Romelu Lukaku | Napoli watch

Joined us for £70 million+.

Joined Inter for £60 million+.

Joined Chelsea for £100 million+.

Has there ever been such an average player that commanded such ludicrous amounts of money? Half convinced he is some sort of money laundering operation.
 
Irwin99 said:
Some of his build up play and flicks on were actually decent and well worked, but my god, seriously, there must be a curse on this guy. No one can be that bad in those situations.
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Always seems like there's a few players like that. Have enough about them to make the chances and show enough quality to play for big teams in big moments but then fluff the most important chances.

Higuain comes to mind
 
Shane88 said:
Joined us for £70 million+.

Joined Inter for £60 million+.

Joined Chelsea for £100 million+.

Has there ever been such an average player that commanded such ludicrous amounts of money? Half convinced he is some sort of money laundering operation.
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His ex agent was one of the biggest crooks in Football.
 
Fuking should be ashamed of himself. Came on to make the difference and barely broke a sweat. That’s even before the miss. Awfulnplayer
 
Hopefully inter send him back to Chelsea and potchettino decides use him
 
captaincantona said:
Fuking should be ashamed of himself. Came on to make the difference and barely broke a sweat. That’s even before the miss. Awfulnplayer
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Meh, he was decent with his flick on/link up, we all knew he isn’t the type to put himself about or use his physique well.

The issue is he always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and has horrendous finishing in these games. You just expect it to happen, can’t even claim prescience.
 
With all the talk about Halland it was actually Inter's strikers that won them the trophy.
 
Shane88 said:
Joined us for £70 million+.

Joined Inter for £60 million+.

Joined Chelsea for £100 million+.

Has there ever been such an average player that commanded such ludicrous amounts of money? Half convinced he is some sort of money laundering operation.
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Alvaro Morata is another one.
 
Second time he's blocked a goalbound shot in a big final, and the missed header was amateur level. He's absolutely useless.
 
11101 said:
Second time he's blocked a goalbound shot in a big final, and the missed header was amateur level. He's absolutely useless.
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The thing is, he's not just unlucky. He's actually selfish and delusional to think he could head that ball, instead of turning around to see where it was going
 
MDFC Manager said:
I was just wondering what if inter started with him and then brought on Dzeko later.
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Yeah, Dzeko offered no threat at all in my opinion. Lukaku immediately got Inter further up the pitch, won some headed duels and did ok in that regard, it's just his atrocious finishing and almost uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time that astonishes me. It's genuinely mind-blowing how it happens. I'd say he's cursed but I think he's just more clumsy.
 
Rocksy said:
Relative to what? At the top, top level, he’s definitely bad. He’s a standout liability in all of the big games.
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To most other footballers in Europe's top 5 leagues. In games like this one, yeah he is very bad because you can never depend on him.
 
Irwin99 said:
Yeah, Dzeko offered no threat at all in my opinion. Lukaku immediately got Inter further up the pitch, won some headed duels and did ok in that regard, it's just his atrocious finishing and almost uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time that astonishes me. It's genuinely mind-blowing how it happens. I'd say he's cursed but I think he's just more clumsy.
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Yup. Agreed. Lukaku’s link up play was actually decent. He’s just a clown show once he’s inside the box.
 
InfiniteBoredom said:
Meh, he was decent with his flick on/link up, we all knew he isn’t the type to put himself about or use his physique well.

The issue is he always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and has horrendous finishing in these games. You just expect it to happen, can’t even claim prescience.
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BBC text during and after the game today.
At 14:52 Simon Stone comments on Lukakus miss but then adds “ I hope any criticism of the Belgian remains just that.”
What’s he on about there?
 
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Never have I rated a player less and he's still underperformed.
 
So that must be the voodoo shit Zlatan was talking about. This guy is cursed. In how many big games he sabotaged his team now?

We all know his big match performances at United.

Own goal against Sevilla in europa league final in his first season at Inter which lost them the final.

Several misses for Belgium that took them out of the World Cup.

Same shit again in another big final tonight.

