Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea

Lukaku's goal numbers for this campaign (so far).

7 PL goals
1 -Arsenal
3-Villa
1-Brighton
2-Wolves
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2 CL goals
2-Zenit
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3 FA Cup goals
1-Chesterfield
1-Luton
1-Boro

Bargain.
 
FrankDrebin said:
Lukaku's goal numbers for this campaign (so far).

7 PL goals
1 -Arsenal
3-Villa
1-Brighton
2-Wolves
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2 CL goals
2-Zenit
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3 FA Cup goals
1-Chesterfield
1-Luton
1-Boro

Bargain.
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Now the season is done, he'll probably pick up a few more goals and get to 18+ for the season, as he also has a few in the CWC. Then the stats people will go, 'omg, nearly 20 goals this season, when not playing regularly, just imagine if he was trusted'.
 
ROMELU LUKAKU (£100m spent)
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JADON SANCHO (£80m)
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JACK GREALISH (£100m)
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Romelu Lukaku: 2.494 minutes played, 14 goals + 2 assists = goal contribution: 16
Jadon Sancho: 2.402 minutes played, 5 goals + 3 assists = goal contribution: 8
Jack Grealish: 2.541 minutes played, 5 goals + 3 assists = goal contribution: 8


Not a good season for Big Rom but still much better than Sancho and Grealish. The two English players combined have produced the same goal contribution as Romelu Lukaku alone.

Considering the money spent, I'd say:
Premier League flop of the season: Jack Grealish
 
Markolan said:
ROMELU LUKAKU (£100m spent)
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JADON SANCHO (£80m)
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JACK GREALISH (£100m)
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Romelu Lukaku: 2.494 minutes played, 14 goals + 2 assists = goal contribution: 16
Jadon Sancho: 2.402 minutes played, 5 goals + 3 assists = goal contribution: 8
Jack Grealish: 2.541 minutes played, 5 goals + 3 assists = goal contribution: 8


Not a good season for Big Rom but still much better than Sancho and Grealish. The two English players combined have produced the same goal contribution as Romelu Lukaku alone.

Considering the money spent, I'd say:
Premier League flop of the season: Jack Grealish
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Ones a striker, the other two are forwards. I wouldn’t say it’s a like for like comparison.
 
Goals and assists are not the only metric that should be measured when deciding on how good a player has been for the club especially for attacking midfielders that are not strikers.

In 674 appearances for Barcelona, Iniesta only has 57 goals and 138 assists, which is only 0.29 goal contributions per game. Yet he is one of the greatest midfielders/attacking midfielders of all time.

You just have to watch Lukaku for Chelsea and Grealish for City to see that Lukaku has been a worse signing this season.
 
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Pintu said:
Grealish being compared to Iniesta?
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The point is judging Grealish only on goals and assists, when not many City players get stacks of goals and assists, the numbers are usually shared between many players. Yet Lukaku was bought to be the main striker and score goals, so of course he is expected to have more goals than Grealish. Just looking at goals and assists and not actual judging based on watching them both play is not fair.

Lukaku has been a bigger flop.
 
The holy trinity 68 said:
Lukaku has been a bigger flop.
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Lukaku and Grealish have been poor all season, it is like the cattle and the pot, the Mote and the Beam. It is a six of one or half a dozen… There is nothing Saving either of them.

Grealish did cost more money and Lukaku does earn a higher wage. I personally can’t label either of them the bigger flop. We’d be doing the other a big injustice. They’ve both earned it.
 
Markolan said:
ROMELU LUKAKU (£100m spent)
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JADON SANCHO (£80m)
Jadon.jpg

JACK GREALISH (£100m)
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Romelu Lukaku: 2.494 minutes played, 14 goals + 2 assists = goal contribution: 16
Jadon Sancho: 2.402 minutes played, 5 goals + 3 assists = goal contribution: 8
Jack Grealish: 2.541 minutes played, 5 goals + 3 assists = goal contribution: 8


Not a good season for Big Rom but still much better than Sancho and Grealish. The two English players combined have produced the same goal contribution as Romelu Lukaku alone.

Considering the money spent, I'd say:
Premier League flop of the season: Jack Grealish
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This is daft. Lukaku would have been a flop had he doubled his output. He’s been astonishingly bad.

Comparing him to a pair of wide forwards/midfielders, one of whom is playing at a horror show of a club…. Well it’s an opinion. Just not a good one.
 
Markolan said:
ROMELU LUKAKU (£100m spent)
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JADON SANCHO (£80m)
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JACK GREALISH (£100m)
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Romelu Lukaku: 2.494 minutes played, 14 goals + 2 assists = goal contribution: 16
Jadon Sancho: 2.402 minutes played, 5 goals + 3 assists = goal contribution: 8
Jack Grealish: 2.541 minutes played, 5 goals + 3 assists = goal contribution: 8


Not a good season for Big Rom but still much better than Sancho and Grealish. The two English players combined have produced the same goal contribution as Romelu Lukaku alone.

