Yep. Especially when - as you mentioned - he's actually scoring left and right. I'm not going to lie though. Him blocking Sanchez' header yesterday with his bald head made me giggle.
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Yep. Especially when - as you mentioned - he's actually scoring left and right. I'm not going to lie though. Him blocking Sanchez' header yesterday with his bald head made me giggle.
Perfect
Made even funnier that it was Alexis too.
He's world class according to Italian serie a wannabe expert mr. Bonetti
Talking about other fans don't watch Lukaku at Inter, the guy don't watch other teams and other players but only Inter players. Can't believe he used Carragher video to strengthened his argument, how do you justify striker based on commercial or non-football match video.Even the woman that spoke first clearly don't watch enough other football team because she questioned Kane's variety. Kane had the most assist in PL this season which more than the 8 league goals Kane scored and that's alone more than Lukaku who also only scored 8 and low number assists.
Lewa, Kane & Ronaldo or Benzema are my top 3. Lukaku is probably in top 10 striker right now but he's not top 5 right now.
Exactly this. He is a good player, consistent goal scorer but is a limited, flat track bully. We were still completely right to get rid, especially looking at how he behaved in his final season.
This thread always gets bumped to vindicate his move.
He's got a crap first touch but if he was leading the line for us now he'd score more goals than Martial.
He's got a crap first touch but if he was leading the line for us now he'd score more goals than Martial.
Bruno would love his finger pointing
And as a team we’d score less.
Lukaku has 12 goals and Rashford has 10 while playing in a more difficult league and not even being in particularly good form yet
And despite all of Lukaku's goals against Sussulo et al, Inter are 5 points off top (we're 5 points off with a game in hand), came bottom of their group (we came 3rd in a more difficult group) and Lukaku's first touch just blocked a goal in the 88th minute in a game they needed to win. Goals do win matches but it depends when and against whom, and first touches might be the difference between your team qualifying from a CL group or coming last and you being a laughing stock.
Do you support United? I don't understand why you feel the need to insult our players to defend Lukaku of all people
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Loads of players leave United and don't get pelters. There's a very obvious reason why Lukaku does (he's an arrogant nob and went out of his way to piss on United). I'm surprised some people still don't get it.
I thought to run this through remini for better resolution, but the app didn't quite get it.
I've watched it a few times and I have absolutely no idea what he is doing.
Now I do find it funny, not because it's Lukaku, even though I dislike the way he shat on the club when he left and generally was just a useless lump for the time he was here.
It's simply because it's another team that's not Utd. I'm sure there are plenty of opposing fans who laughed at the third goal against Leipzig.
Now I do find it funny, not because it's Lukaku, even though I dislike the way he shat on the club when he left and generally was just a useless lump for the time he was here.
It's simply because it's another team that's not Utd. I'm sure there are plenty of opposing fans who laughed at the third goal against Leipzig.
The desperation to take offence at everything he says is as bad as the desperation to kid ourselves he’s an absolutely useless footballer. His time at United ended badly. He was struggling for form and was dropped by a manager he probably didn’t rate very highly (the same manager that 90% of redcafe currently don’t rate very highly) so he’s hardly going to speak of his time at the club in glowing terms.
Similarly, why should it boil our piss that he speaks highly of his current set-up? He’s scoring freely, playing for a better manager, just finished a season scoring almost twice as many goals for his club as he ever did at United and is breaking goal-scoring records for his country. Obviously he’s going to be full of confidence about his ability as a striker. Why get wound up about it?
Agree. After reading the thread title I thought he messed up a clear chance like Werner did on the weekend, basically saving a goal because being too greedy himself. But he`s just unlucky to be in the way with no time to react. Bad positioning? Maybe, but not outlandish. If he didn`t have a monster game against Gladbach last week they wouldn`t have even been in that position.
The obsession is weird, 150 pages on a player who has been gone for only one year and 4 months? You`d think it`d be prime CR7 who left, not 150 pages of people basically agreeing that he is shit, bit manic if you ask me.
exactly. It’s hilarious that it was also Sanchez who headed the corner, as he’s a tool of the highest order as well.
but Young, for example, and I know a lot of people didn’t rate him, but doubt anyone harbours any bad feelings towards him, as he was always available and always gave 100% when playing for the club - unlike the two viruses we sold inter.
We're not getting wound up about it, we were only getting wound up when he was playing for us and doing meme-worthy things. Fans from other teams used to laugh when he played for us, now we get to enjoy the Lukaku show.
Plus all the things Samid said.
These thread titles always make me laugh.
At least his ace positioning the other night means we dont have to worry about Inter in the Europa League this season.
*Edit* just seen it and laughed heartily. His reaction
At least his ace positioning the other night means we dont have to worry about Inter in the Europa League this season.
