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%
  • Total voters
    2,214
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SilentWitness said:
Benteke was also at a rubbish team and wasn't bought for 30m by Villa.
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You bought Fellaini for £16m and sold him 3 years later for £27m, £23m had Moyes not fecked it up. There's a market value for every player and Raiola won't give a Feck about protecting your interests. They will raise hell to get out of there and Everton is in no position to refuse £40m on a wantaway player, TV deal or not.
MDFC Manager said:
It's Everton, they will fleeced every penny out of the buying club, or won't sell
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I don't think they are as unreasonable as Spurs/Levy. They could manage to hold on to Stones because he's young and English, which always guarantee good money. Lukaku's value will plummet fast if he pulls a strop and sit out for half a season.
 
InfiniteBoredom said:
You bought Fellaini for £16m and sold him 3 years later for £27m, £23m had Moyes not fecked it up. There's a market value for every player and Raiola won't give a Feck about protecting your interests. They will raise hell to get out of there and Everton is in no position to refuse £40m on a wantaway player, TV deal or not.
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Raiola won't but Martinez and Kenwright will. We are, we could easily hold out for a bit more than 40m, especially if there is a bidding war which is likely. FWIW i think that the minimum flat fee would be 40m with add-ons.
 
SilentWitness said:
Raiola won't but Martinez and Kenwright will. We are, we could easily hold out for a bit more than 40m, especially if there is a bidding war which is likely. FWIW i think that the minimum flat fee would be 40m with add-ons.
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We'll see. I see a lot of similarities between Lukaku and Adebayor regarding their career trajectory to date. If he's fully professional, keep improving his all round game while scoring then 1-2 years down the line he could be chased by 2-3 clubs which will boost his transfer fees like you said. However, it's more likely Raiola nudges him to go for the quick buck once an opportunity presents itself and you are caught between a rock and a hard place.
 
I can't see them settling for less than 50m tbh. At which point we should be looking elsewhere
 
Should have intercepted his move to Everton . Can't see this happening.
 
Telegraph haven't linked us with him, it's in their gossip section. May as well put the BBC in the thread title as well if we are counting appearing in the gossip section as the views of the source itself.
 
I think he's a great player, but when we start talking about spending 50m, I'd rather we spent that on Harry Kane who I think is better than Lukaku.

Kane or Lukaku would be the perfect foil for Martial to play off of though.
 
InfiniteBoredom said:
If we can't land the absolute best, I'd rather we go for Higuain rather than Lukaku. A few years of good service before Martial is ready. Lukaku is too similar in build and the amount of football he has to Rooney for my comfort, without ever - to this date- being as good as the latter.
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Please No. Not Higuain.

The ultimate choker .
 
K2K said:
Please No. Not Higuain.

The ultimate choker .
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Not rating him either but the guy is good against cannon fodder. We need that kind of striker to compete in the league.

You need Neymar or Messi or Muller to win the CL. PL? Not so much. We'd be 5-8 points clear at the top if we have anyone remotely competent up front.
 
InfiniteBoredom said:
Not rating him either but the guy is good against cannon fodder. We need that kind of striker to compete in the league.

You need Neymar or Messi or Muller to win the CL. PL? Not so much. We'd be 5-8 points clear at the top if we have anyone remotely competent up front.
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or a Chicharito.

he's 28 though and Napoli would ask for ridiculous money.
 
InfiniteBoredom said:
Not rating him either but the guy is good against cannon fodder. We need that kind of striker to compete in the league.

You need Neymar or Messi or Muller to win the CL. PL? Not so much. We'd be 5-8 points clear at the top if we have anyone remotely competent up front.
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when you say this, are you trying to say Martial isn't remotely competent?
 
Sandikan said:
when you say this, are you trying to say Martial isn't remotely competent?
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No, but he's young and not a goalscorer yet.

It's big ask telling him to get us 20 goals a season, whilst he is developing.
 
