Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea
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PL is a very athletic league. You're not mugging anyone so RIP if that's all there is to your game. Remember how often he got shrugged off the ball when he played for us. Between that and his first touch playing the ball to his feet was a nightmare. It was however nice of him to come back and vindicate what we already knew about him. Top lad.
Nope, I took the data from Transfermarkt:
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-chelsea/rueckennummern/verein/631
And Di Santo wore no 9 for 2 seasons.. It's cursed.
where's dingus?
He's one of those kids we poached from a Brazilian team without ever giving chance. Turns out he wasn't particularly good anyway.
At least Chelsea realized their mistake after half a season and didn't try to force it for 2 as Utd did. Still shouldn't have signed him, his flaws were obvious from his WBA days.
Chelsea won so no one will care, but had another shocking miss when he came on.
Can see Conte getting him on the (relative) cheap if Spurs sell Kane.
how did we try to force it for two seasons
Wait, Lukaku is still with Chelsea?
So glad we got rid of him, he was a success in Italy but still displayed all the obvious flaws to his game on a weekly basis. Since moving to Chelsea it’s been a very bad career choice, not knowing how it would turn out though. I do expect him to leave Chelsea in the summer for a reduced fee, not sure who will take him as the Italian clubs don’t have money.
They are not playing to his strengths, though. The tap-in came to his right foot, not his left. How can he perform in that system?
It’s going to need to be a mental loss to sell him this year. Unless Inter just agree to cancel whatever Chelsea have left to pay, not even sure if that can be done.
They bought him twice!
Lukaku is easily top 5 best striker over the last 10 years, it just poor teammates at United and Chelsea simply aren't good enough to read his brilliant runs and understand his hand pointing.
He doesn't even ask the players around him to use their imagination, he does that for them....yet they can't just place it were he points at. How frustrating!!
fecked up thing is some of the excuses being conducted for him on the Shed End were a mere one step above those
Surprised there isn't any analysis after his masterclass against the gooners.
Bring out the gifs please.
What a donkey.
Bring out the gifs please.
What a donkey.
Seems like he desperately wants back to Inter
https://football-italia.net/watch-lukakus-instagram-post-before-inter-vs-milan/
https://football-italia.net/watch-lukakus-instagram-post-before-inter-vs-milan/
The Bruno of strikers.
Ronaldo is still miles better at 37
The guy had one good season in Italy and thought he was as good as Kane, Benzema and Lewandowski
What's even more surprising that so many clubs paid crazy money for an art most average CF with very limited linkup play capabilities.
Anderlecht to Chelsea €15M
Chelsea to Everton €36M
Everton to Manchester United €85M
Manchester United to Inter Milan €74M
Inter Milan to Chelsea €113M.
The biggest accumulated transfer (?)
He does not have terrible stats in England. He has 118 goals and 35 assists in 273 premier league games. Not the greatest but definitely not terrible.
Says a lot about our society that he is the one to have the highest accumulated net transfer of all time.
Those stats are terrible mate, especially considering nearly half of his 8 seasons starting as striker were for Manchester United or Chelsea.
He's in awful form and surely be shipped out in the summer. Back at Inter or similar team he'll be back to last season's form again.
Just not working in our system and squad.
With hindsight mistake to buy him, last summer very few strikers available.
If we hadn't signed him everybody would be saying it was a mistake too...
Just not working in our system and squad.
With hindsight mistake to buy him, last summer very few strikers available.
If we hadn't signed him everybody would be saying it was a mistake too...
He's a perfect player for the social media age we live in. Talk about how great you are constantly while rarely performing at an elite level, get a bunch of people to buy into your cult status despite stats showing you're not that good. Drop down to a lower level league or turn it on against lower opposition and double down on how 'great' you are.
His confidence is paper thin. No matter where he's been, if he's not showered with praise from everyone his head goes, and even when he's getting praise he focuses on those that are talking shit about him. He doesn't have the mentality to make it at Chelsea or even United's level.
They are similar to Viduka and Yakubu.
Not United fans. We found it hilarious you would drop 100 M's on him after our experience.
You have to relatively good to do that , he genuinely isn't that good and numbers wise hasn't had much aside from 2 good seasons in Italy (his internationally numbers are Supreme though I give him that).
Jokes aside he's definitely a weird case .
I don't know, you just need some good stats on FIFA one year to be considered a great player today. Then people start finding excuses to say everything a player does is world class
We did the world an injustice by buying him, being associated with us has done massively to inflate his coverage and media presence.
Same thing with martial who despite not being world class for a single season has this weird fan base thing going on in Twitter, he at least doesn't run his mouth much.
That's true to be honest. I guess it's easier to look for positives in everything someone does than admit they're just not good enough.
That's a great attribute to always look out for in
folk.
Saves you a lot of unnecessary headaches.
It wasn't hindsight, it was a clear stylistical mismatch from day one. Even if he scored a healthy tally he would have held us back systematically let alone what he's treating us too now.
The club fell into the trap supporters often do of just looking at the top line without factoring in how he'd feck the system up.
At the want of a better option we should have rolled with Werner/Kai/Mount as finishing aside that trio were really onto something and I was really excited to see how they evolved.