Not a Harry Kane vs Lukaku thread. Anyone wants to debate it, do it a different thread.
Romelu Lukaku | United confirm deal subject to medical and personal terms
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For a £100 million pound deal he's not technically good enough for that sort of money and in theory is like a heskey that scores goals .
I wasn't thrilled when I heard we had signed him but if you look at last seasons problems , it was killing the average teams off and we were drawing to many games against the so called lesser teams .
Lukaku has been labelled as "just scoring against the lesser teams " a tag that I have labelled him myself on here in previous posts.
Maybe , thinking about it he's exactly what we need right now to eradicate last years failings .
His record virtually gaurentees 25 goals a season and his goal scoring record for Everton against the big 6 last season maybe tells a story of tactics more than anything .
Everton surely would sit deeper against the big teams and lukaku would be be more detached , starving him of chances.
I hope he does well and I'm still convinced greizmann will follow once athleticos ban as been lifted .
I wasn't thrilled when I heard we had signed him but if you look at last seasons problems , it was killing the average teams off and we were drawing to many games against the so called lesser teams .
Lukaku has been labelled as "just scoring against the lesser teams " a tag that I have labelled him myself on here in previous posts.
Maybe , thinking about it he's exactly what we need right now to eradicate last years failings .
His record virtually gaurentees 25 goals a season and his goal scoring record for Everton against the big 6 last season maybe tells a story of tactics more than anything .
Everton surely would sit deeper against the big teams and lukaku would be be more detached , starving him of chances.
I hope he does well and I'm still convinced greizmann will follow once athleticos ban as been lifted .
Pssst! If it's not a statistic that makes Kane look better, its not relevant to him.
Can't reason with stupid I'm afraid.
right, so mystic meg stuff then?i'd hazard a guess that "3+3=8 if you're smart enough" reasoning is how most tabloids write their columns
anyway this isn't even amusing anymore. maybe you're right and we'll sell him to psg.
Equally as pointless as talking to a wall. Move on and have a nice day.
Kane is better than Lukaku
If Kane was in the market now, he'd probably cost £125m upfront minimum. Maybe more, considering it's Levy.
Is this even a discussion? Shame every thread has to become about GlastonSpur, even when he's right
If Kane was in the market now, he'd probably cost £125m upfront minimum. Maybe more, considering it's Levy.
Is this even a discussion? Shame every thread has to become about GlastonSpur, even when he's right
Spurs fans care. That's Spurs who's last 3 signings were Sissoko, Janssen and N'Koudou for a total of £58m. They once got Delle Alli cheap though don't forget.who cares really though?
The fee could be 100m and I wouldn't care, the only fans that tend to give a shit and cite fees all the time are the jealous ones that know their club can't compete in this market.
Doesn't Kane take a lot of penalties? Again, plays with better players too. Let's check that stat at the end of the coming season.
To be fair, one can make a way longer compilation of such touches taken by the prime Wayne Rooney. But at the end of the day what actually counted was Rooney's bullish nature and knack of scoring goals. It was when Wayne stopped scoring and assisting that we all started observing and bashing his first touch and fitness.
Not saying that Lukaku looks like he will play on a level same as prime Wayne but I am not too fussed about that said compilation of his poor first touches as long as the compilation of the goals he has scored in past few years is way more impressive (second highest in league in last five years?)
You think so? I am not sure at all.
I'm beginning to think this is a lemon orchard with the amount of bitterness going on.
No on both counts.
I see it this way - there are very few world class no.9 out there and none of them is avaiable.
Belotti, Lukaku, Morata are all very good strikers but a tier below.
Belotti and Morats might be better than Lukaku but they are both a bigger gamble. Moving from Madrid's bench or Italian league to Manchester United and playing in the EPL is a huge ask. IMHO Lukako will hit the ground running
Belotti, Lukaku, Morata are all very good strikers but a tier below.
Belotti and Morats might be better than Lukaku but they are both a bigger gamble. Moving from Madrid's bench or Italian league to Manchester United and playing in the EPL is a huge ask. IMHO Lukako will hit the ground running
If that was the fee don't you think the melodramatic sports media would be raving about a new world record fee?
Anyway, who represents Hazard? Let's really stick the boot into Chelsea.
Why can't you just be happy for us for once Glaston? 
You're like that one friend that always shits on your accomplishments, even though he has no right to
You're like that one friend that always shits on your accomplishments, even though he has no right toHopefully we get that winger and midfielder sorted very soon!
For you @GlastonSpur
GlastonSpur is trying too hard. Is he Woodward's accountant or something?
Wow ... that was quick. They announced him before they even completed the medical and personal terms.
What ! 75 plus 15 add ons plus Rooney ?? Mmm I make that around 100 million ??
the heskey quote was a bit tongue in cheek I will give you that
For weeks we thought Morata was the priority. Hope same happens with Perisic and Matic.
Lemar and Fabinho please!
I'm reasonably happy with this transfer, however we still need to assemble the supporting cast for Lukaku with emphasis on wingers. Martial, Rashford, Mata and Miky in last season's form aren't good enough to make us title challengers.
Exactly the games we didn't win last season...
75 + 15 = 90. An iffy 90m at that given that 15m might not get paid. Even Glaston didn't stretch that to a £100m deal ffs. Might as well call it a £65m deal.
Rooney isn't part of the Lukaku deal.
If you want to play it that way remove the £30mil we were going to pay Rooney in wages and say he cost £70mil. You can't just make up a fee for a player we have let go on a free.
It's already been stated by everyone and his mum that the two deals are separate.
Leave him be, that's his favorite theme. Along with Spurs being above United in 3 seasons out of 4.
Ha brilliant
Be interesting if Chelsea pivot and make a mega bid for Kane.
Hilarious that someone from Europe (presumably) is mocking the United States police force
Jesus the fee is £75 million. It's not £90m, not £100m, not £150 million.
I think Spurs would quote any potential buyers well in excess of £100M, using the Lukaku fee as a yardstick, plus I think they would do all in their power to stop him leaving for another PL club.
They can only have him in their dream.
They'll move for Morata. The rest is up to Madrid willing to sell him or not.
I'm a big fan of this signing. Looking forward to seeing him on the tour!
Despite the cheeky nature, the point is completely correct. You can't look at the numbers involved as they're simply arbitrary at this point. What you need to look at is the transfer fee as a percentage of our turnover. Looking at it that way us spending 60 - 90m on a player is the same percentage as, for example Palace spending 32m on Benteke. The value is irrelevant, it's the percentage that counts to these businesses.
Dear Liverpool/Spurs fans
When you try to mock us for spending vast sums of money, you aren't hurting us, and you're not winning the moral high ground trophy that only exists in your heads.
We're rich as feck and we love it. We'll spend another £100m on a player next summer and it'll be brilliant.
Thanks.
Fans of Manchester United
P.S We're filthy rich, it's great.
When you try to mock us for spending vast sums of money, you aren't hurting us, and you're not winning the moral high ground trophy that only exists in your heads.
We're rich as feck and we love it. We'll spend another £100m on a player next summer and it'll be brilliant.
Thanks.
Fans of Manchester United
P.S We're filthy rich, it's great.
If he guarantees 25 goals per-season for the next six or seven years then he's definitely worth £100m in today's money.
Jose's job is now to complete the rest of the team and getting it operating as a unit, to the best of its ability.
This is only the beginning!
Jose's job is now to complete the rest of the team and getting it operating as a unit, to the best of its ability.
This is only the beginning!
Yep this. The chances we had to put the ball in behind is an option we didn't have with Zlatan, we will now have that with Lukaku and Rashford off the bench.
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