If you read the chain you’d see I was saying he initially did have some similarities at Anderlecht and at WBA you could see it as well. He was much more involved with his back to goal and was better aerially - maybe just because of his size but again, there were obvious similarities. He also actively modelled his game on Drogba is again you’d assume there were some similarities.
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Nah, let’s just agree to disagree. I don’t think they’ve ever been anything alike, not even during his WBA/Everton days.
He can't bully centre backs with his back to goal and he's crap in the air.
Absolutely, as many have already pointed out but that poster seems quite convinced that it’s not the case (or wasn’t at the very least), so it’s a pointless discussion to continue.
Yeah I can’t change how people see football, for me it was pretty clear for others apparently (assuming they did actually watch him at those clubs and aren’t just YouTubing goals) it’s not so we move on.
Not sure the bits in brackets are really necessary
but alas, each to their own, bud.To be clear, some of the people you‘re discussing with were talking about him at the time on this very forum. This was from over 10 years ago:
Brwned said:
It’s got nothing to do with YouTube.
You post way too little these days bud
Because then I’d get why they might think that. It’s kind of like when you watch early Drogba and he plays completely differently to how he did at Chelsea - these players evolve so much over time. I think early Lukaku has a number of similarities whereas current Lukaku really has almost nothing in common with Drogba.Not sure the bits in brackets are really necessary
I just packed a lifetime of footy conversations into a few years! Got nothing left in the tank on that front. Most sport debates are just the same circular conversations with minor changes to the details, you reach a certain point where you can’t really find anything new to say or see. Don’t you think?
YouTube comment explained above.
re the analysis wasn’t that during AVB’s tenure? If so surely there’s some acknowledgement it could be a tactical change because you can contrast Chelsea to WBA and see the difference basically within the same time frame with how Clarke used him and how his goal output skyrocketed?
Lukaku at WBA and Drogba at Marseille below. For me they move in a very similar way, strike the ball in a similar way off their left and score a number of similar goals.
(now you can watch the YouTube of Lukaku
@Ish)YouTube comment explained above.
re the analysis wasn’t that during AVB’s tenure? If so surely there’s some acknowledgement it could be a tactical change because you can contrast Chelsea to WBA and see the difference basically within the same time frame with how Clarke used him and how his goal output skyrocketed?
Lukaku at WBA and Drogba at Marseille below. For me they move in a very similar way, strike the ball in a similar way off their left and score a number of similar goals.
(now you can watch the YouTube of Lukaku
Nah it was when he was at West Brom, halfway through the season, you can see the date if you click through. Like you said Youtube is a very poor way to judge a player. Drogba‘s playing style was so different it’s hard to believe people are still saying it, unless they just remember Drogba as a big black guy. I think it just shows how sticky labels can be. Most people adopted the new Drogba label before they’d even seen him, it was just how he was introduced.
I agree with @JPRouve that Lukaku’s always been like Mario Gomez. This kind of fits the description:
Brwned said:
His hold up play is still poor, his finishing is still inconsistent, his all-round intelligence is better but still very much sub-standard at this level…just like Mario Gomez. He was never anything more than that. Some people just got carried away.
RDCR07 said:
Scary stuff.
Then I don’t really get your criticism of him from the quote you posted if it wasn’t from AVB. He scored a load of different types of goal at WBA so saying he was just in the box and missing a lot doesn’t ring true in my opinion.
I actually think he resembled a (not as good) version of Torres.
To cut a long story short, both need(ed) space to use their acceleration to beat defenders and neither had the craft in their game to help break down tight defenses on the regular.
Looks like Europe's Littlest Hobo is on the move again.
Wow. What do they see in him?!
They're desperate for a striker I guess? He'll end up in Saudi Arabia though, about a week after saying he's not going there.
The feckload of goals he scores in Serie A.
"every shot I take I lose a new friend,can't stay for long just turn around and I'm gone again"
*checks Serie A top scorers*
Yes, yes, that must be it...
(14th; played 25, scored 10).