K2K said:
Please No. Not Higuain.

The ultimate choker .
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Since they moved him off the wing and to a more central role (from 08/09 onwards) he scored 97 goals in 146 la liga games for real
Since he went to Napoli he has scored 49 in 84 in seria a
his 25 in 52 for Argentina is pretty impressive as well

I'd be very happy to see him arrive at Old Trafford in Jan - cant see it happening as Napoli are having such a good year in the league (aided of course by his 14 in 15 games!)

Given his pace and his fluidity over a front three I personally think an attack of

Depay....Higauin....Martial

With either Rooney, Mata or Herrera behind them would be pretty good.

Even Bagio missed an important penalty - it would hardly be a reason not to sign him.
 
sun_tzu said:
Since they moved him off the wing and to a more central role (from 08/09 onwards) he scored 97 goals in 146 la liga games for real
Since he went to Napoli he has scored 49 in 84 in seria a
his 25 in 52 for Argentina is pretty impressive as well

I'd be very happy to see him arrive at Old Trafford in Jan - cant see it happening as Napoli are having such a good year in the league (aided of course by his 14 in 15 games!)

Given his pace and his fluidity over a front three I personally think an attack of

Depay....Higauin....Martial

With either Rooney, Mata or Herrera behind them would be pretty good.

Even Bagio missed an important penalty - it would hardly be a reason not to sign him.
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Poor Baggio missed just 1 penalty.

In the last 18 months.
- guilt edged miss in the world cup final
- penalty miss costing Napoli champions league football.
- another guilt edged miss in the copa america in normal time, then missing a penalty too for good measure.

he's like Spurs. A choker, but not by choice.
 
sun_tzu said:
Since they moved him off the wing and to a more central role (from 08/09 onwards) he scored 97 goals in 146 la liga games for real
Since he went to Napoli he has scored 49 in 84 in seria a
his 25 in 52 for Argentina is pretty impressive as well

I'd be very happy to see him arrive at Old Trafford in Jan - cant see it happening as Napoli are having such a good year in the league (aided of course by his 14 in 15 games!)

Given his pace and his fluidity over a front three I personally think an attack of

Depay....Higauin....Martial

With either Rooney, Mata or Herrera behind them would be pretty good.

Even Bagio missed an important penalty - it would hardly be a reason not to sign him.
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Really? I'm massively with @K2K on this.
 
K2K said:
Poor Baggio missed just 1 penalty.

In the last 18 months.
- guilt edged miss in the world cup final
- penalty miss costing Napoli champions league football.
- another guilt edged miss in the copa america in normal time, then missing a penalty too for good measure.

he's like Spurs. A choker, but not by choice.
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if he could replicate his 2 goals per 3 league games ration he has over the last 8 seasons them you know what I'll take him missing a few chances as well
for comparison (league goals per game since 2008/9 - i.e. when he started to play as a striker for real)

Suarez 98 in 150 (0.65) *pl and la liga... but 152 in 227 including dutch league (0.67)
Higauin 146 / 230 (0.62)
lewondowski 124 in 205 (0.60)
aguero 134/229 (0.58)
Rooney 119 in 225 (0.53)
Kane 32 in 61 (0.52) *premier league only - lower if you include championship loans
Lukaku 37 in 83 (.45)

so yeah I'd take a punt
 
Isn't Griezmann release clause also around 50 million quid.. We won't get get Lukaku for any less,so might as well go for Griezmann..
 
sun_tzu said:
if he could replicate his 2 goals per 3 league games ration he has over the last 8 seasons them you know what I'll take him missing a few chances as well
for comparison (league goals per game since 2008/9 - i.e. when he started to play as a striker for real)

Suarez 98 in 150 (0.65) *pl and la liga... but 152 in 227 including dutch league (0.67)
Higauin 146 / 230 (0.62)
lewondowski 124 in 205 (0.60)
aguero 134/229 (0.58)
Rooney 119 in 225 (0.53)
Kane 32 in 61 (0.52) *premier league only - lower if you include championship loans
Lukaku 37 in 83 (.45)

so yeah I'd take a punt
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I don't know why Higuain isn't looked at more seriously. He's got a brilliant goalscoring record. I think there were some questions about his mentality, but I don't how valid they were/are.

