Well Lukaku hasn’t won any meaningful trophies in his career to date as far I know (please correct me if I’m wrong), so I’m not sure why you’re bringing ‘winning’ into this.
Wenger has achieved and won way more with his great football than Lukaku ever has.You are probably happier without Lukaku now, as odd as that looks, and I'm sure he is happier now. So the divorce was a win-win, no point pursuing the endless argument. Still, stats clearly show Lukaku is one of the best strikers in Europe right now.
I mentioned Wenger in the context of his beautiful but unproductive football which eventually got him sacked, which was a completely separate point. And Wenger began his managerial career 9 years before Lukaku was born, so yes, simple commonsense would dictate that Wenger should have achieved more than Lukaku.
No, but writing him to feck off when a new striker pops up is disrespectful to him and the service he has given but I guess that’s cool these days.
Well unless Lukaku moves to PSG or Bayern (but they have enough „common sense“ not to sign him) he is not going to come even close to Wenger‘s achievements in the future either. You spoke in your previous post about winning over flair, which considering Lukaku had hardly ever won anything is quite strange.
fair enough. In an ideal realistic world, who would be your ideal manager? would you take Wenger?
He looked perfectly settled in Jose's first season with the club. His performances were generally good and he netted 27 goals, he wasn't in the news about struggling to adapt to Manchester or anything of the kind.
I’m happy with Martinez. His football has been very entertaining these last four years. Going out in the semis against France was tough but could have gone either way. We did beat Brazil in the quarters so I’m pretty sure he has what it takes to take us all the way. Other than that he’s been great implementing the next generation maintaining results along the way and he isn’t shy of changing tactics according to the players available to him moving from a system where we dominated midfield to a more counterattacking approuch in response to our defense getting older and Kompany retiring.
They were ecstatic with their 3th place while they should've been devastated. That was their best and only chance at a World Cup. The massive turnout was definitely there to pay them their respects and rightfully so but each and every one of those fans out there were probably disappointed with the outcome as well. Being as happy as they were with 3th place is a loser's mentality to me. If in the end all we have to show for our golden generation is a third place, then I'd say they underachieved. Not that it's necessarily bad, but it wasn't great either (imo, it's fine if you disagree). The ONLY game that they won in which they don't necessarily shouldn't have, was Brazil. That was a great one. But Argentina was bad, Wales was bad, the USA wasn't great either, Japan was half a miracle, ... They haven't covered themselves in glory at the tournaments.
I don't like Lukaku and can't wait to see the back of him in our national team, I don't know how that's disrespectful at all tbh. He kicks a ball about for a living, you talk about him being in the army and serving our country.
Never mentioned Martial. Just glad Lukaku is gone. Moaning about his time here, constantly moaning at his team mates whilst putting in poor performances, moaning about his team mates in the press and tweeting confidential fitness information just to protect his ego. Awful character we could do without.
I’ve never been in the least bit a Lukaku fanboy but the way people have completely written this out of history is bizarre. There was plenty of derision directed towards his awful first touch, but few on here were of the opinion that he wasn’t good enough.
The stats showed he was one of the best in England when he played for us, but was he? He had decent goal tallies, but he also cost us regularly, which perhaps is the bit we aren’t seeing now he’s playing in a different country
Henry, Cristiano and Zlatan? Combined total of 1 goal in 15 games in WC/KO stages? 4 in 14 at the EUROS?
Zlatan played for Sweden not Belgium's elite supporting cast. He has the opposite issue to Lukaku in terms of personnel around him. Cristiano played RM for a chunk of his international career and played with mediocre players mostly. Ronaldo made the team of the tournament in 2004, 2012, 2016, making one final and winning another so he certainly wasn't hiding.
9/10 time Lukaku is the school bully on the play ground when the opposition is weaker. I 100% agree with your comments time to move on and stop getting annoyed at certain MSM regurgitating this " I'm annoyed at Utd" click bait.
In 2014 the genius on their bench decided to use him as 18 year old Origi's backup. Came off the bench against the US and they finally score 2. Then plays 30 minutes against argentina, in a game in which belgium did not show up, collectively as a team
All of these players have/had the ability to decide the match on their own.
