Saha is ridiculously overrated on this forum. He was never a one goal in two games striker much less one of the best in the world.
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You know you word things in an antagonistic way, don't you? It's why everybody finds you so irritating. Most of the other opposition supporters seem to be able to maintain sensible discussion.
Maybe he would have had you not had the pointless dig at Utd afterwards.
Shithouse and donkey are far too harsh. He is a proper carthorse though.
Overall no, but for a period at United before his injuries and towards the end of Ruuds time, he was.
He really wasn't. He was incredibly inconsistent and a pretty poor finisher.
2nd half of 2005/06 there is no doubt he was class. One of the best forwards going. Better then Lukaku has ever been.
you must be thinking of someone else
It wasn't a pointless dig ... because it had a point, namely that, if Lukaku is ruled out, which other striker besides Benteke are you realistically going to sign? And if you did sign Benteke isn't it reasonable to assume, especially with Fellaini in the team, that you'd play an arial, long-ball game?
Of course it was. If and it's a bloody big if, we signed Benteke he'd still struggle to keep Rooney out of the team. What if Spurs signed him? I seem to recall you quite fancying the idea when Spurs were linked. A player improves by at least 20% when that happens though.
I'm really not. Which is why he didn't score a lot of goals.
His best season for United. He scored 15 goals. 2 the season before. Van Nistelrooy scored 24 the season Saha 'overshadowed' him.
Get out of here with your facts.
You cannot be thinking of Louis Saha, just can't.
Get out.
It's normal recency bias. He had a bad domestic season (lethal in the Europe League, so overall he scored 18 in 37 starts which is solid) so people are slagging him off.
He'll probably regress to his mean next year, Everton will be a bit better at creating changes and this time, in 32 starts, he'll score 17-18 goals or even hit 20 which you would expect after his impressive amount of goals per minute numbers his first 2 Prem seasons.
He gives the ball away a lot, but he's a goal threat, for sure.
During 05/06 and 06/07 he scored 28 goals in 45 starts and 19 off the bench. He easily had a goal per 180 minutes.
This whole rumour started from this thread, right?
Obliviously he's not good enough but even if he was deemed to be, Everton just paid nearly £30M for him, they'd want at least £45M to sell him after one season.
Obliviously he's not good enough but even if he was deemed to be, Everton just paid nearly £30M for him, they'd want at least £45M to sell him after one season.
Utd way etc etc etc
Or so a lot of people think...(Not on here, in person and social media)
For what it's worth, he's a Spurs signing....
It ain't happening
How does that work? Does that mean we can get £90m for di Maria?
No because we are a top club, to get more money he'd have to excel. In the case of a club like Everton they simply can't afford to sell their record signing at a loss after one season.
Fair enough but that doesn't tack on 50% to his value. If anything, I think they'd jump at getting back what they paid , assuming he makes a big deal about wanting out. But who knows, we're probably just seeing links to any and everyone thrown out now.
A club like Everton is always looking to make a profit, if they were that desperate to just recoup their money then it would mean he wasn't performing very well at the level they require, let alone what United require.
You're wumming as usual so I'm wumming back.
A United team with a former Aston Villa striker upfront had won more in the first year than Spurs did in the past 30 years.
There are only 3 realistic strikers available ?
Well atleast it won't ever can't get as bad as Adebayor and Soldado...
You tell me ... or even better list the ones who are
hehe I can just see Glaston in the corner in his rocking chair with his hands wrapped around his knees, legs against his chest nervously singing 'He's one of our own'.
Why do people give Glaston the time of day? Must be the summer months since he's back, he'll post a bit less a month into the season, disappear around Christmas until next summer when he can WUM again. It's his boom bust cycle.
On the top of my head
Lacazette, Jackson Martinez and Higuain
Icardi and Cavani also jump to mind
I really don't get Spurs fans, it's not only that Glaston fella. They know that they are gonna lose Kane in the next few years, their best players always want to leave after a few years and still they act like they are dead sure to be next force in world football.
No to Lukaku, nothing against him but buying from English clubs is madness with these exchange rates. Lukaku would probably cost £35m, which would be 50m€ ... That should get you even Lacazette!
No to Lukaku, nothing against him but buying from English clubs is madness with these exchange rates. Lukaku would probably cost £35m, which would be 50m€ ... That should get you even Lacazette!
I'm not sure anyone takes the lad seriouslyeven himself.
I think most Tottenham (and Liverpool) fans would admit we are on a different level from them; but folks like Glaston remind me of those Japanese soldiers who continued fighting World War II a full 29 years after the Japanese surrendered because they didn't know the war was over.
My point is that if he was 27 no one would be talking about him! Hence he is age isn't easily forgotten, in fact it's the only reason this thread exists! Every time Lukaku is discussed someone comes along and says something along the likes of "it's easy to forget how young he is," when it most definitely isn't, as it's his defining characteristic.
There's at least 4 Everton players who'd improve our squad more than him, imo.
Does anyone seriously want Lukaku? Please no
You seem to think I'm literally implying that people don't know how old he is. My point is he has lots and lots of time to develop which people aren't accounting for, because he feels like he's been around forever - its the same with Phil Jones. He broke through at such a young age that it feels like he should be much better than he is by now, when in reality there are very few strikers of his age at his level. He's done a lot more than flavour of the month Harry Kane. Why should his age be discounted anyway? Thats like saying if Reuben Loftus-Cheek was 34 no one would be talking about him either.
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