Romelu Lukaku

[OhForAGreavsie 5,898]

4 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Oh well we're through, we won. Still feels a bit flat though, although Plymouth with 5 across at the back made it hard work

Embarrassing was the word I used at the end of the game. The quality difference should have been stark and clear but it wasn't.

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

2 hours ago, milka said:

meanwhile

 

Don’t you worry. He’ll get another full 90 next week too. 

[laura90 556]

Called him Kepa II the days before he even signed but he is far worse signing than Kepa. I disrespected Kepa. He at least was moveable from the starting line up if not from the wage bill and the club. This one can't be moved even from the line up let alone wage bill and the club. I really hope bridge crowd will show their discontent, even though it's bad for the club it may be good for the team.

He will probably cost us the Club world cup, if he starts. We would have lost Uefa Super Cup with him up front. We would have never won CL with him upfront. And we will win nothing with him upfront. My two cents.

When will we move him? When we loan him out  paying big share of his wages.

But that doesn't even matter. What matter is, will those who paid record fee for him on top  with record wages leave too.  And be replaced with more knowable football experts.  If not , we are entering new, midtable era.

It was never about Romelu Lukaku. There were writings on the wall that everyone bar handful of Lukaku fans could easily see.  

It was always about ignorance and incompetence of those who failed to see these signs and have signed him. 

Tuchel wasn't here 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and we still were linked. Wishfull thinking it was Tuchel. 

 

 

[Tomo 21,733]

8 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Because situations where he is robbed for assist never happened..

For a start, Lukaku robbed him of two against Spurs.

[Jase 43,479]

14 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

5 games on the trot he’s played a full 90. Now 120 minutes today and still nothing. 

Not exactly. He's started the last 7 games in all competitions and completed the full 90 in 5 of those games (he was taken off at HT for a rest against Chesterfield in one of the other 2 games).

[Jase 43,479]

7 hours ago, laura90 said:

Tuchel wasn't here 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and we still were linked. Wishfull thinking it was Tuchel. 

It's no secret that the club make the call on signings and while I don't know if Tuchel would have been able to persuade them to do otherwise, it's worth noting that Tuchel himself also went along with the Lukaku signing (he mentioned he spoke with Tuchel before joining). So, Tuchel isn't exactly innocent here. 

[Vesper 29,019]

Lukaku is overweight, sluggish, slow AF (almost no burst speed lately), beyond wuthless on defence/pressing, disinterested, and throws a strop far too often. He never should have been purchased.

A right fucking proper £180m (fees + 5 years average salary in toto) nightmare.

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[Laylabelle 9,381]

1 minute ago, Vesper said:

Lukaku is overweight, sluggish, slow AF (almost no burst speed lately), beyond wuthless on defence/pressing, disinterested, and throws a strop far too often. He never should have been purchased.

A right fucking proper £180m (fees + 5 years average salary in toto) nightmare.

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This is what I mean! Why couldn't someone else have brought him and we could he all hahhaah they're really stupid hahahhaha. Except nooo we signed him..for stupid amounts of money..again! And hasn't paid off...again...

[Vesper 29,019]

25 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

This is what I mean! Why couldn't someone else have brought him and we could he all hahhaah they're really stupid hahahhaha. Except nooo we signed him..for stupid amounts of money..again! And hasn't paid off...again...

I will have to someday go back and re-calculate the grand totals (as some that I was calculating reduced sales for will and have left on frees/vastly reduced (from even my lowball tallies) amounts, plus potential losses on frees for big guns like AC and Rudiger, etc), but we are now damn near approaching 2/3rds to 3/4ers of a BILLION quid tossed away, starting in 2016/2017, in poor buys, bad sales, refused sales, refused buys (where we may pay vast amounts more or will never, near to medium term get the players in and thus have to settle), and cocked up contractual management.

Serious amounts of shit-away dosh. Combine that with monies lost due to Covid, and the numbers are coming up on 1 billion pounds sterling.

PLUS no new stadium, and thus at least £50-75 million lost per anum in future forward revenue projections, not to mention the loss of physical plant-enabled pulling power in the transfer market that comes along with us being the only top 25 or so club in Europe with either no new (or vastly expanded/renovated) stadium either already being used or coming online in the near to medium term future.

And yet no heads have rolled.