Has there been any worse player than him in big games? The guy is the antithesis of "big game player".
 
I feel sorry for him, kinda. He has to go back to Chelsea now.
 
His transfers must add up to 250m which is insane especially as it's probably only four transfers.
 
The miss wasn't that bad but it's gonna be blown out of proportion because it's Lukaku and he's a repeat offender. A header that close to the goal doesn't have to be placed, just smashed into the back of the net. Sometimes you're just unlucky and the keeper is on the trajectory. You always expect a striker to score from that distance but you can find comparable missed chances every week. Haaland had a couple against Courtois.

Him blocking Di Marco's header was poor positioning and typical Lukaku though. It looks bad, although he hardly prevented a sure goal: Dias was right behind him and the header wasn't powerful. Hard to tell where the ball was heading.

Outside of that, he's had two other chances that he created for himself (two shots with one on target) and his link up play was decent. But he typically didn't offer enough on and off the ball: didn't press or make good runs and not enough touches. His miss and his block are what people will ultimately remember.

A negative performance overall, and probably the last time we've seen him at this level.
 
We've reached the summit. After years of searching, we have finally found it... THE ULTIMATE FOOTBALLING MEME!!!

Romelu Lukaku is now the biggest joke of the beautiful game, and there is nothing he can do about it. I thought that his shitshow against Croatia at the World Cup was the lowest point of his career, but I might have to reconsider that after what I saw of him against City. Someone from a closed group of United fans on Facebook said it right: "Lukaku needs to be fired from all forms of football."

Gotta tell it as it is: Lukaku is a massive fecking choker. This is not hyperbally; it has been the case for nearly 10 years now. All you have to look is the way he works in big games - fluffing shots with an open goal, shooting straight at the goalie when a big chunk of the goal is wide open, blocking his teammates' shots, sending weak shots wide from a good shooting position. That's basically choke after choke after choke after choke, and it keeps on happening. I thought Lautaro Martinez was too selfish when he was all alone against Ederson, but I now understand why he did what he did. There was no reason to trust Lukaku to bury it.

How the feck does Lukaku keep doing it? So many situations where he should score goals, he keeps on blowing like Angela White. Socrates, give me the knowledge to understand. There's no way he can keep being this bad under pressure! Somebody tell me! Do you hear me? Someone tell me he does it! I HAVE TO KNOW!! I HAVE TO KNOOOOOW!!!:eek::eek::eek::wenger::wenger::wenger::mad::mad::mad:
 
RedDevilQuebecois said:
We've reached the summit. After years of searching, we have finally found it... THE ULTIMATE FOOTBALLING MEME!!!

Romelu Lukaku is now the biggest joke of the beautiful game, and there is nothing he can do about it. I thought that his shitshow against Croatia at the World Cup was the lowest point of his career, but I might have to reconsider that after what I saw of him against City. Someone from a closed group of United fans on Facebook said it right: "Lukaku needs to be fired from all forms of football."

Gotta tell it as it is: Lukaku is a massive fecking choker. This is not hyperbally; it has been the case for nearly 10 years now. All you have to look is the way he works in big games - fluffing shots with an open goal, shooting straight at the goalie when a big chunk of the goal is wide open, blocking his teammates' shots, sending weak shots wide from a good shooting position. That's basically choke after choke after choke after choke, and it keeps on happening. I thought Lautaro Martinez was too selfish when he was all alone against Ederson, but I now understand why he did what he did. There was no reason to trust Lukaku to bury it.

How the feck does Lukaku keep doing it? So many situations where he should score goals, he keeps on blowing like Angela White. Socrates, give me the knowledge to understand. There's no way he can keep being this bad under pressure! Somebody tell me! Do you hear me? Someone tell me he does it! I HAVE TO KNOW!! I HAVE TO KNOOOOOW!!!:eek::eek::eek::wenger::wenger::wenger::mad::mad::mad:
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It's what happens when you move an above average football player into the spotlight of top level football. I've said it multiple times in the past that this guy has no place at top level football - he's mid-table mediocrity yet he kept getting chance after chance after chance.
 
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