Yeah, that's what I don't agree. Pogba will sit mostly in a midfield two. Agree with the winger, just not so sure it's for the left.
Romelu Lukaku | United confirm deal subject to medical and personal terms
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woosh straight over my head then. my bad
What fee they were expecting btw? You can't get a more PL proven striker than Lukaku at this rate.
He's 24, and people are talking about burnouts? Christ... If we can get 5 good years out of him, I'll be over the moon.
I don't think we'll play with only 2 midfielders unless we fail to sign a DM this summer. Anyway we'll know for sure what our plans are during the pre-season.
Are we running out of things to complain about now?
It's almost like he has too much power without the finesse at times. I am hoping that under Jose(assuming we sign him) he can get a bit more disciplined and hustle the oppo modified into rushing their passes rather than just waiting around for a through pass and hope to power past a defender. Nees to add to his overall game.
Strange how this has gone completely quiet. And what should we believe?
Why stop at 2 then? What if the both of them cant score? Lets get 5 just to be sure.
that it's done? We don't brief the press on "maybe transfers". The latest update from Paul Joyce, basically the top merseyside journo says it's done.
IT'S DONE
Well, one thing's for sure, this did not happen quickly. We can walk the cat back now all the way to his interview (ages ago) in which he was certain he'd leave and sounded like he knew the destination as well. Everton started spending this money some time ago too, the only thing that did happen quickly is the reporting on the whole thing, because once again the media were completely clueless about it.
It just goes to show, that constant moaning about a lack of 'transfer activity' is completely ill-founded. There's want of you being informed about the activity, rather than the activity itself, and that's no one's fault but the fans.
It just goes to show, that constant moaning about a lack of 'transfer activity' is completely ill-founded. There's want of you being informed about the activity, rather than the activity itself, and that's no one's fault but the fans.
We lost two (very important) players on an otherwise already short of numbers attacking squad, in a season where we couldn't find the goal. Of course, one striker is more than enough.
He did, I managed to put on a £757m release clause in his contract. I hit treble figures for goals in many seasons, and he was always the top scorer.
Yeah. We'll need to get used to it at least for the premier league.
25 league goals and not a single penalty among them. That's seriously impressive. 5 of Kane's 29 league goals were penalties, so nobody scored more from open play than Lukaku.
Are you expecting news by the minute or something?
For that price, you want to see value. Rooney, Ronaldo and Rio type value.
If he doesn't completely flop this season, I'll be over the moon. High expectations and a big price tag.
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Haven't been able to follow the thread, logging into 40-50 new pages. Still a wee bit ambivalent about this but as long as he gets the goals and rectifies our major problem it'd be great.
@SilentWitness @BigDunc9
Apologies if you've been tagged already or if this has been discussed already.
Just wondering if our approach or our attacking personnel are conducive to Lukaku's style myself. The likes of Mkhitaryan, Mata, Rashford, Martial etc prefer cutting in from wider areas and aren't exactly renowned for their service from out wide. Likewise Valencia (although he's improved vastly last season but is not a great source of supply imo) and Shaw aren't exactly great crossers themselves. Blind is arguably our best crosser but doesn't play LB much.
That is not to pigeonhole Lukaku as a limited and an exclusive aerially oriented goalscorer. He's certainly got a nice finish and pretty deceptive pace on him, and is capable of scoring various types of goals. However, he does seem like the sort of forward who'd prefer playing in a more wide-ish system with a decent supply of service from wide, as opposed to a more centrally oriented system with more narrow-ish forwards.
Now I'm no expert on him or Everton for that matter, so would really appreciate it if you could shed some light on these issues whilst providing some insight into Everton's style of play (how integral were the likes of Coleman-Baines, and to a much lesser extent Delofeu and Mirallas, to Everton and Lukaku, and whether he'd be able to adapt to a more central system, his link-up play etc).
Cheers.
@SilentWitness @BigDunc9
Apologies if you've been tagged already or if this has been discussed already.
Just wondering if our approach or our attacking personnel are conducive to Lukaku's style myself. The likes of Mkhitaryan, Mata, Rashford, Martial etc prefer cutting in from wider areas and aren't exactly renowned for their service from out wide. Likewise Valencia (although he's improved vastly last season but is not a great source of supply imo) and Shaw aren't exactly great crossers themselves. Blind is arguably our best crosser but doesn't play LB much.
That is not to pigeonhole Lukaku as a limited and an exclusive aerially oriented goalscorer. He's certainly got a nice finish and pretty deceptive pace on him, and is capable of scoring various types of goals. However, he does seem like the sort of forward who'd prefer playing in a more wide-ish system with a decent supply of service from wide, as opposed to a more centrally oriented system with more narrow-ish forwards.
Now I'm no expert on him or Everton for that matter, so would really appreciate it if you could shed some light on these issues whilst providing some insight into Everton's style of play (how integral were the likes of Coleman-Baines, and to a much lesser extent Delofeu and Mirallas, to Everton and Lukaku, and whether he'd be able to adapt to a more central system, his link-up play etc).
Cheers.
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Paul Joyce Lukaku Update
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...-fee-with-everton-for-romelu-lukaku-2hchjmnnj
@Raoul can we have this threadmarked?
He's the top merseyside journo and it doesn't get much more credible than paul joyce.
Craig Norwood and Paul Joyce confirming it? This is literally a done deal then
Naturally, Lukaku is now deemed useless across all platforms.
Le'ts just choose to ignore the fact that Lukaku has played nearly thrice the amount of minutes and Giroud was primarily used as a super sub. I love per 90 minute stats without context.
Have United confirmed it yet ?
He's class, each season he has improved from being an all out poacher when at West Brom to a target man player that can hold the ball and is very capable at assisting others and controlling the forward line. His touch is still a downfall on occasions but you managed with Rooney for a decade with that problem pretty alright! I reckon he'll easily hit 30+ goals a season overall.
4 against Bournemouth, 4 against Sunderland, 2 against Hull and 1 against Middlesbrough. 2 against Watford as well.
So basically, he loves putting relegation fodder to the sword.
On the other hand, he did well against City, Arsenal and Leicester. And he has a fantastic record against West Ham.
I would have preferred the white player Kane, but he'll do just as well.
Look, you can downplay a striker efforts by anything except what you're saying.
90% of any striker goals in any league will be against bottom half anyway. Can you bring us the records of Costa, Zlatan, Aguero and Sanchez against top 6 teams vs against bottom half ?!
His very bad first touch, lack of ability to play with his back against goal and overall link-up play is the reason why I didn't want this to happen. He's probably good enough to get us into top 4 but not a striker to win you the league and be competitive in the champions league with.
If he can't improve on those areas of weakness, he will flop here.
Lukaku tends to fail big time when he's up against tactically good teams. He will score against lower end teams but never shows up against the top 6.
If he can't improve on those areas of weakness, he will flop here.
Lukaku tends to fail big time when he's up against tactically good teams. He will score against lower end teams but never shows up against the top 6.
What difference does the colour of their skin make?!
Wtf?
I understand your point, however that was whilst playing for an inferior team. I'm sure with the service City would have provided he'd have caused us real problems.
No, I can't. Can you, seen as you're so interested?
One thing I will tell you without checking again, is that Agüero's record is pretty much flawless in that regard.
the confidence in that tweet gets me humming
Scores goals + We need goals = Good signing.
A lot, if you're a racist.
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