*Edit* just seen it and laughed heartily. His reaction
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Doesn’t necessarily mean we have an hard on for him doing crap
is he your dad or something? Don’t know why you seem so wound up or annoyed that people find a player stood like a lamppost in an offside goal stopping position hitting him quite comically on the bonce, after his self proclaimed top five striker claim funny.
Doesn’t necessarily mean we have an hard on for him doing crap
Definitely.
And if he wasn't there at all I think there's a decent chance the keeper saves it.
I’m neither wound up or annoyed. Just pointing out that most of the posts in this thread make me cringe.
There’s a lot more on here to cringe at than laughing at lukaku fecking up again but each to their own
He bottled the header and dodged responsibility. He didn't succeed at United because his mentality is poor.
And he’s succeeding at Inter because his mentality is...
out of the limelight. Smaller club, less pressure. Less focus on his obvious flaws. Less expectation to win.
lots of players don’t have the mentality to succeed at a big club, he’s clearly one of them.
" I've mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still that I become invisible to the eye."
Do we consider that he is succeeding when he has won nothing and his team failed to qualify from the CL group stage two years in a raw?
wtf was he thinking standing there like that?! No awareness at all.Yeah it's an absolute binfire.
Exactly. He was 3rd top scorer in a league where Immobile scored 13 more goals than him last season. Where a 39 year old Zlatan has a goal every 53 minutes this season.
I've not really followed Lukaku's Inter career, I've only seen the bits and bobs that get posted here. I don't think it's particularly fulfilling to obsess over ex players, either to laud them or to take pleasure in their failures, but I couldn't deny myself a titter at the state of that 90th minute block at the end of that game, particularly after the big words Lukaku has come out with recently. His big game/big moment record does seem to be pretty terrible, though generally he's a better player than he gets credit for from the cohort of United fans who actively hate him after his time here.
He’s succeeding in that he’s been a successful signing for them. Which he has been, indisputably.
That’s basically it, no massive dramas or obsession, just finding some things funny with great timing
It's disputable when he isn't helping them more than Icardi who they sold for less money. Surely Inter's goal was to be successful not that Lukaku lead them to trophyless seasons?
I'm not saying that it's a failure but that he didn't move the needle.
Lukaku isn't an absolutely elite striker, I'd say there are quite a few players ahead of him. Lewandowski, Kane, Cristiano, Suarez, Haaland, Benzema, Aguero, Aubameyang, Werner, probably even Ibrahimovic. He's in the same mould as guys like Immobile, Icardi, Cavani, Morata, Vardy, etc. for me.
However, if you had never seen anything from Lukaku, read this thread and then go on to watch one of his games, you'd be up for a huge surprise I guess. Judging by this forum, you'd expect an absolute anti footballer that muscles in a goal occasionally. Yet when I see him play, I always see stuff that really impresses me from a technical point of view. He's got great hold up play, can beat a player and also has some silky skills in his pocket, like a great cross with the outside of his foot etc.
He might be a prick, I don't know (as far as I know the quote about him saying his positioning can't be wrong was ripped out of context), but the toxicity towards him sure feels a bit over the top.
However, if you had never seen anything from Lukaku, read this thread and then go on to watch one of his games, you'd be up for a huge surprise I guess. Judging by this forum, you'd expect an absolute anti footballer that muscles in a goal occasionally. Yet when I see him play, I always see stuff that really impresses me from a technical point of view. He's got great hold up play, can beat a player and also has some silky skills in his pocket, like a great cross with the outside of his foot etc.
He might be a prick, I don't know (as far as I know the quote about him saying his positioning can't be wrong was ripped out of context), but the toxicity towards him sure feels a bit over the top.
Inter’s goal (as a team) is to be successful. Lukaku was signed to get them goals. Either scoring them himself or helping others to score. That’s how his impact will be judged.
Last season they finished second in the league but scored more goals than the title winner. They’re currently sitting second and - again - have scored more goals than the team ahead of them in the league.
Blaming Lukaku for them not winning trophies is either churlish in the extreme or a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes a team successful.
I'm not blaming Lukaku, I'm simply not claiming that his transfer was a success when it clearly isn't, he has failed to make the difference in important games which was the point of his signingw, allow them to reach a new level, something that they clearly haven't done. I also won't call him a failure because his time at Inter isn't finished.
fecking hell. Can not wrap my head around what he’s doing there. Completely offside, just watching the ball come in like all he wanted was a close up view of the action. Didn’t move at all. It’s a hilarious block
It is pure (anti) brilliance. Lukaku is brain dead. You have to watch it multiple times, and you still can’t fathom what he’s doing/thinking.
not difficult, is it?
reckon about 40% max on here are United supporters and stick up for a turd who shat on us when he was needed
Of course he didn't say that he can't be wrong. When you're reading a translation and something sounds outlandish, the first thing any halfway reasonable person should do is consider if there's been a mixup. Anything else is embarrassingly stupid.
I assume @Samid posted the quote for a laugh, otherwise the same goes for him.