Good point. Drogba was about 26 when Jose bought him from ligue 1. He had not exactly set the world on fire at that age. His first season at Chelsea was also average. It took him some time to explode. I have a feeling Lukaku will become a beast at United. His combo with Jose makes for an interesting story line. The rejected stone becoming the cornerstone.
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Good point. Drogba was about 26 when Jose bought him from ligue 1. He had not exactly set the world on fire at that age. His first season at Chelsea was also average. It took him some time to explode. I have a feeling Lukaku will become a beast at United. His combo with Jose makes for an interesting story line. The rejected stone becoming the cornerstone.
Point is i really like this mantra. Whenever i ask for profit calculations of my deal proposals the finance people do magic with cost allocations so deals become negative or postive as they wish. The only indicator that is sacres is marginal income.
Especially given he played for both the clubs
That's not how industry-specific inflation works. The global economy doesn't have much to do with it. The money in football nowadays is there because the demand is there. More fans want to watch more football and the suppliers value that at very large amounts of money. As long as that continues then you'll see much more of this happen at a faster rate.
Especially since it was double our previous record at the time. And when we signed Yorke for £13m it was only 4 shy of the then current World Record fee. But we were less spoiled back then by the lure and ubiquitous YouTube videos of glamorous flashy foreign options, so the idea of smashing the British record for a player with one good season for newly promoted Newcastle under his belt, or an Aston Villa player who'd never scored 20 league goals in a season was less of an issue to whine about.
To the hills!
I have been watching since 1987 and I can't think of one main #9 we've had that was so limited, you could argue Cole maybe but not McLair, Hughes, Saha, Ruud, Tevez, Berbatov, RvP or Ibra, but the rest of your post is the most reasonable response I've read all day, appreciate it.
I would argue with that list but if we are only sticking to forwards strikers/ not other players who were limited like Bebe, Dejamba etc.. Off the top of my head:
David Bellion
Dion Dublin
Forlan (Was good elsewhere but utter gash for us)
Biram Diouf
Bebe
Dong Fangzhuo
THere are many more as well. No way in hell he is not far better than them.
Have to be honest. Enjoyed poking fun at this clumsy oaf and will need to get used to backing him and hoping he bangs them in. I don't really expect Jose to play free flowing beauiful football so that's not a concern.
Well you're talking to someone who used to turn up on the day and pay £2 to watch United. No one was priced out from watching their team.
Sorry your passion seems a bit thin if you are going to quit because of Lukaku. That's more a throwing the toys out of the pram response, than being a passionate supporter.
Jesus, can you imagine the "we've signed Andy Cole" thread if today's caf was running back then?
As long as fans are willing to pay for the tickets and tv packages, prices will increase. It's the nature of the beast.
So who bangs in more goals in 2017/2018 Lacazette, Lukaku, Sandro and whoever Chelsea buys lol
Aye, I think he's just after another Zlatan type of player - i.e. one who feeds most of the goals and chances to be fed entirely to him, rather than a fluid attack that has them more evenly divided.
I was talking about players that were the main starting #9 and integral part of the team, not players that barely made a dozen appearences. Lukaku has to be compared with our main #9's as that is his role, not a guy who'll make the odd game in a cup. Off that list Forlan is the only one that was close to playing regularly for us and even then he was more of a sub.
You're entitled to your opinion.
Chicharito.
Kinda want to look back at the Fellaini signing thread. I wasn't around here then, was it a deadly cauldron of hate and hair?
I think if Lukaku scores 15 to 20 that will be a success for us and him. Like Andy Cole I can see him having to adapt his game to suit the team and that could take time .
I'm happy with this deal the guy is proven and I sense he has the drive to keep improving his game which can only be good for us
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Anything less than 25 and the critics will be out in full force.
He will need to change his game quite a lot to suit Jose in terms of running the channels and not losing the ball as often. It's not like he has the aggression of Costa or the all round game of drogs. Whatever Jose wants should be our philosophy right now mind I just think when someone like this lad isn't scoring he'll get a shed load of criticism from fans for other elements of his game which we kinda look for whereas his previous clubs were happy to let slip. I'd never have thought he was Jose top 2 number 9 picks.
If we don't get another goal scorer then that tally will get us nowhere. There will need to be 4 or 5 others in double figures and that isn't going to happen, or he will not be our top goalscorer, someone else will be. I would want 15-20 from a support striker and over 20 from my main striker.
We need to get this over the line. We can't have a situation where Lukaku joins Chelsea. We staked too much on this happening, we can't have it fail. Real Madrid are probably a bit mad and Morata who was probably planning on starting his season in Manchester United colors suddenly got that taken away from him.
The Thing is, could we equate Lukaku to Hughes and Stapleton back in the day?
With Pogba settling in after his first season, I think Lukaku will benefit greatly from that, I am more interested to see what Jose is intending to do tactically. But 15 should be easy for him, 20 par and 25+ brilliant for Man Utd
Sure he scored 42 goals without taking pens, but he does nothing in the build up. Plus the majority were against the likes of Swindon and Oldham. Pace merchant/flat track bully really, he's nothing without Beardsley, etc etc.
yeah is right. One thing about his goal record though, he didn't take the penos at Everton, does anyone know if he hits free kicks
Yeah he scored one last year.
Remember the cup semi final last year?
Cole was a goal scoring beast for Newcastle.
Or signing Villa's best striker when we missed out on Kluivert.
He took 8 penalties for Everton. Scored 6.
In all competitions, of course and justifiably so - it'll be one of, if not the biggest transfer of all time and in a league he doesn't need to adjust to. So if he isn't hitting them highs, he will be questioned - especially as he's not really going to provide much else.
The York signing surprised me back in 98, I thought he was punching above his weight, but proved me wrong. Hope Lukaku does as well.
Oh feck yeah! I'd forgotten we were in for Kluivert that summer. Toys would've been well and truly thrown.
Pogs isn't the record breaker.
Barcelona cooked the books and got punished later on for not revealing the true details of that transfer deal.
What Pogba tweet?
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