Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea

Dancfc said:
The ironic thing is the way Rom has been used the last three games is actually the perfect way to utilise him on paper (on for the stat padding against Villa and Brighton but kept well away from Liverpool).

He could be an asset to any squad if he knew and accepted his strengths and limitations but unfortuently he (appears to) genuinely think he's in the very top tier of player.
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There's no 'appears' to. At the euros he was openly asking why he wasn't considered on the same level as Lewa, Kane, Benzema, Suarez :wenger:

The funny thing about him being dropped too was that he was stinking the joint out even before his injury. 8 games without a goal. Complete delusion and hubris to then expect to stroll straight into the team after being injured, having covid and being out of form when the team was doing perfectly fine.
 
Eugenius said:
There's no 'appears' to. At the euros he was openly asking why he wasn't considered on the same level as Lewa, Kane, Benzema, Suarez :wenger:

The funny thing about him being dropped too was that he was stinking the joint out even before his injury. 8 games without a goal. Complete delusion and hubris to then expect to stroll straight into the team after being injured, having covid and being out of form when the team was doing perfectly fine.
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Jesus i didn't even know that :lol:

When I found out that interview was in or around the United game it didn't surprise me one bit infact my first reaction was it all adds up, this is a guy who thought being understudy/competition to prime Diego Costa at the age of 20 was beneath him, he was never going to accept anything other than untouchable.
 
Sounds like he consulted some of the senior players with the idea of dropping Lukaku and they all backed him.



 
This guy doesn't sound like the brightest bulb in the box. Sometimes you just need to shut up. Surely he should have known his statements will create a big controversy.

He is not good enough to warrant all this baggage.
 
WeePat said:
Sounds like he consulted some of the senior players with the idea of dropping Lukaku and they all backed him.



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He handled this so well. Shame he is Chelsea manager, hopefully Roman pulls the trigger.
 
I find the whole thing hilarious, and i'm glad he's proved the club right yet again for getting rid first chance we got. He's the laughing stock of football right now.
 
roonster09 said:
He handled this so well. Shame he is Chelsea manager, hopefully Roman pulls the trigger.
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Yeah I agree. He's been calm and exercised a good measure of leadership and man management
 
Tarrou said:
he did an interview in Portuguese though

but yeah he’s probably not super fluent but clearly has an aptitude for learning languages

I have Portuguese mates I haven’t learned shit
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French, spanish, italian, Portuguese are all latins languages. You will obviously learn or understand one easier if you speak the other.
 