Pretty sure he's played more than 25 games in Serie A.
''Maybe tomorrow I'll want to see out a contract but until tomorrow I'll just keep moving clubs''
I got the tune stuck in my head now
He's coming off a poor season in Serie A and lost his place to 50 year old Dzeko. At one point in March/April, Lukaku had something like 3 goals in the league and only 1 from open play. Ended the season better though
Honestly he is so shit right now i wish he regains his confidence and atleast scores a good amount of goals.
The internet (which is obviously never wrong) tells me he missed 18 games through injury.
He's had a crap season last year but his record in Italy is very good so it's no surprise that Italian sides would want him.
Hey Dzeko's only 49.
Is he close yet to having half a billion spent on him in transfer fees?
Inter apparently has a bid rejected. It must have been a crazy low offer like less than £20M or something because I can’t imagine Chelsea wanting anything other than getting rid of this guy.
I wish he was in the bargain bin and Chelsea would just give him to us on loan. I miss Rom.
I guess Juve are out of the picture. If Inter can put £30-40M on the table, I would snatch their arm off.
He missed half the season because of injuries.
He ended the season with 14/7 G/A contributions from 37 appearances, slightly better than Edin Dzeko, who had 14/7 G/A contributions from 52 appearances.
He is not a world beater, but a player with a 200+ goal record always has a place in top-level football.
It was a year long deal with an "obligatory" purchase option that wasn't actually obligatory and was based on appearances, goals, etc. Inter tried to essentially get him on loan without a fee and were rightly told to do one - what is concerning is that both Inter and Lukaku seem intent on doing everything possible to destroy any leverage Chelsea can drum up.
Can we report them for fraud?
We paid them £97M two years ago and for one of those years he was back playing for them on loan and now they’re trying to sign him back for like 10% of the original fee. Lukaku gave that stupid interview about wanting to go back to Inter literally 3 months after signing a 5 year deal. He wanted the big contract but there’s zero chance he ever wanted to actually play for Chelsea. This is collusion. The feckers have been plotting and scheming against us from the beginning.
Can we report them for fraud?
We paid them £97M two years ago and for one of those years he was back playing for them on loan and now they’re trying to sign him back for like 10% of the original fee. Lukaku gave that stupid interview about wanting to go back to Inter literally 3 months after signing a 5 year deal. He wanted the big contract but there’s zero chance he ever wanted to actually play for Chelsea. This is collusion. The feckers have been plotting and scheming against us from the beginning.
Yeah it's infuriating - especially because personally I bought into all the bullshit (re-signing him 10 years after he first signed, him destroying Arsenal early on, the fecking awesome twitter video with Public Service Announcement off The Black Album behind it, etc).
EDIT: This one - this was fecking sick, I was so hyped:
Can we report them for fraud?
We paid them £97M two years ago and for one of those years he was back playing for them on loan and now they’re trying to sign him back for like 10% of the original fee. Lukaku gave that stupid interview about wanting to go back to Inter literally 3 months after signing a 5 year deal. He wanted the big contract but there’s zero chance he ever wanted to actually play for Chelsea. This is collusion. The feckers have been plotting and scheming against us from the beginning.
Yeah, I too am absolutely convinced these cnuts planned it from the start.
The money was simply too good for Inter to turn down so they came up with a scheme where Lukaku would throw his toys out of the pram and he'd be back at Inter sooner rather than later, completely fecking over Chelsea but benefiting the other two parties financially. The infamous Sky Italia interview pretty much gave it away instantly.
I’m mostly joking to be fair but it’s damn frustrating that we’re in this situation. Lukaku 100% manipulated his way out of the club. He never wanted to be here but he wanted the money.
Given that they want Lukaku so much, and we clearly need a GK, I’m very annoyed that we didn’t at least try to leverage our way into that Onana conversation.
I honestly wasn’t at all. I probably talked myself into thinking it’s a good transfer for us once it was clear he was coming but I disliked the move from the beginning of the rumours. Totally the wrong profile for the team we had at the time.