Romelu Lukaku

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

God hope PSG or Aletico do us a solid. 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

2 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

God hope PSG or Aletico do us a solid. 

Atletico bought Costa and Morata from us lol.

[chelsea_4_eva 1,159]

Hopefully Atletico can do us a solid, i read they are not planning on renewing Suarez... one thing is for sure, we would have to take a loss on this..

[Blue Armour 4,312]

32 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Havertz and Werner have a lot of uses despite their goal struggles. The former at false 9 facilitates us playing really enjoyable football and the latter causes teams headaches with his pace and pressing.

Lukaku is such a non entity in general play the only way he justifies his inclusion as an untouchable is with Messi and Ronaldo figures.

After dropping Lukaku for Liverpool  and having those clear the air talks with him,, I'd hoped that Tuchel had stamped his authority., and wouldn't be afraid to drop him in certain games as needed. Lukaku following his goofed up interview didn't have a leg to stand on.

Now it seems he's gone back to shoehorning him in every game., and Lukaku is back in favor. What gives?

Edited January 15, 2022 by Blue Armour

[Tomo 21,733]

4 minutes ago, Blue Armour said:

After dropping Lukaku for Liverpool  and having those clear the air talks with him,, I'd hoped that Tuchel had stamped his authority., and wouldn't be afraid to drop him in certain games as needed. Lukaku following his goofed up interview didn't have a leg to stand on.

Now it seems he's gone back to shoehorning him in every game., and Lukaku is back in favor. What gives?

I'm clinging onto the hope they've "made up" the same way Conte and Costa did and next season we can start afresh without this little brat.

[milka 3,351]

 

[Magic Lamps 11,668]

with his defensive workrate at least we don't need to worry he will ever be burnt out and needing rest lol.

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

ESPN making a whole segment on how our players around Lukaku aren't performing well to supply him and yet the notion of Lukaku not being able to control a ball today completely avoided.

Convinced these aren't football people. 

[Johnnyeye 7,445]

what a waste of space, just leave the club and go back to Inter

[Nero 1,847]

 

[Mário César 996]

If PSG offer 70/80M he needs to go.... And we can try Vlahovic.

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

1 minute ago, Mário César said:

If PSG offer 70/80M he needs to go.... And we can try Vlahovic.

Vlahovic still too early. 

Should seriously just do Havertz & Broja and see how they fair. 

[Mário César 996]

Just now, MoroccanBlue said:

Vlahovic still too early. 

Should seriously just do Havertz & Broja and see how they fair. 

Vlahovic is early and you want Broja? Lol

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

1 minute ago, Mário César said:

Vlahovic is early and you want Broja? Lol

Broja at the very least looks good in the Premier League. There is always the risk of buying STs from Italy or Germany. 

Other than Haaland, there really is no stand out ST atm. 

[Magic Lamps 11,668]

9/10 strikers fail here bc we just are and never were an all out attacking team. Only absolute elite strikers or those with impenetrable confidence will prevail here. We can't attract players of this calibre anymore so we should just not spend much at this position. Just buy 4 wc wingbacks instead for all i care.

In my almost 20 years of watching Chelsea games, I would consider only hasselbaink, drogba, costa and giroud a success here. honorable mentions to Gudjohnsen, Crespo... all except maybe drogba at the time came at moderate prices.

[Vesper 29,019]

7 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

9/10 strikers fail here bc we just are and never were an all out attacking team. Only absolute elite strikers or those with impenetrable confidence will prevail here. We can't attract players of this calibre anymore so we should just not spend much at this position. Just buy 4 wc wingbacks instead for all i care.

In my almost 20 years of watching Chelsea games, I would consider only hasselbaink, drogba, costa and giroud a success here. honorable mentions to Gudjohnsen, Crespo... all except maybe drogba at the time came at moderate prices.

£34.20m Costa

£34.65m (granted with inflation it is more) Drogba

 

I liked Crespo, deffo do not think he was a pure flop, just it never truly clicked, but his first year, if he had played a full EPL season, he was tracking to over 20 league goals (he had 10 league goals in only 19 games, in only 1100 minutes )

Edited January 16, 2022 by Vesper

[Blue Armour 4,312]

10 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

9/10 strikers fail here bc we just are and never were an all out attacking team. Only absolute elite strikers or those with impenetrable confidence will prevail here. We can't attract players of this calibre anymore so we should just not spend much at this position. Just buy 4 wc wingbacks instead for all i care.

In my almost 20 years of watching Chelsea games, I would consider only hasselbaink, drogba, costa and giroud a success here. honorable mentions to Gudjohnsen, Crespo... all except maybe drogba at the time came at moderate prices.

I would add Anelka too. One of the few "non-targetman" strikers to succeed here in recent times.

Anelka at the age we got him played with a lot of intelligence. Scoring and assisting. 

That intelligence is lacking in a lot of our later big money striker signings.

Edited January 16, 2022 by Blue Armour

[Tomo 21,733]

19 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

9/10 strikers fail here bc we just are and never were an all out attacking team. Only absolute elite strikers or those with impenetrable confidence will prevail here. We can't attract players of this calibre anymore so we should just not spend much at this position. Just buy 4 wc wingbacks instead for all i care.

In my almost 20 years of watching Chelsea games, I would consider only hasselbaink, drogba, costa and giroud a success here. honorable mentions to Gudjohnsen, Crespo... all except maybe drogba at the time came at moderate prices.

Prime Eidur Gudjohnsen would be a dream in this system.