  • Tuchel has confirmed that he has a meeting with Lukaku on Monday. He tried to downplay the situation during the Friday press conference, but he wasn’t happy. After the 2-2 draw with Liverpool, Tuchel insisted that “he was not personally angry with Lukaku,” that “we can handle it” and that he doesn’t feel “personally attacked.”
  • Players have been discussing the interview, with an anonymous source claiming that none of them saw it coming or saw any indication that Lukaku was unhappy. Another source questioned the timing of the move near the start of the January transfer window, speculating that Lukaku may be looking for a move.
  • There is “little support” for his actions in the dressing room. Tuchel appears to have the backing of the squad for how he dealt with Lukaku. Senior players Jorginho, Azpi, Kante, and Rudiger where consulted before his decision to omit Lukaku from the squad for the Liverpool game.
  • Tuchel did not know where Lukaku was during the game. He was not present in the dugout. Lukaku is still expected to be at the training ground on Monday. It is still to be determined w/n Lukaku gets recalled against Spurs for the midweek fixture. Regarding the Monday interview, Tuchel says that he wants to evaluate the siruation, understand what he said and why we said it. From there the decision on the Spurs game will be made.
  • Unnamed sources claim that Lukaku was advised against moving back to Chelsea, that he has struggled to settle off the pitch in addition to his performances on the pitch.
  • Full quote from Sky Italia interview: “I’m not happy with the situation and that’s only natural,” Lukaku said. “The head coach has decided to play a different system and I mustn’t let up. I need to keep working hard and be professional. I’m not happy with the situation but I am a grafter and I mustn’t let up. I think the coach can get me playing more but I have to respect the choices he makes. All I have to do is keep working and wait for my moment.” The focus of Lukaku’s interview with Sky Italia wasn’t supposed to be Chelsea. The purpose behind it was to apologise to Inter Milan fans for the way he left in the summer.
  • For the first time, Lukaku revealed he had asked Inter for an extension. “Because I’m 28, my family was happy in Milan and I had (I still have) a flat in Milan. I said to myself: next year my son will come and live here. And my mother too. We’ll live all together in Milan. We’ll be happy.” Inter did not make the offer due to their financial problems, and a transition to a sustainable model.
  • Lukaku was not happy when Inter declined to make an offer. His agent Federico Patorello said: That Inter didn’t make him an offer hurt Lukaku, who still follows the team and tunes in for every game. “Always. Always. Always. Always. Always. I watch all of them. When Inter touches your heart, it’s different. It’s different.”
  • Conte leaving was not a factor in his own decision to move. “No,” Lukaku said. “The only reason was the extension. I knew that if Simone Inzaghi were to become our coach we would have still had a chance to win. So it wasn’t because Conte left. I think if they had offered me a contract extension, you and me would not be talking in London right now, but in Milan.”
  • Antonio Conte back in September said that Chelsea were not getting the most out of Lukaku. “He’s a threat in the penalty area and you have to try and keep him away from it. But he’s also able to come into midfield and unleash his speed: he can be a focal point in the box but also break from midfield with his pace and quality. He’s also great at laying on assists.” Lukaku set up 11 league goals for Inter in Serie A last season ... the only other player I see with this skill set,” Conte said, “is (Erling) Haaland. That’s why I followed (Lukaku) for such a long time. I asked Chelsea to sign him and Juve too back when he was at West Brom. His team-mates need to figure out how to get service into him. Compared with last year they now have a focal point in Lukaku and have to adapt. When that happens, Chelsea will become one of the favourites to win the Champions League.”
  • Since Lukaku’s interview and his return from a combination of injury and COVID-19 it is evident that Chelsea’s record signing and Tuchel have worked at better understanding what one wants from the other. After the Aston Villa game, Lukaku told ESPN Brasil: “Me and the coach, we had a couple of conversations about whatever he wanted from me. Obviously, I told him I’m multi-dimensional. It’s just about having a bit of clarity about how he wants to use me. And whatever he wants from me.“
  • Chelsea were surprised at the interview. This rather bypassed the standard interview process implemented at the club, where players are allocated to rights holders or specific media outlets on request and, generally, at set times around games.
  • Tuchel has made such a point of praising Lukaku’s impact off the pitch since he returned to the club. He has spoken of the player’s “big personality”, how he helps set the standard down at Cobham, and singled out his leadership qualities as someone from whom the younger members of the squad can draw inspiration. In that context, the depth of his own disappointment at the release of an “unhelpful” interview was profound.
  • Lukaku turned down an offer from Manchester City after his first season at Inter. “Why? Because I didn’t want to go. I didn’t think it was the right time. It was the first year and I didn’t want to leave Inter. I wanted to do something good for Inter because Inter saved my career.” Chelsea do not appear to have been in his plans until the opportunity to return to Stamford Bridge presented itself. “In my head I was thinking about doing a few more years at Inter. For me, in football there are three top teams: Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. The plan was to build on his legacy at Inter and then “if one day there was the possibility, to go to one of these teams. Only then would I have left Inter but first I wanted to renew (my contract). But it didn’t happen and so I said to myself: if it doesn’t happen, there’s only one team where I can imagine myself and that’s Chelsea. Why his old club apparently didn’t figure in his initial career plan post-Inter, it can perhaps be put down to Lukaku not expecting the opportunity to return to the Bridge to materialise.
  • When Sky Italia asked why things turned out the way they did in the summer, Lukaku said: “Because I grew up supporting Chelsea. They were the team I loved as an 11-year-old. There is footage of when I went to Stamford Bridge for the first time with school. I was 15 or 16.” The challenge also appealed to him. “The fact I didn’t win anything in eight years in England bothered me, it bothered me a lot. Having the chance to come back here and play in the shirt of the team I supported as a kid, well, it was hard to say no.”
  • Lukaku has failed to fully settle for multiple reasons. The transfer was finalised after pre-season so Tuchel didn’t get a chance to work on the system with Lukaku in it for a few vital weeks in training. He went 10 appearances and three months without finding the net, which was partly due to being injured for over five weeks with an ankle problem sustained on international duty for Belgium. Aside from fitness issues, Chelsea were struggling to get the ball or create chances for the striker. It had become a talking point. It is understood the player felt like he was playing in a tactical straitjacket.
  • It is believed Lukaku has also been struggling on the domestic front. Unlike in Italy, when his mother and son were living with him, the forward has been living on his own in England and has been finding that difficult. Due to contracting COVID-19 earlier this month and having to isolate for 10 days, he missed his son’s birthday and had to spend Christmas by himself too.
  • There had been reasons to be positive lately though and as it turned out, after he’d already expressed discontent to Sky Italia. Some of that angst had been sparked by getting just an eight-minute cameo against former club Manchester United.
  • With Inter top of the table, through to the Champions League knockout stages for the first time in a decade, and playing as well as they have done for as long as anyone can remember, a common response to the interview is that Lukaku misses Inter more than Inter misses him right now. If Lukaku were top of the scoring charts in the Premier League, maybe fans would be more conflicted. Instead, his successor Edin Dzeko is matching Lukaku’s goal output and while he may be a short-term solution at his age, the Bosnian is venerated in Italy as one of the best strikers of his generation.
  • Regardless of how the ultras and the media feel, what Lukaku did for Inter will not be forgotten. But a return to the club seems improbable. The club is no longer in a position to spend like it used to when he first joined and reports are gathering momentum about owners Suning once again looking for a buyer for the Nerazzurri.
  • There is already an indication that as far as punishments go, that being left out of the Liverpool squad is the last of it and the matter has been considered dealt with.
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Athletic article summary.
 
