Romelu Lukaku

[Tomo 21,751]

7 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Shearer, Wrighty and Lineker the ultimate scorers seemed quite emphatic in their assessment, and  to know what they were talking about in terms of his poor service. They were also quite critical of his movement, and that both these facets had not been addressed in training.

For the club to have spunked out 97m they must have studied, watched, read numerous scouts reports just to acquire a 'shit footballer' This means there are several highly paid club officials that are stealing a living. Doesn't bode well.

 

Ex footballers doesn't mean they're the Oracle, Tim Sherwood pinned Maguire's struggles on Varane. A 4x relegated player struggling so it must mean the World Cup and 4x UCL winner is holding him back.

Furthermore system tax can only be remotely plausible if a player does their bit. Lukaku is lazy, hides (hence 7 touches) and can't control a football. And that's before we mention he rates himself on par with Benzema, Suarez, Lewandowski and Kane, the latter of whom fed on scraps himself yesterday yet still managed 2 goals and a defense splitting through ball.

When Gabby Agbonlahor had 8 touches in one half playing for bottom of the table Villa away to Spurs he was mocked on national TV yet when Lukaku does less over 90 in a team that dominates the ball it's excuse after excuse after excuse by so called experts, it's ridiculous.

Furthermore Shearer should have known better, he's a player that still delievered with Souness as his manager and Jermaine Jenas as his "service", great striker do it under any manager, any system, any circumstances.

Edited February 20, 2022 by Tomo

[Vytis33 1,262]

 

 

[Laylabelle 9,534]

2 hours ago, Pizy said:

If by some miracle we’re able to move on from him this summer we need to take a page out of Liverpool’s book in the search for a new striker. We need to stop shopping at the very highest price bracket and get creative. Scout around at medium sized or smaller clubs and find try to find the über talent that we can develop into a star. Mané, Salah, Jota, Diaz. All sub-£50m and developed into £100m caliber players eventually.

There’s gotta be more of these sorts of players in Spain or Portugal or Germany. Dudes that are at midtable clubs but are ready for a step up.

Either that or just get rid of Pulisic and Werner and sign some super creative AM’s and go the City striker-less route. We already have a system where we dominate 70% of the ball. So get tricky player who can actually do something with it.

Defintly! Klopp manages to find gold...guess also his management style too.Their new bloke has hit the ground running so far. High fees doesn't mean it'll amount to a high quality player and mostly for us it hasn't. So hopefully like you say we can be wise and fix our problems..

[Blues Forever 1,232]

11 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

Defintly! Klopp manages to find gold...guess also his management style too.Their new bloke has hit the ground running so far. High fees doesn't mean it'll amount to a high quality player and mostly for us it hasn't. So hopefully like you say we can be wise and fix our problems..

Liverpool having a great DoF like Edwards also helped too. Klopp was once wanted Brandt but Edwards pushed for Salah instead, the rest is history.

Edited February 20, 2022 by Blues Forever

[chelsea_4_eva 1,182]

His first touch is criminal, no wonder he doesnt get first time balls. Chances of losing possession is too high.

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

2 hours ago, Tomo said:

Ex footballers doesn't mean they're the Oracle, T

True but I'd tend to go with three top strikers judgement over some others. I think they are spot on with their assessment of his poor movement as well.

[MoroccanBlue 5,378]

10 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Ok hes shit. What would you do ?

I think it's either we sell him now or dumb down the team even further by trying to build everything around a limited footballer such as Lukaku. 

 

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

7 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

I think it's either we sell him now or dumb down the team even further by trying to build everything around a limited footballer such as Lukaku. 

 

Unfortunately I can not see the club just selling him yet

[MoroccanBlue 5,378]

5 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Unfortunately I can not see the club just selling him yet

Then expectations need to be drastically lower. There is the suggestion his signing has taken us two steps back. I beg to differ. Think his signing has taken us several steps back of where we want to be, which is competing against City and Liverpool who both have dynamic attackers that fit their system. Seems we want to sacrifice our similar blueprint in favor of playing around Lukaku, which quite frankly is down right stupidity as no top side in Europe has a team built around a limited striker. Let alone a side that just won the Champions League. 

Think we'll leapfrog from 4th to 3rd winning the odd cup here and there until we get rid of him. 
 

 

 

 

Edited February 20, 2022 by MoroccanBlue

[milka 3,390]

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

1 hour ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Then expectations need to be drastically lower. There is the suggestion his signing has taken us two steps back. I beg to differ. Think his signing has taken us several steps back of where we want to be, which is competing against City and Liverpool who both have dynamic attackers that fit their system. Seems we want to sacrifice our similar blueprint in favor of playing around Lukaku, which quite frankly is down right stupidity as no top side in Europe has a team built around a limited striker. Let alone a side that just won the Champions League. 

Think we'll leapfrog from 4th to 3rd winning the odd cup here and there until we get rid of him. 
 

 

 

 

Yes, quite depressing

[Tomo 21,751]

1 hour ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Think we'll leapfrog from 4th to 3rd winning the odd cup here and there until we get rid of him. 

I'd be surprised if we get much of the latter with him starting the crunch games. I have little hope for next week due to him likely lasting the 90/120 and I've even got doubts we'd get past Lillie (forget even competing with Bayern or City with this clown leading the line).

I agree we will still get top four as as much as Tuchel is infuriating me for picking him his coaching quality will still ensure we pick up enough points inspite of him.

I really hope Conte pushes for him and we don't stubbornly adopt a no sell to rival stance. I truly believe in karma (I believe the January clashes were Conte's for his behaviour in the last few months here) and I believe Lukaku will lose most if not every match he ever plays against us again.

Edited February 20, 2022 by Tomo

[Vesper 30,103]

1 hour ago, milka said:

  47 Goals for club and country since last season ended

[King Kante 1,643]

6 hours ago, Vytis33 said:

 

 

Is anyone surprised by this? He is simply a dog 💩 player. People can try and pin it on the players around him all they want but if you're a PL player and getting 7 touches/4 completed passes a game, that is on you and not the rest. 

He just now needs to be dropped asap. All our best football has been played without him and him being on the pitch literally means it is like playing with 10 men. 

No more of the BS please. 

[Tomo 21,751]

3 hours ago, King Kante said:

Is anyone surprised by this? He is simply a dog 💩 player. People can try and pin it on the players around him all they want but if you're a PL player and getting 7 touches/4 completed passes a game, that is on you and not the rest. 

He just now needs to be dropped asap. All our best football has been played without him and him being on the pitch literally means it is like playing with 10 men. 

No more of the BS please. 

It's fucked because it's actually testament to how good a coach Tuchel is that he's still keeping results good inspite of his presence but I can't praise him for it because he's basically putting out a fire he's repeatedly starting.

3 hours ago, Hermione said:

Imagine defending this fraud of a player, even the janitor would've gotten more touches than this joke. He is the biggest fraud in football history and nothing comes close to him in my book.

I'm genuinely contemplating not giving the club another penny until he is gone.

The thought of my hard earned money going towards his wages makes me wants to throw up.

Edited February 20, 2022 by Tomo