalscoring is being far too kind to him. He's still in goalscoring positions as much as he was last season. I can't see that he's doing anymore to create space for those around him than he was last season, look at his performance against Chelsea at home last year, or example. It's just a catastrophic lackl of confidence.
9
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 45
- Goals
- 15
- Assists
- 3
- Yellow cards
- 5
- Status
Think you'll begin to see Old Trafford turn on him this weekend if he's useless again.
I think we should be looking to bring in another top striker and relegate Lukaku to challenging him. It would be a mistake to bring in someone to push Lukaku from the bench.
last year
Lukaku 1440 minutes played
Rooney 1075 minutes played
And none were against top 6
Never have I seen Lukaku’s role being described as “used to get the best out of others” before. His entire style of play is the complete opposite of what gets the best out of the players around him.
I must admit I didn't see him that much at Everton but he scored a lot of goals for them and I got the impression we were getting a striker who was selfish (in the way that most strikers are) and was always looking to grab a goal. Would be interesting to see the stats of the amount of shots he averaged with Everton and compare that with United.
I don't think I've ever seen a Manchester United player getting that much stick like Lukaku has these past two weeks.
Precisely. If anything, everyone else is being made to play to cater to him rather than the other way around.
When you're the £75m main striker for Manchester United and you're playing as badly as Lukaku has been you're going to get stick.
I think the fact that many Utd fans never thought he would be good enough anyway is definitely adding to the criticism though.
We dont have good passers of the ball like Hazard or Debryne. That makes it worse for Lukaku.
We have Pogba. And it still doesn't make a difference. If you want to point to anything you could say our delivery from wide areas isn't good enough but his movement is rubbish anyway.
His poor technique was always going to bite him on his ass at a top club, he got away with it in midtable clubs because the opposition aren't going to be parking the bus against him, he was afforded space and time, but here he is facing a bus every week, his touch fails him miserably since the margin of error has decreased.
Plus every time he talks I get the feeling that he thinks himself a much better player than he actually is and that is holding him back(what with Mourinho constantly massaging his ego), we all saw the pre-season rondo our players were doing and how appalling everyone was. He needs the same treatment that Martial, Rashford, Mkhitaryan, Mata et al received.
Plus every time he talks I get the feeling that he thinks himself a much better player than he actually is and that is holding him back(what with Mourinho constantly massaging his ego), we all saw the pre-season rondo our players were doing and how appalling everyone was. He needs the same treatment that Martial, Rashford, Mkhitaryan, Mata et al received.
Bang on. I don't understand how anyone other than football manager players can defend this guy. Supported Utd for 41 years and we've had some poor players in that time but nobody has been more incompetent than this guy. Sadly the only way we see the back of him is when Jose disappears to pastures new because no manager worth his salt would start with Lukaku unless of course we've been relegated to the championship, then it might be useful to have him around.
This is just entirely false. We have Paul Pogba always waiting to put a ball over the line or through if he sees a good run. He basically lofted perfect passes to Zlatan every game when the latter was still here. We also have Mata playing a lot recently, also a very good passer if he sees some effort in front of him. We could have Iniesta and Xavi in the middle and they still wouldn’t manage to find that useless bulldozer hiding behind defenders.
What exactly is he contributing to the team?? To the naked eye everything seems to breakdown once it gets anywhere near him
You cannot help but laugh to posts like this. Comparing him to Drogba or Benzema is ridiculous. Their all around play is out of this world comparing to Lukaku's. Actually, Lukaku's all around play doesn't even exist to begin with.
Fecking Benzema and Drogba
Even so, he could only scored against the lesser team with Belgium most of the time, but fail to step up in big game. Scoring against Tunisia & Panama but didn't perform against Japan & France, and didn't score against Brazil. The way how he plays is too similar to Heskey, not sure what makes Mourinho from not rate him at Chelsea and prefer the very old Eto'o to highly rate him now. In term of playing style & weakness, I don't see anything changes since his time at West Brom to now.
He was one of their best players against Brazil, especially in the first half. He played really well in the wing and i would say that his position in that game was the main reason the Brazilian team looked confused in the first half.
We have no width. He needs space. Solid combination.
Ok so basically, he just needs the 2 best players in the league to be effective?
Half the player? He's at least twice the player.
A big fat man.
Be interesting to see if the rumours are true and José drops him today - highlighting further that José is clueless.
In terms of performances lately, the big unit's heatmap has been more like a slugs trail... Of burger juice and sweat.
Vultures are certainly circling.....and sadly he's the type of player that just looks awful when out of sorts. I don't entirely blame him though. His game time has been completely mismanaged and has played too many games since the WC. Also not sure why you buy a player that strengths are about crosses into the box and then play with no wingers or fullbacks that push on (or allowed to). Everything attacking makes absolutely no sense to me and whilst he's having a shocker, he's not alone.
This is fat shaming which can be classified as hate speech
Bellamy is bang on here.
Oh.My.God
He really is terrible and not good enough to lead the line for us. Granted, it's clear he is going through a rough patch and is better than what he has shown this season but i have zero faith in him getting us 25+ PL goals in a season, so therefore we should get rid if we can recoup £50M + for him.
Man Utd 2:1 Everton
Fecking hate him already. Him coming changed the game for them.
Don't want to see him playing again except for the odd last 10 minutes. Don't care about what we spent for him. Money wasted anyway.
Don't want to see him playing again except for the odd last 10 minutes. Don't care about what we spent for him. Money wasted anyway.
His link up and touch was fine. I don't get people blaming him for anything apart from the miss.
It will never not be funny seeing armchair dieticians commenting on players like this.
How is he so shit at finishing?
He makes us worse. The team see a big man and start pumping it up towards him. That's not entirely his fault but his poor movement is.
What a joke. That Pogba cross was about as easy a chance as you can get to get out of rotten form. Did nothing again, except a few 1-2s.
He should spend some more time on the bench.
He should spend some more time on the bench.
He really seemed to drag our performance down.
I understand that maybe Jose is trying to play him to give him confidence but he really destroys our play.
I understand that maybe Jose is trying to play him to give him confidence but he really destroys our play.
Rashford wasn't particulary good but even still, Lukaku should keep starting on the bench until he shows some glimpses of form again.
People are blaming him for the sake of it.
He was as shite as ever when he came on, he’s laughably poor.
Stinking form. His only reprieve is that Rashford/Sanchez aren't good either for us.
Hopefully he stays on the bench next week too. Showed nothing but more of why he got dropped.
- Status