He's a 'proper' striker.
 
TooBias said:
I don't know why Higuain isn't looked at more seriously. He's got a brilliant goalscoring record. I think there were some questions about his mentality, but I don't how valid they were/are.

He's a 'proper' striker.
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Because the most recent memories people have of Higuain is costing Argentina the World Cup and Copa America by missing easy chances.
 
TooBias said:
I don't know why Higuain isn't looked at more seriously. He's got a brilliant goalscoring record. I think there were some questions about his mentality, but I don't how valid they were/are.

He's a 'proper' striker.
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Having an excellent season goalscoring wise for Napoli this year as well. Would be a decent option to look at. Only 28 too.
 
Cheesy said:
Having an excellent season goalscoring wise for Napoli this year as well. Would be a decent option to look at. Only 28 too.
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Yeah. Just watched his first 50 goals for Napoli. I know it's only Youtube but he looks to be exactly what we need.

Mature, experienced striker hitting his prime. Perfect player to bring in while Martial develops.

25 in 52 for Argentina, too. Forget Lukaku. Higuain! Higuain!
 
I'd really like Lukaku - quick, strong, good hold-up play, good finisher, good in the air - he's pretty much the complete striker if you're going to play a lone striker in any variant of a 4-5-1
 
I wanted him in the summer already when he could've been cheaper. I remember plenty of people being against signing him then.
 
*tin hat time* I'm still not at all convinced he's a top level forward for the level we're aspiring to be at, so I think there's better out there BUT he'd definitely improve us massively and when all's said and done that'd be a decent move.
 
Brophs said:
*tin hat time* I'm still not at all convinced he's a top level forward for the level we're aspiring to be at, so I think there's better out there BUT he'd definitely improve us massively and when all's said and done that'd be a decent move.
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Fair point, and I agree that he's not the finished article, but he's only 22 so still time to improve. The only other players to score 50 Premier League goals before they were 23 are Fowler, Owen, Rooney, and Ronaldo so he's in good company.
 
I like Lukaku a lot, but if we are spending 40m or 50m+ on signing a forward I would much rather us go for Griezmann's release clause.
 
Brophs said:
*tin hat time* I'm still not at all convinced he's a top level forward for the level we're aspiring to be at, so I think there's better out there BUT he'd definitely improve us massively and when all's said and done that'd be a decent move.
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There probably is, but there's a real lack of quality that's available, and that's the problem at the moment. Its not like there's an abundance of top class available attackers available so clubs like us who are in desperate need of a forward are going to have to look to the next level. I'd say Lukaku falls into that bracket, but with the added bonus of being only 22 and premier league proven.
His technical ability isn't up there with the strikers at the other big boys, but is that actually a massive problem if he's banging the goals in every week?
 
He's not moving in January no matter what we throw at them. Martinez and Everton can be very stubborn.
 
sun_tzu said:
Since they moved him off the wing and to a more central role (from 08/09 onwards) he scored 97 goals in 146 la liga games for real
Since he went to Napoli he has scored 49 in 84 in seria a
his 25 in 52 for Argentina is pretty impressive as well

I'd be very happy to see him arrive at Old Trafford in Jan - cant see it happening as Napoli are having such a good year in the league (aided of course by his 14 in 15 games!)

Given his pace and his fluidity over a front three I personally think an attack of

Depay....Higauin....Martial

With either Rooney, Mata or Herrera behind them would be pretty good.

Even Bagio missed an important penalty - it would hardly be a reason not to sign him.
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I would take Callejon to, Although I bet the hipsters wouldn't like that.
 
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