Romelu Lukaku

[bababoom 4,478]

Never gonna happen (unfortunately). Mourinho wants to spend big. Diego Costa for sure. He's never been interested in giving high potentials a chance to grow. He even wanted to sell Hazard in the beginning, that tells you everything.

He never wanted to sell Hazard... stop talking bollocks.

[ParNolio7 285]

Are you sure.

yes, that's a well known fact, he actively searched for teams to take him over but changed his mind in training

[Weckerz 3,781]

yes, that's a well known fact, he actively searched for teams to take him over but changed his mind in training

Screenshot or it didn't happen

[The only place to be 11,313]

Are you sure?If Costa gets injured we are back to Torres or whoever would be the 2nd choice so I doubt we would be in a stronger.The other thing is he is a young,immature 20 year old boy who made a mistake,it happens to everybody hell Jose himself made the biggest mistake by believing in Torres and also wasting our entire window on Rooney so the point is everyone make's a mistake at some point of his life especially a 20 year old.That does not mean he should be sold right away.In an ideal world our strikeforce next season would be Costa,Lukaku and Eto'o.

Or Costa, Mandzukic and Bamford (although I suspect Bamford is going out on loan again)?

I'd be happy to see Costa and Lukaku as our two strikers next season but I think Lukaku has burnt too many bridges.

yes, that's a well known fact, he actively searched for teams to take him over but changed his mind in training

Sounds like utter bollocks but if you can provide a reputable source for this 'well-known fact' then I'll accept that it must be true.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Or Costa, Mandzukic and Bamford (although I suspect Bamford is going out on loan again)?

I'd be happy to see Costa and Lukaku as our two strikers next season but I think Lukaku has burnt too many bridges.

Bamford will most probably go out on loan again and iirc Bayern recently said that Mandzukic will stay at Bayern.The thing is we have got an awesome talent who can contribute next season so why go after another striker?Costa and Lukaku would be an fantastic strikeforce imo

[DH1988 1,194]

Too much talk, come back to Chelsea either get your head down or do one.

[Weckerz 3,781]

Too much talk, come back to Chelsea either get your head down or do one.

Is he talking? Fans are discussing him because of his performance yesterday.

He isn't even allowed by Everton to talk to the press. So much bullshit being posted in this thread it's ridiculous.

[Tomo 21,681]

Haha, that's all Jose ever does actually.

Yes that is why Ashley Cole lost his place to Cesar Azpilicueta.

Or are you basing it on the fact KDB couldn't dislodge Schurrle? a player a massive half a year his senior.

[BloodIsBlue 291]

I could see Bamford coming into the first team but I would suspect Mourinho's motives would not bee good for his career, he needs home growns.

[Tomo 21,681]

Ba hasn't been trusted even remotely by Jose from day 1 and his back is now clearly broken regarding Torres.

If Lukaku stuck around to fight for his place, he would more than likely be rotating with Eto'o at a club challenging for top honours, while learning lots from Samuel himself, all at the age off 20.

His loss.

[Weckerz 3,781]

Ba hasn't been trusted even remotely by Jose from day 1 and his back is now clearly broken regarding Torres.

If Lukaku stuck around to fight for his place, he would more than likely be rotating with Eto'o at a club challenging for top honours, while learning lots from Samuel himself, all at the age off 20.

His loss.

No, our loss, there's a very high chance we'd be top of the league right now.

[yuvala 2,167]

I could see Bamford coming into the first team but I would suspect Mourinho's motives would not bee good for his career, he needs home growns.

I really cant see it hapenning TBH ..

[Sidzeret 2,257]

a 20 year old should never ever sit on a bench, nowhere, this is a general rule and a very simple one in real life football. As a 20 year old, you need to play games, not serve as a back up, if you would be sitting on a bench at that age(wich is normal in a top team like chelsea), you need to go play at a team that is playing at a lower lvl, and that's exactly what this loan is good for.

and whiny bitch, dude please...

Like I said, No.1 priority is not Lukaku's development but the betterment of the club, I'm sure Lukaku as our back-up striker is in the club's best interest.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

yes, that's a well known fact, he actively searched for teams to take him over but changed his mind in training

1) Your definition for "well known fact" is completely different to mine. I'm a Chelsea fan who spends on average about 2-3 hours daily reading Chelsea related stuff and I have never came across anything even implying that Jose ever wanted to sell Eden and judging by the reaction of everyone else here, neither have they.

2) If such an info had been mentioned by anyone even remotely reliable or in any popular Belgian media source, there is a 99.9% chance that it would have made it to all the papers in the UK because news like that sells...a lot!

3) If it isn't an inside source leaking this news, because if it were then we would have heard of it before, then how in the world would you know such a thing?

I get it that Jose is not very popular with some in Belgium because of the whole KDB debacle, but this propaganda of "news" about him is beyond silly.

[bouletje 82]

Like I said, No.1 priority is not Lukaku's development but the betterment of the club, I'm sure Lukaku as our back-up striker is in the club's best interest.

and as i said before, in the long run his development IS for the betterment of the club. Kid won't be growing and learning by sitting on a bench.

Our club can't and shouldn't rely on a 20 year old kid, to come off the bench and take care of it all, after all we are not man-united.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

and as i said before, in the long run his development IS for the betterment of the club. Kid won't be growing and learning by sitting on a bench.

Our club can't and shouldn't rely on a 20 year old kid, to come off the bench and take care of it all, after all we are not man-united.

What is that supposed to mean???

[bouletje 82]

What is that supposed to mean???

quite simple we should bring in a world class striker and hopefully we manage to keep eto'o as a second choice after all he's now our first forward and it's not that he's total rubbish for us so far as torres has been.

Lukaku might play champions league next year if we loan him out to everton again, let that team take the so called risk and test him on a top european level.

In the long run i can see this becoming a great investment, and my point stays the same, let the kid grow somewhere without the pressure of "we MUST end in the top 3" and we as fans might or might not love him in a few years.

[kellzfresh 7,226]

I think we should keep lukaku. Having watched a lot of his games, he has everything possible to become world class and his only weakness is inconsistent touch, but which striker doesn't have weakness these days?

He is already a top goal scorer and will only fit us since he is physical enough to get defenders off his back by himself.

We should bring him back next season even though he is the second striker. Jose should motivate him to have a fair chance of becoming number one ahead of any striker we buy this summer.