He really didnt want to leave Inter and Italy did he? He's stuck at Chelsea now for awhile.
 
He's found it difficult to adapt at Chelsea/in London both in terms of football and his personal life. And ideally, he would've liked to remain in Milan.

Fine - good. The problem is that he was on just about the best money in the Serie A (after Ronaldo, obviously) and had three more seasons on his contract. In other words, he was hardly in a desperate situation. He could have just stayed - rather than demanding a new contract.
 
Nasri made a good point on french TV yesterday. He said that Lukaku knew this ITW was gonna be public and did nothing to soften the blow with his manager and teammates.
He watched things unfold expecting no consequences whatsoever.
If I did what Lukaku did but then was played by my manager, I'd have done my best to talk to him about it and apologize to the club in advance. If he'd have done that, I'm sure things would be so much different but that's expecting too much from the multi lingual striker
 
Ole was right about him, decision to let him go to Inter was best for both sides, but most thankfully United doesn't have to put up with this circus.
 
SAFMUTD said:
Is that true? I would find it weird. I mean it's not the same Lukaku having Inter in his bio than changing it. He could just have the info outdated, doesn't necessarily means he changed it back.
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True, check on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Romelulukaku

He wrote club: Inter Milan

He is a modern day hero hahahhaha keep going

He wrote regularly there, last post 28/12, it’s the official account

Lukaku bio, Lukaku Facebook trending on Twitter

 
Van Piorsing said:
Ole was right about him, decision to let him go to Inter was best for both sides, but most thankfully United doesn't have to put up with this circus.
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Pogba the same circus, only that he doesn’t have the courage, letting Mino talking about it every month since 2017
 
::sonny:: said:
True, check on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Romelulukaku

He wrote club: Inter Milan

He is a modern day hero hahahhaha keep going

He wrote regularly there, last post 28/12, it’s the official account

Lukaku bio, Lukaku Facebook trending on Twitter

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I see it says Inter Milan but is there any proff that it was changed? I mean any image showing it said Chelsea before? Or any log in Facebook that confirms the change?

