Romu ball-rollin' that body,
Got every defender in here guessing
Romelu Lukaku | United confirm deal subject to medical and personal terms
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran discuss a horrific month of December and a depressing FOUR defeats in a row - the latest coming against Wolves and Newcastle.
They discuss how much blame is on Ruben Amorim and rank our squad against other Premier League teams.
Do we have any chance of avoiding defeat at Anfield?
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Got every defender in here guessing
Or Lukaku is a smoke screen!
You cant compare a lion to humans
I meant: obviously 2 wingers, 1 central midfielder and 2 fullbacks as Valencia even as good as he is right now will be 32 years old in 1 month so we need to start thinking about replacing him (plus he's not exactly great in the final third).
The task isn't as simple as instructing present players to do more running and tackling, whilst staying productive. The profiles for individual positions must match the personnel.
It looks like it's an irrelevant topic anyway.
Yes, a downgrade. Staring blindly at goals scored misses the point. Zlatan's allround game is much better than Lukaku's.
Isn't Diego Costa Spanish too?
Main con for me is having to hear the words 'flat track bully' for evermore
What I mean is that under SAF we were the team with the ball, he didn't had an anti possession plan. In 2010 for example United had the highest possession rate in the league, in general we were in the top five and pretty close to the top like during his last season with 54% which is high but in the norm for a dominant team.
It's actually rare to see teams above 55%, that's reserved to the like of Barcelona and the new Bayern Munich.
Some of you are in for a surprise, since it seems you haven't really seen Lukaku play. Terribly frustrating and limited player.
"Wouldn't it be interesting for us to now go and buy ibra.. exactly the same type of player as lukaku just in my eyes more clinical... "Any other quotes?
I'd love to see the reactions when the news started to break last night.
And the one that sums it up best for them
"What a f**king mess!"
Was there any friction between Jose and Lukaku at Chelsea? I can't quite recollect any details regarding the nature of their dynamic back then.
Lukaku will be a upgrade on Zlatan as far as I'm concerned.
I have watched him plenty of times. We must have watched two different versions of Lukaku.
In what way is he an upgrade?
I was pretty pissed thinking he was going to Chelsea as he's better than Costa and would seriously improve them. Delighted that he looks set to sign for us. Really bit coup this.
Yeah he must be rubbish, any old sod can score 20 goals a season in the premier league.
They are fecking desperate. Posting an express article saying Lukaku still wants Chelsea move
I think I remember Jose being the first to text him and wish him well (according to reports) when he went to Everton. He left because he wanted to, not because Jose forced him out.
Loving the meltdown over on the Shed End forum
"We should pull the Matic rug from under them over this!"
Oh, boo hoo
Oh noes, please don't stop us signing Matic! That would be even more fantastic if we don't sign Matic.
This.
United need goals so yes, I want a United striker to put the ball in the back of the net more, so being more clinical is infact an upgrade for a striker.
Zlatans all round player may be marginally better, but Zlatan also broke down a lot of our attacks by slow play and passing the ball to opposition players countless times. Lukaku is 24 so his all round play can surely improve also.
It's not about his goal output (which is good).
The best modern strikers (at the level we should be aiming for) are players that also make the players around them better. Lukaku's isn't that type of player. He'll probably score a decent amount of goals, maybe even more than Zlatan, but that doesn't necessarily mean we'll be a better team.
Zlatan's all round play isn't marginally better, it's comfortably better in practically every regard.
Hopefully Chelsea will be pissed off and will refuse to sell us Matic now 
Say what you want about Raiola, but he's a powerful man to have on our side.
Playing Smalling upfront half won us the Europa League, so…
Exactly. We should do what we can to keep him and Mendes on our side.
Or at least a goalfriendly playmaker/secondary striker/winger.
Loving the meltdown over on the Shed End forum
"We should pull the Matic rug from under them over this!"
Oh, boo hoo
Is that supposed to be a punishment ???
Jose's revenge
Is that supposed to be a punishment ???
Because it certainly feels more like an early Christmas present.
No it's not. Zlatan's finishing is piss poor contrary to popular belief.
Lukaku is a better dribbler, has more pace and also has a better weaker foot.
Lukaku is significantly faster and probably stronger, but yep, Zlatan is pretty much better in every other aspect of the game.
Think we took it too far then with this story. There are reports on him having a medical in LA.
I'm not going to waste my time trying to justify why I think he'll do well for us.
I think he will score goals for us from the word go to be honest but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Fantastic signing.
I think he will score goals for us from the word go to be honest but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Fantastic signing.
Zlatan is overrated by a lot of people on here, he done well for us but he cost us a lot of points by not putting away easy chances that I guarantee Lukaku would have buried. He's strong, powerful and capable of getting a goal out of nothing so I'm not really sure what the problem is he's as close to a sure thing as we'll get at this stage. I would love Morata as well but let's face it he's a massive risk.
smoke screen, will turn out to be Morata doing a medical, while Lukaku keeps his wife busy.
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