Edited February 6, 2022 by Vesper

[Fulham Broadway 16,920]

Emile Heskey reincarnated

[Vesper 29,019]

17 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Emile Heskey reincarnated

September 1, 2001, 10 days before the world changed, we put the old bovver boots to the Germans in München, with Heskey scoring the last of our 5 goals

[Fulham Broadway 16,920]

9 minutes ago, Vesper said:

September 1, 2001, 10 days before the world changed, we put the old bovver boots to the Germans in München, with Heskey scoring the last of our 5 goals

Remember the media going apeshit about that -like England had won a war 🙄

At least we got Ballack five years later  👍

 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

34 minutes ago, Vesper said:

September 1, 2001, 10 days before the world changed, we put the old bovver boots to the Germans in München, with Heskey scoring the last of our 5 goals

Not hard considering Germany only have 2 world class players in Kahn and Ballack at that time.

[Vesper 29,019]

22 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

Not hard considering Germany only have 2 world class players in Kahn and Ballack at that time.

Germany with Ballack (and do not forget Miroslav Klose) may have well won the WC 10 months later if Ballack had not been suspended by that ridiculous yellow card rule (now changed, partly because of that) after a professional foul in the semi-final. Losing Ballack fucked up pretty much everything about their shape and flow v Brasil.

 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

13 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Germany with Ballack (and do not forget Miroslav Klose) may have well won the WC 10 months later if Ballack had not been suspended by that ridiculous yellow card rule (now changed, partly because of that) after a professional foul in the semi-final. Losing Ballack fucked up pretty much everything about their shape and flow v Brasil.

 

Maybe although that Brazil team was still far superior than Germany.

[Vesper 29,019]

26 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

Maybe although that Brazil team was still far superior than Germany.

yes, Brasil was just loaded that year

22    GK    Rogério Ceni    22 January 1973 (aged 29)    12    Brazil São Paulo
1    GK    Marcos    4 August 1973 (aged 28)    15    Brazil Palmeiras
12    GK    Dida    7 October 1973 (aged 28)    49    Brazil Corinthians
2    DF    Cafu (c)    7 June 1970 (aged 31)    103    Italy Roma
6    DF    Roberto Carlos    10 April 1973 (aged 29)    84    Spain Real Madrid
16    DF    Júnior    20 June 1973 (aged 28)    12    Italy Parma
13    DF    Juliano Belletti    20 June 1976 (aged 25)    10    Brazil São Paulo
5    DF    Edmílson    10 July 1976 (aged 25)    12    France Lyon
4    DF    Roque Júnior    31 August 1976 (aged 25)    17    Italy Milan
3    DF    Lúcio    8 May 1978 (aged 24)    15    Germany Bayer Leverkusen
14    DF    Ânderson Polga    9 February 1979 (aged 23)    5    Brazil Grêmio
10    MF    Rivaldo    19 April 1972 (aged 30)    58    Spain Barcelona
19    MF    Juninho    22 February 1973 (aged 29)    43    England Middlesbrough
18    MF    Vampeta    13 March 1974 (aged 28)    36    Brazil Corinthians
7    MF    Ricardinho    23 May 1976 (aged 26)    3    Brazil Corinthians
8    MF    Gilberto Silva    7 October 1976 (aged 25)    6    Brazil Atlético Mineiro
15    MF    Kléberson    19 June 1979 (aged 22)    5    Brazil Atlético Paranaense
11    MF    Ronaldinho    21 March 1980 (aged 22)    24    France Paris Saint-Germain
23    MF    Kaká    22 April 1982 (aged 20)    2    Brazil São Paulo
20    FW    Edílson    17 September 1971 (aged 30)    17    Brazil Cruzeiro
21    FW    Luizão    14 November 1975 (aged 26)    8    Brazil Grêmio
9    FW    Ronaldo    22 September 1976 (aged 25)    56    Italy Inter Milan
17    FW    Denílson    24 August 1977 (aged 24)    53    Spain Real Betis

 

Edited February 6, 2022 by Vesper

[King Kante 1,500]

On 05/02/2022 at 21:28, milka said:

meanwhile

 

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One duel and no dribbles won against Plymouth? 

Where are all those people that thought he was good/been transformed in Italy? 

Absolute donkey of a player. 

Edited February 7, 2022 by King Kante

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

Surely the board aren't this daft and will try to offload him in the summer? Surely? He was pocketed by Plymouth?!!?

Christ even if Atletico or PSG somehow come to our rescue, you'd think this would be another hard lesson learned from the board to not pursue targets merely on name alone. But it won't.