Romelu Lukaku

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1 minute ago, Despiadado.Maleante said:

Very underwhelming if true, especially for that price. Every game he doesn't score will be a moan fest. It's a downgrade from Costa but the lack of forwards available makes it understandable. The only thing he has going for him is his age. He will improve.

Is it a downgrade, though? More like a sideways move for me. Neither are great with the ball and both sometimes have trouble in tight areas when closed down. 

I think Diego's biggest positive for us is that he's clutch. Seems to frequently pop up at the right time with a very incisive goal. Lukaku is stronger, bigger, and much better in the air. Plus, and perhaps most importantly, he's never a liability with his temperament. Never gets injured and isn't a controversial person publicly. 

Like you say, there aren't really other options that would be any cheaper and even if we spent £80m or more on someone like Belotti you'd have to pray that he's the real deal and can cut it in a new country, much tougher league, and deal with all the pressure of being a mega expensive player. With Rom we know precisely what we're getting. He knows exactly how to play in the PL.

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Romelu Lukaku's Premier League season 

Games played 37

Goals scored 25

Assists 6

 

[The Skipper 20,609]

Lukaku's gonna be a hit. Calling it here first. I can't tell you how much the system at CFC fits him. He's going to score loads. 

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Again with the conspiracy theories. I need someone to prove to me how they know Conte isn't the one after Lukaku. Concrete facts. 

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6 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

Again with the conspiracy theories. I need someone to prove to me how they know Conte isn't the one after Lukaku. Concrete facts. 

Just look at the other threads mate. There has been a full-blown panic ever since Silva went to Man C. Suddenly you need to wrap up your transfers in May or otherwise be considered incompetent. 

Personally I think Lukaku is a reliable goal scorer with room to improve. He might not be the player that brings Chelsea up a level straight away, but we would not become weaker with him in the squad. If he joins alongside Baka/Tolisso in CM, a decent purchase in RWB and some width in the AM I would be happy. If we would also get Van Dijk that would be an awesome transfer window.  

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14 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

Lukaku's gonna be a hit. Calling it here first. I can't tell you how much the system at CFC fits him. He's going to score loads. 

Like I mentioned in a previous post, would be great having a striker that's a huge aerial threat. Gives us a new dimension.

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24 minutes ago, Leif said:

He minces his words to try and make sure he comes off with a halo after anything he says. 
He doesn't motivate the players around him to play better, he just lambasts the right back when he can't reach him 80 yards away with a pin point pass (lambasting which won't happen here, because he'll want his halo effect. In turn, he's just a fake person.)
He still has stamina issues. No way he can play week in week out both in the Premier League & against the best in Europe; - not effectively.
His individual game, technique, etc, is poor - he's scored the amount he has simply because that was Everton's goal, as a team, to put the goals through him. He's shown nothing that can benefit us; he simply stayed as far forward as he could each game and hope the defenders made the mistake of being too far forward for a split second, letting him run with average pace to place average shots in the back of the net. If you want this amount of goals from Lukaku again, you have to buy their whole team, play as they do, and suffer as they do.
He's shown more obsession and interest in being the next Drogba than the first Lukaku. He's too in his head and not enough in his body.
He's not above average for Belgium; he's already shown 0 exceptional chemistry with Hazard.
 

I'm not saying this sums him up entirely, but these are the valid negatives he brings.

What a ridiculous post. Is that all the negatives he brings? Half of these look like you've decided that you just don't like his personality. Let's pick them apart.

"He minces his words to sound like an angel" - not really a negative and nothing to do with football. 

"He doesn't motivate the players around him" - have you spoken to Koeman and Everton players to verify this or are you just going by him being frustrated that his team isn't creating enough? Watch this, tell me he doesn't deserve the right to be frustrated. All in a single game, in their three nil loss against us. Feeding off scraps all game, and rarely receiving a good pass, of course he'll be frustrated. Hazard does it, Costa does it when people mess up. That doesn't mean they don't motivate the players. 

Lukaku analysis starts at 14:30. 

"He still has stamina issues"? Can you back this claim up or?