It may be that it always said Inter Milan he never changed it and now it's being noticed, as stupid as Lukaku is besides speaking 38 languages I don't think he's stupid enough to do a childish thing like changing his club in Facebook.
 
SAFMUTD said:
I see it says Inter Milan but is there any proff that it was changed? I mean any image showing it said Chelsea before? Or any log in Facebook that confirms the change?

It may be that it always said Inter Milan he never changed it and now it's being noticed, as stupid as Lukaku is besides speaking 38 languages I don't think he's stupid enough to do a childish thing like changing his club in Facebook.
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It’s absurd, post regularly there, changed the pics, profile, banner and forgot to change the club

It’s absurd
 
::sonny:: said:
Pogba the same circus, only that he doesn’t have the courage, letting Mino talking about it every month since 2017
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Of course he didn't had courage, if he let Pogba go his midfield would be reduced to minimum. Ole's inability to build strong midfield was one of his main downfall, but in case of Lukaku & Alexis somehow he had balls to pull the trigger. Ralf came here to change things and still didn't made definitive judgement on Pogba, so it's looking more and more complicated with this particular dilemma.

Not wishing bad on Lukaku, but if he goes that route he'll finish like Anelka, changing clubs every one / two years with no determination to settle.
 
::sonny:: said:
It’s absurd, post regularly there, changed the pics, profile, banner and forgot to change the club

It’s absurd
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Sorry it just doesn't make sense to me, why would he change it? when players like to make a stupid claim they post a pic like Lingard, like a post something like that. Changing the club name of the Facebook account seems really low key.
 
SAFMUTD said:
Sorry it just doesn't make sense to me, why would he change it? when players like to make a stupid claim they post a pic like Lingard, like a post something like that. Changing the club name of the Facebook account seems really low key.
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You applying logic that should be exhibited by an adult to that of a person that is acting like a child. That is why it makes no sense.
 
Zaphod2319 said:
You applying logic that should be exhibited by an adult to that of a person that is acting like a child. That is why it makes no sense.
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If we agree that Lukaku has the maturity of a 12 year old then it makes all the sense in the world. I just refuse to believe that. Anyway a team chage in facebook is nothing against the interview he gave so it makes little if no change at all to the whole situation really.
 
SAFMUTD said:
If we agree that Lukaku has the maturity of a 12 year old then it makes all the sense in the world. I just refuse to believe that. Anyway a team chage in facebook is nothing against the interview he gave so it makes little if no change at all to the whole situation really.
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If there is any truth to this, how could he not think there would be backlash from fans about what he said. More so if he was advised not to do the interview?

 
Zaphod2319 said:
If there is any truth to this, how could he not think there would be backlash from fans about what he said. More so if he was advised not to do the interview?

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:lol: :lol: :lol: it would be really interesting to know what was going through Lukaku's head. What reaction did he expected? Maybe he thought the Inter fans would cheer them, Inter squad would ask for him back, Inter managment would say he'd always have the door open and expect him to return before long and that would worry Chelsea's fan base, they couldnt bare losing him which will ultimately force Tuchel's hand into changing the system to suit him because he's a star, he's the main man.
 
Zaphod2319 said:
If there is any truth to this, how could he not think there would be backlash from fans about what he said. More so if he was advised not to do the interview?

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He seems to have very little understanding of how he comes across when he says these kinds of things. It's not the first or second time he's done it and he hasn't learned. He seems to genuinely believe he is constantly being mistreated and wronged everywhere he goes.
 
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