Romelu Lukaku | United confirm deal subject to medical and personal terms

How do you feel about the imminent signing of Romelu Lukaku?

  • Muppetastic!

    Votes: 456 20.6%
  • Happy enough

    Votes: 1,222 55.2%
  • Ambivalent

    Votes: 370 16.7%
  • Disappointed

    Votes: 112 5.1%
  • Oh please god no!

    Votes: 54 2.4%

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I dont get people here. When we were linked with Morata or even fecking Perisic, they didnt overly criticize the player but said "Oh if the manager wants him, then Im okay with it since I trust the manager" but when it comes to Lukaku, everyone is just criticizing the player.
 
Either he has a future at Madrid or he has not but that is irrelevant in the discussion. Morata is a damn good player and him being a Madrid reject does not change that at all. Robben and Sneijder were also Madrid rejects.

It makes 0 sense to say Lukaku for Morata is a beter deal because one is a PL proven striker for Everton and the other is a player who is second choice to Benzema at Madrid. Morata at Everton would also be first choice and if you are scoring 15 goals in 1k minutes in la liga, you certainly are able to score 25 goals or more in the PL if you are given 3k+ minutes of playing time.

Madrid is just a worldclass team atm, not getting to play every single minute there is not something to be ashamed off or that means you must be a poor player.

Reason Madrid is asking £70m for him is because they don't want to sell him, it is also the reason he is not transferred to ACM. Zidane has asked Perez not to sell Morata because he wants him at Madrid and it is the reason they bought him back from Juve last year. Not a reject by any means, just a player that wants to move to another club to get more minutes

Weak argument, Sir.

Robben and Sneijder moved with a lower transfer fee. Because of their history with injury. And new galacticos project. Tried to read before put your non-sense argument. Both are the best player in Holland. Morata is not even considered best in Spain. A good damn player you said, but not in Zidane eyes. Good for you does not mean good for others. I followed serie A when Morata played at Juve, if he is that good, Juve will try bid higher than the buyback clause. But they didn't. Means this player is replaceable. And with whom ? The fat Higuain. The fat man who has twice ability of your Morata.


Morata will outscore Lukaku if he play for Everton. Oh really ? Give me your base assumption. The midfield of benches in Madrid lead by Isco, the genius, Kovacic, and Ascencio. It is a luxury you wont have at Everton. Everton midfield is Barkley, Gueye, Holding. Lukaku will score twice if he is being served by Isco and Ascencio. How would Morata scored twice than Lukaku with that service ? Against strong fast EPL defenders from top to mid clubs ? If he could not do it at Seria A, playing with Italy champion, how could you assume he will be better playing with mid team like Everton.

Madrid does not want to sell but put 70 million ? Oh yeah right. They have mugged up once with Ronaldo and saw us being mugged once again by Juve (Pogba, i still think its overvalue transaction).

They need to revitalize their attack with high profile players and also to maintain the elite status as the big clubs.

They are trying to offload Morata and James for 100 millions plus, for buying Mbappe or perhaps Aubemeyang.

And show me the fact Zidane asked for Morata buyback. Written fact. If, he was asked Perez, it is for a back up striker. And while Perez not dump he exercise the cheapest and safest. Real Madrid own player.

But i dont think you will get the idea ha, even after i told you i followed Serie A regularly.

However, still i respect your opinion, Sir. Cheers.
 
No offense to resident Everton fans here, honestly, but it's a tad amusing United took a Ferrari off of them a decade ago, now back trading in that old broken down model and riding off with their new one.
 
ROMLUUUUUUUU.

Pulled Madrid's pants down again. But will still probably be #ForeverSixth, and just win the CL instead.
 
No offense to resident Everton fans here, honestly, but it's a tad amusing United took a Ferrari off of them a decade ago, now back trading in that old broken down model and riding off in their new one.
We paid 130m to them for their 3 players. Think thats more than enough.
 
I wasn't sold at first.