"We need to buy Everton's whole team and copy their playing style to get Lukaku to score goals" - this is just absurd, broaden your thinking a bit. Have you ever thought about maybe how Lukaku can perform when he's in a better team? You have no shred of evidence for any of that. 

"Shown more obsession and interest in being the next Drogba" - although this hasn't been true for ages, what's so wrong with the guy wanting to emulate his idol, from his favourite club? How is this a negative! He wants to be just as important as Didier has been for CFC in his career. How in the world is that a negative?

"He's not above average for Belgium" - have you seen a certain Costa's record for Spain? What have you got to say about that exactly? 

Your "valid negatives" are lazy, people just haven't liked Romelu ever since he left the club and aren't thinking logically imo. 

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10 minutes ago, Rekin said:

Just look at the other threads mate. There has been a full-blown panic ever since Silva went to Man C. Suddenly you need to wrap up your transfers in May or otherwise be considered incompetent. 

Personally I think Lukaku is a reliable goal scorer with room to improve. He might not be the player that brings Chelsea up a level straight away, but we would not become weaker with him in the squad. If he joins alongside Baka/Tolisso in CM, a decent purchase in RWB and some width in the AM I would be happy. If we would also get Van Dijk that would be an awesome transfer window.  

I agree with most of your post - I just think there are better CBs available at VVDs price. For example - Romagnoli, Bonucci, Laporte would all be better purchases. But that's for another thread. I think I'd rather give Christensen a chance - he's just like a new signing essentially. If he wasn't owned by Chelsea he would've been snapped up by one of the other big clubs by now. He's got a fan in Pep for example. 

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I, for once used to love costa and against Lukaku joining, but after all the shit costa put us through, I'm in. At least, he's not gonna get a red card on his off days.

look on the bright side people. We will have any bs things like Lukaku want to join ATM

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Some of the claims on here are laughable.

 

He has been playing in an Everton squad that relies solely on him for goals and he scores those goals. Imagine a striker scoring 24 goals in the league with somene like Barkley and then imagine the service he will get frmo the likes of Fabregas and Hazard at Chelsea.

 

Boy is really young, really looks up to a Club legend and associates himself with it. 

 

ROm is also such a good aerial threat, powerful, can bully the defenders inside the box.

 

Also, I have followed a few Everton games, he doesn't score against top 6 much cause Koeman looks to shut up shop against them, he is quite literally the only man standing upfront in big games, can't do much about that, can you?

 

He is juts 24 and is the best striker in his age group right now in the world. Has 5 years experience in the league and has scored a ton of goals here already with midtable clubs.

 

Come on. Cut the guy some slack.

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3 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

I agree with most of your post - I just think there are better CBs available at VVDs price. For example - Romagnoli, Bonucci, Laporte would all be better purchases. But that's for another thread. I think I'd rather give Christensen a chance - he's just like a new signing essentially. If he wasn't owned by Chelsea he would've been snapped up by one of the other big clubs by now. He's got a fan in Pep for example. 

Absolutely this, especially the last line.

 

We should think of him as a new signing rather than an academy product. He is really good and juts turned 21. If we didn't have him already, we would have been linked with him for sure.

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This was obviously before the season ended but still interesting.

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27 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

Again with the conspiracy theories. I need someone to prove to me how they know Conte isn't the one after Lukaku. Concrete facts. 

Not saying it's legit, but DiMarzio's colleague said a couple weeks ago on twitter (in response to the Lukaku to Chelsea rumours) that Conte wanted Lukaku at Juventus. If true, then it's likely a Conte signing. I would rather believe someone who is knowledgable about Italian football than some random poster on a Chelsea forum lol

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1 minute ago, It's too big said:

 

Not saying it's legit, but DiMarzio's colleague said a couple weeks ago on twitter (in response to the Lukaku to Chelsea rumours) that Conte wanted Lukaku at Juventus. If true, then it's likely a Conte signing. I would rather believe someone who is knowledgable about Italian football than some random poster on a Chelsea forum lol

Yup, DiMarzio claimed that Lukaku was Conte's second choice anyway, so it isn't like he doesn't like him.

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People just wanna shit on the board for anything and focus on the negatives, forgetting the brilliant signings our board has made.