He'd be a great signing IMO. Young and guarantees goals. His all around play has improved massively as well, doesn't get the credit it deserves if I'm being honest. Also would suit Mourinho perfectly I think.
Romelu Lukaku
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He's good but is he title winning/CL challenging good?
I think hed be a good signing.
Good age.
Replacing one of our worst performing (in recent years) and overpaid squad members.
He guarantees goals and can hold the ball up if that's the way we want to go. He has the potential to improve more too.
I think with a better team he'd consistently be a 20+ league goals a season striker. He's made for this league too.
Good age.
Replacing one of our worst performing (in recent years) and overpaid squad members.
He guarantees goals and can hold the ball up if that's the way we want to go. He has the potential to improve more too.
I think with a better team he'd consistently be a 20+ league goals a season striker. He's made for this league too.
Was Dwight Yorke before he signed?
Who Rooney, Lukaku, or both
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The team Yorke joined was a lot better than this one.
He's going to score more goals than the striker who wins the league. So you have to say yes. Europe we don't know.
I have some doubts but this is a big player to ignore. If we don't buy him who'll be better and available next summer?
The opportunity could be too big to turn down even with slight reservations.
Lukaku is a big, strong, powerful striker who currently tops the PL scoring charts ahead of Ibra, Kane and Aguero. He fits Joses ideal striker model and as much as i would like to see us play 2 up top it is highly likely that we will continue with the lone striker.
Even if we keep Ibra for another year then signing Lukaku makes huge sense IMO as we can rotate next season between the two. bearing in mind that even if we don't have champions league football next season we will still have Europa league so therefore the amount of games will still remain the same and another option, especially one as good as Lukaku is welcome. I think he would be a quality signing.
Even if we keep Ibra for another year then signing Lukaku makes huge sense IMO as we can rotate next season between the two. bearing in mind that even if we don't have champions league football next season we will still have Europa league so therefore the amount of games will still remain the same and another option, especially one as good as Lukaku is welcome. I think he would be a quality signing.
The rotation won't work. Neither would like to sit on the bench. Only way both of them work in the same team is if we decide to go with a two striker formation.
Would rather Belotti, but I can see why we'd be interested in Lukaku, since he's proven in the league. As others have mentioned, no way Ibra is staying if Lukaku comes in, Ibra won't accept to be a rotation option.
I'll be gutted if we sign this guy, not good enough as a footballer for what we are supposed to aspire to.
Agree with all this. Belotti looks brilliant, but there is a guarantee that Lukaku will score in England and perhaps we need the sure thing just now.
He really is not. A better version of Bony/Benteke types.
Yep, his first touch, workrate and hold up play are not nearly good enough if our goal is to get bakc to winning leagues and fighting for the CL, rather then just scraping 4th.
Out of curiosity, what striker do you think we could get in the summer who'd be better and guarantee goals in the league? Lukaku is a level behind the world's best strikers, but the world's best are already at the best clubs.
If we get Griezmann we could go for a striker that isn't as prolific but provides a good foil, like Morata, build an actual attack rather than building a 1 man strike force. Alternatively Aubameyang, Belotti and Icardi would all be my choice ahead of Lukaku.
Griezmann, Lukaku, Martial
This front three looks good.
This front three looks good.
I'd be distraught if we signed him. The first touch drills at Carrington between him and Fellaini would provide a few laughs however.
Nowhere near.
So you're of the opinion we'll be signing Griezmann and a striker? I don't see it happening myself tbh, I think we need to, but we won't. It'd cost close to 200m for those two players alone, when we have other positions on the field we need to rectify as well. Didn't Aubemyang say something about he'll only leave if Madrid or Barca come knocking? Belotti and Icardi would be my picks too, but they're not proven in the league and they'd also cost even more than Lukaku imo.
Better footballer yes. Lukaku for me is just top of the donkey tree.
If Ibrahimovic leaves we'll have to sign a #9 as well as Griezmann. so we might as well throw in a bit extra and get the better long term striker than paying at least £60M for one that will never be good enough to make us the top side we are supposed to be building towards.
He's nowhere near as limited as players like Benteke and Carroll. I'd have more problems with him fitting into the team than his ability because we play a static, wait for something to happen brand of football that would highlight his worst qualities like the first touch and hold up play.
All those things do not matter when the guy wins you games and scores that many goals. I'd rather play poorly and win like we did once than play well and draw. Sometimes, you need to bulldoze your way through.
I have my doubts about Lukaku as much as others have posted here. But if he can consistently score 20-25 league goals a season, all of those other concerns don't really matter that much.
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Good for you.
He's just a slightly fancier Bent / Benteke / Andy Carrol
He´s not good enough for the top tier clubs, don´t think he ever will be.
Poor man's Benzema.
Strange comparison, they're nothing alike. Benzema is one of the best technical strikers around with fantastic link-up play. Lukaku is far more of a pure, physical poacher.
Does Benzema still score goals lol.
by that logic, was Ibrahimovic ever "CL challenging good" given that he was pretty much always invisible in those matches and never managed to get past quarters while playing for better teams than current United?
Lukaku won't win us titles with Lingard and Rashford around him if that was your question.
At least we'd be weakening a team around us, so there's that.
He's good but quite one dimensional. He's all pace, power and shooting and lacking that bit of class that separates the best strikers from the rest. If we've run out of ideas he'd obviously do but I'd prefer a more well rounded striker.
He'd also cost a fortune and yet again we'd spend far more for a player than their worth.
Well, i have zero doubt that he actually wants to go back to Chelsea, but if they dont want him, then he needs next best thing. However, if he joined a team outside of CL after his constant "ambition" stuff, he would get fecking lynched at GoodisonThought he wants Champs league though.
For me it's simple, can we get someone like griezman or lewy.....highly unlikely, so everything else is a bit of a step-down. Don't see how you could look at those strikers in Serie A over lukaku atm. I'd prefer kane, but he is as realistic as the first two options. Lukaku is doing the business in the league, which is the first priority. I'd wager the CL would be no different as long as the team is still supplying him and not bottling a la Belgium.
I think he'll go to Chelsea as well. Costa is on his way out and I'm hearing talk of him having 'unfinished business' there like in the case of Pogba. Would suit their system more than ours IMO.
He might not be a particularly glamorous signing but I don't understand the resistance to us signing Lukaku from a few fans. Granted, he still has a number of inconsistencies in his game but what 23 year old doesn't? His record in this league is pretty amazing, all things considered. He's scored 15 or more league goals in all but 1 of his 5 seasons as a starter in the Premier League.
I find it bizarre some are turning their nose up at a proven PL scorer given how we have struggled to break down some of the league's lesser teams the past season or two.
Yes it's questionable as to how good Lukaku can be at the very top level but he's guaranteed goals in the other 25+ league games that season.
When you look at him as a replacement for Rooney then it's hardly bad business.
Yes it's questionable as to how good Lukaku can be at the very top level but he's guaranteed goals in the other 25+ league games that season.
When you look at him as a replacement for Rooney then it's hardly bad business.