Romelu Lukaku

[The Skipper 20,593]

On 13/06/2017 at 5:56 AM, Tomo said:

Jose maybe abysmal at playing a youngster from scratch but he has shown with Rashford that he will play one's already proven after inheriting them (KDB aside). Factor in Costa's injury/suspensions and the impact Lukaku is capable of making from the bench, he would have got more than enough minutes in 14/15.

Jose had to play Rashford, the hype around him was too big. He's potentially England's next great #9 (after Kane), would've been unforgivable if he didn't play him. Can't say I agree with the analogy. Don't think Jose would've played Lukaku ahead of Eto'o, Ba or Torres tbh. In hindsight, it was better for Romelu to leave to get consistent first team minutes. He's improved quite a bit as a player. 

[The Skipper 20,593]

Some comments from an Everton forum:

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Yes Costa fits the system they played but that's the whole point Conte devised the system on the players they had. Is Costa a better player ? As they say football is all about opinions and going forward I personally rate the better prospect as being Lukaku.

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I'd personally make him stay. Without him we will NOT finish in the top four. It will set us back years losing him. You simply cannot find strikers who score 25 premier league goals that would want to come here without CL football.

 

Is the 90m for the sale that important? It buys you Kyle Walker and Pickford these days, its nothing

Much rather we kept him for two years and made the top four. Club more interested in £££ than success

 

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He will continue to score goals at a prolific rate as he has done his whole career. Myself, I'd rather see him bagging them for us

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terraloon said: ↑

Pretty crap really 12 goals in last 16 appearances. Dont forget he started playing for Belgium before his 18th birthday.

I don't know if to laugh or cry at some of the comments about his abilities. People talk about his poor positioning, his poor first touch yet want mega money for him when surely if he was that bad he should be let go for free.

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It's all a coping mechanism mate

People are gutted he's going so they're making out he isn't that good

I did the same when Rooney left all those years ago

I was wrong then and they're wrong now

[Chelsea? 892]

How does he score so many goals? Seems everyone is in agreement that he has a poor first touch and poor positioning. Only thing good I hear about his ability is his heading. 

[Clockwork 1,794]

32 minutes ago, Chelsea? said:

How does he score so many goals? Seems everyone is in agreement that he has a poor first touch and poor positioning. Only thing good I hear about his ability is his heading. 

Here is all 26 goals he scored for Everton this season.

 

Now compare that to the quality of goals Costa scored.

 

[Clockwork 1,794]

17 hours ago, Thor said:

Seems like the people that didn't want Luiz back are the same ones harping on about Lukaku.

I can't wait for him to get here and start banging in goals.

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Weak correlation. You are comparing a great technical player like Luiz to a striker whose biggest weakness is technical ability.

I bet there is much stronger correlation between those wanted to sign Torres and those who wants to sign Lukaku. 

[Despiadado.Maleante 1,046]

1 hour ago, Chelsea? said:

How does he score so many goals? Seems everyone is in agreement that he has a poor first touch and poor positioning. Only thing good I hear about his ability is his heading. 

His heading is poor. Especially for someone for his stature.

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24 minutes ago, Despiadado.Maleante said:

His heading is poor. Especially for someone for his stature.

Omg lol. Is he good at anything 

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1 hour ago, Clockwork said:

Here is all 26 goals he scored for Everton this season.

 

Now compare that to the quality of goals Costa scored.

 

Idk if it's the way we play but man Costa was awesome at the start of the season. 

Lukaku's goals seemed pretty average 

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54 minutes ago, Despiadado.Maleante said:

His heading is poor. Especially for someone for his stature.

He has improved his heading. Last season he scored 6 headed goals which is more than most PL strikers. Some excellent headers there too.

20 minutes ago, Chelsea? said:

Idk if it's the way we play but man Costa was awesome at the start of the season. 

Lukaku's goals seemed pretty average 

Really? Watched the video above and saw some really impressive goals. Let's start off with his fantastic free kick against Palace last season at Goodison Park. His goal against City at Etihad in the 1-1 game last season was a very good goal. Completely outpace and outmuscled Clichy and finished expertly. His goal at Leicester was again another example of him showing great pace strength and finishing with aplomb. His finish in the game against Southampton in the 3-0 victory was a brilliant finish with his weaker foot. Then in their game against Bournemouth where he scored 4 goals, his first was a brilliant goal. The clip speaks for itself. His fourth and final goal was another excellent goal and another example of him using brute strength and pace and finishing calmly.

His goal against Sunderland was another fine goal. Outmuscled the player from outside the area and continues to run into the box and calmly finishes. Impressive goal. Then his goal at WHL in the 2-1 loss to Spurs was a very good goal. Completely outmuscles Vertonghen and finishes excellently with his weaker foot. His header against Leicester in the 4-2 victory against Leicester was a very good goal. Brilliant cross and brilliant movement and header from Lukaku. I was also impressed with his penultimate goal against Burnley. The desire, complete strength to knock off Michael Keane and composure was really impressive.