But I think he would be great, he's big, powerful, strong and still has a high level of technical ability.

He'll bully the feck out of defenders, plus he's a great target man and has great link-up play too.

Also think he'll link up quite well with Pogba and and allow Rashford/Martial to thrive by drawing defenders out of position.
 
I wasn't sold at first.

But I think he would be great, he's big, powerful, strong and still has a high level of technical ability.

He'll bully the feck out of defenders, plus he's a great target man and has great link-up play too.

Also think he'll link up quite well with Pogba and and allow Rashford/Martial to thrive by drawing defenders out of position.

Completely agree with this, I think he'll be a great fit.
 
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.
He's such a good goalscorer that he is not reliant on crossing or that type of game. Infact last season we did not even play with wingers once Bolasie was injured early on. Miralles and Barkley as the wide men who both like to drift in and Baines crossing is not what it was and he hardly laid up many for Lukaku.

He will do great. His best performances come when we had the opposition pinned in and you can engage him alot and get him alot of touches. United should be able to do that most games.

His weakness would be his decision making on the counter attack and fecking up an easy pass or situation a bit to often. Makes me laugh really becuase for years everyone kept telling me he only suited a counter attack system which is not true at all.

He's going to great i am sure of it i just hope we can hold out for 90m.
 
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.

In the 95/96 season when Shearer scored 31 goals in 35 matches :

Against the 7 worst sides - he scored 15 goals
Bolton (20) . 3 goals
QPR (19) - 2 goals
Man C (18) - 2 goals
Soton (17) 1 goal
Coventry (16) - 3 goals
Sheffield W (15) - 2 goals
Wimbledon (14) - 2 goals

Against the top 6 sides - he scored 2 (1 against us and 1 against Villa)

So does that mean that Shearer was useless and only scared against poor sides ?

And I don't mean it as a criticism against your post - but a few other before you who claimed he only scored against poor sides
 
Much happier than buying Morata off Real.

He's young and scores goals. He will be useful.
 
No offense to resident Everton fans here, honestly, but it's a tad amusing United took a Ferrari off of them a decade ago, now back trading in that old broken down model and riding off with their new one.

We didnt leave them a proper Ferrari though. We replaced the original motor with a Fiat one and had some accidents throughout the years, finally we left a used condom on the driving seat as a present.
 
In the 95/96 season when Shearer scored 31 goals in 35 matches :

Against the 7 worst sides - he scored 15 goals
Bolton (20) . 3 goals
QPR (19) - 2 goals
Man C (18) - 2 goals
Soton (17) 1 goal
Coventry (16) - 3 goals
Sheffield W (15) - 2 goals
Wimbledon (14) - 2 goals

Against the top 6 sides - he scored 2 (1 against us and 1 against Villa)

So does that mean that Shearer was useless and only scared against poor sides ?
BOOM!
 
In the 95/96 season when Shearer scored 31 goals in 35 matches :

Against the 7 worst sides - he scored 15 goals
Bolton (20) . 3 goals
QPR (19) - 2 goals
Man C (18) - 2 goals
Soton (17) 1 goal
Coventry (16) - 3 goals
Sheffield W (15) - 2 goals
Wimbledon (14) - 2 goals

Against the top 6 sides - he scored 2 (1 against us and 1 against Villa)

So does that mean that Shearer was useless and only scared against poor sides ?

Blackburn only won 1 title and didn't do much in Europe, so yeah. Useless English sod.
 
No offense to resident Everton fans here, honestly, but it's a tad amusing United took a Ferrari off of them a decade ago, now back trading in that old broken down model and riding off with their new one.
:lol:
:(

Atleast this time we look to be getting a fairer price.
 
He's going to great i am sure of it i just hope we can hold out for 90m.

You get Rooney with subsidised wages as a sweetener, that makes up for the £15m

Just imagine Rooney running at defenders full pelt :drool:
 
He's such a good goalscorer that he is not reliant on crossing or that type of game. Infact last season we did not even play with wingers once Bolasie was injured early on. Miralles and Barkley as the wide men who both like to drift in and Baines crossing is not what it was and he hardly laid up many for Lukaku.