Considering the money spent, I'd say:
Premier League flop of the season: Jack Grealish
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Bizarre comparison.
 
I've criticised and mocked him a lot this season, think it's only fair to also talk about his good moments too. Played pretty well the last 2 games and he's fought his way into the conversation for the final for me. I'm still leaning towards starting Havertz but it's not as clearcut a decision as it was a couple of weeks ago.

Happy for him to be honest.
 
WeePat said:
I've criticised and mocked him a lot this season, think it's only fair to also talk about his good moments too. Played pretty well the last 2 games and he's fought his way into the conversation for the final for me. I'm still leaning towards starting Havertz but it's not as clearcut a decision as it was a couple of weeks ago.

Happy for him to be honest.
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He's a dreadful big game player and especially dreadful vs Liverpool.

Would be a big call to play him over the guy who scored the winner in the CL final for you.
 
He's a good player and will turn this around if given the chance. I think Tuchel is also being a bit stubborn in not adapting to events that happened during the season, and it's clear that the team morale had better days.
 
The Corinthian said:
Ones a striker, the other two are forwards. I wouldn’t say it’s a like for like comparison.
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Plus as much as I think he's overrated, expect Pep to get another gear out of Grealish next season. Lukaku is too limited to go beyond where he is now.
 
Djemba-Djemba said:
He's a dreadful big game player and especially dreadful vs Liverpool.

Would be a big call to play him over the guy who scored the winner in the CL final for you.
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It would be a big call but not as clearcut as it once was. Sometimes you have to go with the hot hand. I don't know.
 
WeePat said:
It would be a big call but not as clearcut as it once was. Sometimes you have to go with the hot hand. I don't know.
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Lukaku is just stat padding against poor/average teams at the end of the season. He has literally never turned up for a big game in his life. Starting him would be suicidal imo. I mean, didn't Pep even take the p*ss out of him by dropping his best CB when you played them last as he knew Lukaku was starting?
 
He has had a poor season. All will be forgiven if he does well in the FA Cup final.
 
Following his three goals in the past few days, Romelu Lukaku has now broken into the top 20 on the Premier League's all-time goalscorers list with 121 goals.

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Impressive numbers for Salah too, if he stays at Liverpool another couple of season he should be able to reach the top10 which is amazing given he's a winger while Alan Shearer seems out of reach for Harry Kane
 
Dave Smith said:
Lukaku is just stat padding against poor/average teams at the end of the season. He has literally never turned up for a big game in his life. Starting him would be suicidal imo. I mean, didn't Pep even take the p*ss out of him by dropping his best CB when you played them last as he knew Lukaku was starting?
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I hear you man. I'm just saying it isn't as clearcut as it once was. Havertz hasn't scored since the tap in against Southampton over a month ago. He missed chance after chance against a United team on the beach and a heavily rotated West Ham team who had their eyes on a European SF. I know it's not all about goals, and Havertz clearly offers a lot off the ball, and it's for this reason I'm leaning towards Havertz, but Lukaku's confidence is up right now, after 3 goals in 2 games.
 
WeePat said:
I mean it's not a hill I'm willing to die on, but the 'he can't guard me' stuff is very common in the NBA. Jalen Green was asked about what he learnt about himself in his rookie season. His answer: "that I'm a bucket". That's the kind of thing I'm referring to.
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He learned he is a massive gaping fanny?
 
Playing Lukaku in the cup final is a risk and there's a chance he'll score, just a matter of whether it's at the correct end....
 
It's just astounding that such a one trick pony can go for such outrageous money.

Watching him against better teams is like watching the kid who does well because he's the biggest in his age group, when coming to play against men.
 
Judas said:
How Chelsea saw what he did when playing for us and still spent all that money on him I'll never know.
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How a coach as good as Tuchel has seen him playing up close for the past year and decided to select him for an FA Cup final against a superior team is probably the more perplexing conundrum.

I know Havertz is out but play literally anyone else. Stick Kanté in and play Mount as a false 9 if you have to. Pick some striker from your academy. Play Werner. Whatever. Playing Liverpool is difficult- why choose to play with 10 men?
 
Judas said:
How Chelsea saw what he did when playing for us and still spent all that money on him I'll never know.
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He didn't have a bad first season with us (27 goals i think) to be fair but then decided to put on more muscle than Mr. Universe and was just god awful after that; he did pretty well at Everton and very well at Inter but he's such an irritating player the way he throws his hands up in the air and makes gestures to his teammates. It's like you're not THAT good mate, and maybe if you moved a bit more you're teammates would pass it to you more often. Seems so unlikable.

...still hope he scores the winner though :D
 
I hope this post serves to be a terrific jinx, but I wish that donkey wasn't on the pitch. Our recruitment is poor, but this was shocking by Chelsea. They seemed to have it in their heads that they were signing Haaland last summer, when everyone else knew he wasn't available. Then they panicked. We all knew that Lukaku wasn't what he believed himself to be.
 
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