Why would we need an upgrade on Lukaku if as you keep repeatedly posting he’s the 8th best ever striker in the premier league. That’s a pretty hard upgrade .
the other stat you keep banging in about is win percentage. Our forwards are in track to beat Lukakus goals for the season from last year. How is that if we are shitter? Or would Lukaku have scored less aswell?
mot seems your blinded by stats and not actual gameplay.
I agree he needed to be upgraded and that is yet to be done.
It's funny how players are so overrated once they leave the club and people forget how awful they were for us. What he does this season won't change how bad he was for us last season. He averaged around 1 goal per month and somehow people believe he would be scoring a lot just because he is doing it in Serie A.
He started so well for us in 2017-18, scoring 7 goals in 7 games. In the remaining 27 games he scored 9 goals.
Aug - September (7 games) - 7 goals
October (3 games) - 0 Goals
November (4 games) - 1 goal
December (7 games) - 2 goals
Jan (3 games) - 2 goals
Feb (3 games) - 2 goals
March (3 games) - 1 goal
April (4 games) - 1 goal
May (0 games)
He averaged around 1 goal per month, after his great start scoring 7 goals in 7 games, he scored 9 goals in other 27 games.
2018-19 was even worse, scored 6 goals in 3 games (brace) and then 6 goals in remaining 26 league games.
Aug (3 games) - 1 goal
Sept (4 games) - 3 goals
October (3 games) - 0 Goals
November (2 games) - 0 goal
December (5 games) - 3 goals
Jan (4 games) - 1 goal
Feb (4 games) - 2 goals
March (2 games) - 2 goals
April (5 games) - 0 goal
May (0 games)
Scored 5 goals in second half of the season. At this point last season he scored 8 league goals, same as Martial this season.
His goal scoring was inconsistent here, people somehow think he would have scored in all the games where we blanked this season. He was decent for us, scored few important goals and also did well in build up in few games, came up with some superb passes but overall it was disappointing transfer, going by his record in the league, the fee we paid, wages he was on and the untouchable status that he played no matter how bad he was.
Problem was never selling him, we did well to get good fee, problem was incompetent board who knew he wanted out from March and still didn't sign a replacement. It's not even like for like replacement, should have spent good money on a goal scoring right wing forward.