He will do great. His best performances come when we had the opposition pinned in and you can engage him alot and get him alot of touches. United should be able to do that most games.

His weakness would be his decision making on the counter attack and fecking up an easy pass or situation a bit to often. Makes me laugh really becuase for years everyone kept telling me he only suited a counter attack system which is not true at all.

He's going to great i am sure of it i just hope we can hold out for 90m.

Cheers, that's reassuring, esp the bolded segment in particular.
 
I wasn't sold at first.

But I think he would be great, he's big, powerful, strong and still has a high level of technical ability.

He'll bully the feck out of defenders, plus he's a great target man and has great link-up play too.

Also think he'll link up quite well with Pogba and and allow Rashford/Martial to thrive by drawing defenders out of position.
Sorry but that's plainly false.
 
No offense to resident Everton fans here, honestly, but it's a tad amusing United took a Ferrari off of them a decade ago, now back trading in that old broken down model and riding off with their new one.

:lol: It's basically a swap deal: Lukaku for Rooney!

(Plus £75m)
 
Sorry but that's plainly false.

He's such a good goalscorer that he is not reliant on crossing or that type of game. Infact last season we did not even play with wingers once Bolasie was injured early on. Miralles and Barkley as the wide men who both like to drift in and Baines crossing is not what it was and he hardly laid up many for Lukaku.

He will do great. His best performances come when we had the opposition pinned in and you can engage him alot and get him alot of touches. United should be able to do that most games.

His weakness would be his decision making on the counter attack and fecking up an easy pass or situation a bit to often. Makes me laugh really becuase for years everyone kept telling me he only suited a counter attack system which is not true at all.

He's going to great i am sure of it i just hope we can hold out for 90m.

Everton fans seem to disagree with you
 
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.

We could've used someone to score 4 against Bournemouth, 2 against Hull and 2 against Waftord instead of losing 7 points last season in those games.
 
I'm torn. I've never been a huge fan to be honest, I question his touch/control and technical ability. Having said that if he can score 25 league goals for Everton then he should do well for us.

We do get absolutely rinsed on every transfer, it has to be said. I know it's not my money, and the club is doing very well commercially right now, but do we really have the funds to be spending 200m every summer?
 
In the 95/96 season when Shearer scored 31 goals in 35 matches :

Against the 7 worst sides - he scored 15 goals
Bolton (20) . 3 goals
QPR (19) - 2 goals
Man C (18) - 2 goals
Soton (17) 1 goal
Coventry (16) - 3 goals
Sheffield W (15) - 2 goals
Wimbledon (14) - 2 goals

Against the top 6 sides - he scored 2 (1 against us and 1 against Villa)

So does that mean that Shearer was useless and only scared against poor sides ?

And I don't mean it as a criticism against your post - but a few other before you who claimed he only scored against poor sides

This is some handy statistics to have.

Personally I don't care who he scores against as long as he scores - plus (no offence to Everton fans) as a Everton player he's not expected to do well against bigger teams, so asking the question of why he doesn't score against better/bigger teams isn't directly comparable.
 
I'm torn. I've never been a huge fan to be honest, I question his touch/control and technical ability. Having said that if he can score 25 league goals for Everton then he should do well for us.

We do get absolutely rinsed on every transfer, it has to be said. I know it's not my money, and the club is doing very well commercially right now, but do we really have the funds to be spending 200m every summer?

Of course we have, just like we had 100m to spend 5 years ago. The amount of money in football nowadays is huge
 
Everton fans seem to disagree with you
It's amazing how he scored so many goals.

He's shit against the big teams in which Everton play on the counter but he only suits a counter attack system.

He only scores against the shit teams but can't do it against packed defences which the shit teams deploy. (And they do against Everton, trust me).
 
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