I dunno about football history but for me he is hands down the worst transfer in PL history.
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I dunno about football history but for me he is hands down the worst transfer in PL history.
The football gods don't want him to score
Worse than Antony?
He's going to start having nightmares at this rate. 
That offside goal v Romania was a tidy finish in fairness.
I don't even think he's the worst Chelsea striker signing in history!
He played well last night, from his movement, running with the ball, first time strike that was offside and working hard for the team. Same with KDB and some others after that poor first game, they could be a threat with Doku as well but we'll see when the games get tougher.
Solid center forward play from him yesterday.
Think Lukaku has to be worse purely because of how obvious it was.
Hazard got a really bad injury then (as he pointed out in his interview with Mikel) couldn't get the nessesery treatment during his recovery because of lockdown. A lot of circumstances beyond his and Madrid's control transpired whereas we only had to do the basic level of due dillengence on Lukaku's attitude and lack of suitability to the style of football Tuchel had us playing yet we ignored such clear and obvious red flags.
He must have played what over 100 games against top opponents in his career by now?
Law of averages they'll be a few outliers, but in general sense he just doesn't have the technical ability or tactical awareness to outsmart the top defenders regularly.
What makes it funnier is how billy big bollocks he acted after that re-debut against Arsenal
throw sticks at stones to break his bones but words will never hurt him.
I think with Lukaku it's mainly because he's just a very unlikeable person. Look at the last clubs he's been at... United fans, Chelsea fans, Inter fans have all grown to strongly dislike him. And with this being a United forum it's hardly surprising he gets a lot of stick for bad performances. Whenever I hear commentators talking about him, they speak of him as a top striker.
In summer 2021, I warned my mate who's a Chelsea fan that he'll flop and angle for a move shortly after signing. He wouldn't listen. He blamed United's staff for Lukaku being overweight as we apparently failed to notice an underlying medical condition he had. Fast forward 4 months and he was messaging me saying I was right. It was beautiful to watch the fanbase turn against him even quicker than I expected.
Watching him constantly pointing and throwing his hands up in the air is really infuriating stuff.
Thoroughly dislikeable individual.
Infuriating player. No good. Just lucky to be in a Belgian team that has not one proper striker.
Yes, way worse than Antony. This guy not only came back for 100m but 350k a week wages only for him to say.. I want to go back to Inter.
At least Antony has given us a few good moments like Arsenal, Barcelona and Liverpool.
For me, yes. I can't think of a single worse signing for any club in PL history.
Debut goal.
He's a such a brilliant terrible player.
Lucky it wasn't a proper goalkeeper
History books won't mention the circumstances!Lucky it wasn't a proper goalkeeper
Not signing for Conte in 2017 was the worst mistake of his life
Oh wait the red carded Parma goalie is the one we were linked with last summer.
Zoom Suzuki, yeah. He's not ready for a big club. He had a horrendous Asian Cup last year too
“everyone else is stupid, except me.”
we’re fecking terrible at jettisoning our pieces of shit, yet fecked him off asap. if he doesn’t have the self awareness to wonder why that is, no wonder his best spells have been for low achieving sides with low aspirations. there’s clearly a good footballer somewhere there. he’s never worked on being better though. it’s always everyone else’s fault.
I mean fundamentally hes not wrong, anybody who knows ball could tell 10, 12 years ago that he's no Drogba (I got an infraction for calling him the black version of Chicharito then, didnt understand it to this day), so that comparison has always been lazy and frankly, a bit racist. However, he's unwilling to acknowledge his limitations and was always the first to bleat on and on about mentality and at the first sign of adversity here or Chelsea (twice), he chose to run away rather than fight for his place. Furthermore, a player of his profile is extremely unlikely to be pivotal in a top side, unless you hone those physical gifts to extremes like Haaland, so no matter how good he think he is, the fact of the matter is his record in big games, partly stemming from his playstyle and partly because he's the least clutch player on a big occasion, means he will never be in that very top echelon of footballers.
He is miles better than what we have now
The lack of self awareness to say 'i never speak' when he's burnt bridges at almost every club he's been at because he runs his month constantly is literally jaw dropping.
I find it amusing him talking about how people complained about his first touch in the Premier League.
I wonder if he has ever sat down and watched compilations of himself? If he did, he may notice that he has the first touch of a brick wall.
No self awareness whatsoever.
I wonder if he has ever sat down and watched compilations of himself? If he did, he may notice that he has the first touch of a brick wall.
No self awareness whatsoever.
He said "I don't speak often, but when I do [makes bomb sound]", so I think you misunderstood what he said, and he actually acknowledged that he has burnt bridges
so it doesn't appear he has a lack of self awareness - at least regarding that
Not sure what he means. Is he implying that his words have a lot of meaning and thus creates consequences, or is he saying that he’s just shit at it
Do you really believe that? I don’t. Not for a second. Our team is low on confidence, in poor form, lack service to the strikers, and have a horrible tactical set up. I don’t think our problems are the quality of the players, it’s the quality of the head coach. I don’t see Lukaku doing any better than the forwards we currently have, under this manager. And under a proper head coach, I would much rather have the two talented strikers in our squad than swap either of them for Lukaku.
He is far better than what we have now. Lukaku is pretty much a better version of Hojlund.
I think he means he doesn’t always address rumours and narratives he thinks are untrue or unfair but he shit tends to hit the fan the few times he does talk in the media.
The narrative that he was the new drogba was lazy and was simply just based on him being big, black and played for Chelsea. I don't think many teams at the start knew how to play him.
Despite his flaws, people forget he did well in England, he's scored the second highest amount of goals for a European nation and at a higher ratio than Cristiano Ronaldo.
Despite his flaws, people forget he did well in England, he's scored the second highest amount of goals for a European nation and at a higher ratio than Cristiano Ronaldo.