Plays in a great team against championship level opposition 75 per cent of the time and has no real competition for places.
Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea
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You say that as if Costa wasn't an absolute beast for us. 2nd only to Drogba in terms for strikers for us in the past couple of decades.
Stick a prime Costa in this Chelsea squad and we're at least 10 points better off.
What a waste of space this guy is.
I think he means getting Costa now/again (for you guys) would be a better option.
Tbh I'm a bit surprised about his loss of form/game at Atletico. What happened?
Absolutely fell off a cliff physically. Hard to believe he is 4 years younger than Thiago Silva.
It's weird that for both Havertz and Werner he said the players said they could not play, rather than the medical team.
Don't see any reason why both would be mad at Tuchel to the point that they would avoid playing for him.
No-one would refuse to play in a cup final unless they were genuinely injured.
A non-entity as per usual vs top teams.
That ball that Reece played to him in the box in the 1st half sums him up. He didn't judge the trajectory of the ball well and it ended up striking him for a hand ball. That epitomizes him as a player.
That ball that Reece played to him in the box in the 1st half sums him up. He didn't judge the trajectory of the ball well and it ended up striking him for a hand ball. That epitomizes him as a player.
He's 29!? And a just turned 29... Amazing. He plays like a over the hill, past his prime, mid 30's striker. Lethargic, always a yard or two off a cross, really poor.
He's just way too big now for a centre forward.
I don't know if he's in the gym too much, in the fridge too much or if that's just the way his body has aged.
But either way he's massive and you simply can't move like a centre forward needs to at that weight.
I don't know if he's in the gym too much, in the fridge too much or if that's just the way his body has aged.
But either way he's massive and you simply can't move like a centre forward needs to at that weight.
Thats why i said Costa. Retired Costa is better than him.
Disgusting performance. Glad he isn't our player anymore
I got there first. I tried to warn you all he was shit even during his first season at United and I got dogs abuse for it, some by people who are very vocally saying the exact same things now.
Yep, yesterday reminded me why I wasn't even remotely sad when he left for Inter.
Looked like exactly why we sold him. Very limited footballer…..
One of those players who we sold, and literally no one gave a feck about selling.
An awful lot of people cared about the sale, haters and supporters.
Did Chelsea struggle against bottom table teams? Because that's the only scenario where Lukaku is useful for a top team, it wouldn't justify the transfer fee but it could explain why the club targeted him.
PS: LVG would make great use of him.
PS: LVG would make great use of him.
Didn't he start out well? Why did his season turn for the worse?
No. He was the same player.
LVG wanted possession football (in the extreme might I add). Lukaku loses possession naturally. No way would LVG make good use of him.
Did they????
Maybe I'm not remembering correctly but I don't recall anyone caring. Most seemed happy he was gone and that was that.Not from his striker, it's actually one of the strangest quirk that he had. He wants possession from every one else, including creative players and pure poaching from the striker.
Looks like Chelsea need to splash the cash again on a striker...
Did they????
Have a look at his thread at Inter, at some point some of us would look at Inter forum fans opinions and report the narratives that we liked.
I mean, to what degree did people care? I honestly don't remember an outcry on here whatsoever. I remember far more kickback when the likes of Welbeck and Smalling were sold, for example.
He simply puts on weight when hes not happy and he has a very narrow window of happiness. He was the same at United. As soon as things aren't great he puts on weight, gets worse and then goes into a spiral of getting more flak because hes rubbish and getting worse because he is getting flak.
Caring works both ways. If you are happy that someone is sold then you cared about it and many people also cared about it in a negative way mainly Mourinho supporters-Ole haters. In fact people cared a lot more than with Smalling, you just need to have a look at their respective threads after they left.
But I honestly don't remember a big deal when we sold him. Yes, caring certainly works both ways; which is why in the past when we've sold 'lesser' players, tonnes of threads would be started in the ensuing years, either for or against the transfer. All I recall when we sold Lukaku was 'meh', and his thread generally got bumped when he scored/had a stinker for Inter. Nothing more than that.
He's so ridiculously easy to mark, it's actually unreal. He really is just a big lump of a poacher. Inzaghi and Chicharito could be easy to mark but their reaction time was so quick that it gave them openings to get goals, Lukaku's reactions are always a step behind the defender.
He's good at scoring when he's in specific positions but he's so clumsy and telegraphic that those opportunities never come around in big games.
He's also extremely lazy, pins himself to the CB's instead of moving around to give his team decent out balls. I remember Ashley Williams berating him at Everton on the pitch for that and years later he's still the same player.
He's good at scoring when he's in specific positions but he's so clumsy and telegraphic that those opportunities never come around in big games.
He's also extremely lazy, pins himself to the CB's instead of moving around to give his team decent out balls. I remember Ashley Williams berating him at Everton on the pitch for that and years later he's still the same player.
We've been really meh vs bottom teams. Leeds is the only bottom 7 team he's scored against. But there was a long stretch post January where Lukaku was just sat on the bench, and he was also injured/out with covid for a stretch before Christmas.
I meant before signing Lukaku because quite obviously this season has been a failure. I'm curious about what logic made Chelsea spend that much on him.
Ah, gotcha. It was meh last season too. The narrative around the team that we were a team that created buttloads of chances in most games but also super profligate and that we just needed a clinical #9 to finish teams off. There was a big thing about Jorginho being the team top scorer with 7 pens.
A lot of us were concerned that just plugging any #9 in there wouldn't solve that problem since the #9 last season (Havertz and Werner) were part of the chance creation process and not just poachers finishing off moves.
Harsh to shame Trustinjanuaj like that. He got nowhere near 15 league goals so would've lost that bet.
The opposite of big game mentality.
In fact, small game mentality accurately sums him up
In fact, small game mentality accurately sums him up
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technically that’s true, sorry Trustinjanuzaj
Even worse than I expected! I’ll take that!