So I think it would be harsh to say his goals were average. Some really good ones. Also some very different style of goals too. Headers, ones where he anticipates defenders mistakes and latches on to it. Others are ones where he is running at the defender and muscling them off and the odd free kick. A lot of goals there were not even made by team mates as well which is impressive, he completely created those goals for himself.

[YorkshireBlue 3,122]

4 hours ago, Chelsea? said:

Idk if it's the way we play but man Costa was awesome at the start of the season. 

Lukaku's goals seemed pretty average 

Really? I have to disagree lukaku is a fantastic finisher be good to compare them missing lol 

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£30m for a GK would be a lot of money, if they didnt expect big funds coming in

[ja1 1,166]

21 hours ago, BlueLyon said:

It would be also nice to have a striker that can pop them outside of penalty area, sadly Lukaku is nothing special there.

I think he has this in his locker, he has a very powerful shot, and has also shown he is capable of placing shots on his right and left foot into the top corner from ~25 yards out. 

The goals from 11:58-12:15 show what I'm talking about, whoever he plays for over the coming seasons wouldn't be surprised to see him score more screamers.

[ja1 1,166]

11 hours ago, Despiadado.Maleante said:

His heading is poor. Especially for someone for his stature.

A classic stereotypical and outdated view on Lukaku's style. This is literally the description of Costa who's heading stats are pathetic despite his frame. Lukaku 3-4 years ago was the same, now he's a bonafide aerial threat. Everton use this / used to use this to their advantage with Deulofeu's and Bolasie's main assists usually crosses onto Lukaku's head.

[Bernard N Y Burgesson 139]

If costa was put in the everton team would he even be able to get 15 goals. I bet you not.

This guy could have scored 30+ goals this season because not striker in the league was getting the amount of chances he was getting.

If harry kane was playing for us i bet he would have broken the record for goals in a season. 

Costa is alright but for the service that recieves, he is poor. Look at the game against Palace last season the one we lost. That was the match that convinced me this would be his last season. I could count up to about 15 crosses into the box and even the goals he likes to score most(tap ins) he couldn,t even do that. 

[Bernard N Y Burgesson 139]

13 hours ago, Clockwork said:

Here is all 26 goals he scored for Everton this season.

 

Now compare that to the quality of goals Costa scored.

 

what i like about lukaku's goals are the fact that he goes solo on 40% of his goals but still fights of every one to score. Costa did it like twice against Mancity and west brom. 

Unfortunately for lukaku the guy who was assisting him often at the beginning of the season, Bolasie got injured in November if not i am certain he would have beaten Kane to the Golden boot. Lucky for Costa, there were no major injuries to the likes of hazard to affect his goal scoring.

Like i said Costa scored goals because of the amount of service he got even lukaku didnt get half of.those. After all the system we played was because af the players we had. I would be expecting a 3-5-2 next season.

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[Clockwork 1,794]

4 hours ago, Bernard N Y Burgesson said:

what i like about lukaku's goals are the fact that he goes solo on 40% of his goals but still fights of every one to score. Costa did it like twice against Mancity and west brom. 

Unfortunately for lukaku the guy who was assisting him often at the beginning of the season, Bolasie got injured in November if not i am certain he would have beaten Kane to the Golden boot. Lucky for Costa, there were no major injuries to the likes of hazard to affect his goal scoring.

Like i said Costa scored goals because of the amount of service he got even lukaku didnt get half of.those. After all the system we played was because af the players we had. I would be expecting a 3-5-2 next season.

 The goals Costa scored were absolute quality, most of them came off difficult finishing. No idea how you draw the conclusion that Costa scored because of the amount of service he got. Lukaku scored a lot more tap ins and with little ease. He scored some good goals but you are clearly misteaken with your assessment.

Look Chelsea are going to play in tight spaces and against stacked defenses. What you consider solo goals are mainly open spaces against a defender or two, those are not the opportunities Chelsea get with ease. Instead you have to be patient and link up in order to break down defenses.

 

 

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18 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

 The goals Costa scored were absolute quality, most of them came off difficult finishing. No idea who you draw the conclusion that Costa scored because of the amount of service he got. Lukaku scored a lot more tap ins and with little ease. He scored some good goals but you are clearly misteaken with your assessment.

Look Chelsea are going to play in tight spaces and against stacked defenses. What you consider solo goals are mainly open spaces against a defender or two, those are not the opportunities Chelsea get with ease. Instead you have to be patient and link up in order to break down defenses.

 

 

YES THATS WHAT CHELSEA NEED. We have hazard pedro and willian and fabregas to score those goals. i am talking about what i liked about costa before and it is those close range tap ins and the 1 top goals  but somehow costa seems to have forgotten how and is now trying to score those cheeky goals. For example the goal that won us the title(Bats goal) those are the goals i am talking about. We have to many players at the moment scoring the spectacular we need the guy who will score the 3 tap ins within a match not the guy who score one goal and then is satified.

Conte actually begun to piss me off last season because if costa scores you just have to take him of cause to him he has done his job whether we are winning or loosing. so most often than not he becomes a passenger.