Romelu Lukaku

[Sidzeret 2,257]

a 20 year old should never ever sit on a bench, nowhere, this is a general rule and a very simple one in real life football. As a 20 year old, you need to play games, not serve as a back up, if you would be sitting on a bench at that age(wich is normal in a top team like chelsea), you need to go play at a team that is playing at a lower lvl, and that's exactly what this loan is good for.

and whiny bitch, dude please...

Like I said, No.1 priority is not Lukaku's development but the betterment of the club, I'm sure Lukaku as our back-up striker is in the club's best interest.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

yes, that's a well known fact, he actively searched for teams to take him over but changed his mind in training

1) Your definition for "well known fact" is completely different to mine. I'm a Chelsea fan who spends on average about 2-3 hours daily reading Chelsea related stuff and I have never came across anything even implying that Jose ever wanted to sell Eden and judging by the reaction of everyone else here, neither have they.

2) If such an info had been mentioned by anyone even remotely reliable or in any popular Belgian media source, there is a 99.9% chance that it would have made it to all the papers in the UK because news like that sells...a lot!

3) If it isn't an inside source leaking this news, because if it were then we would have heard of it before, then how in the world would you know such a thing?

I get it that Jose is not very popular with some in Belgium because of the whole KDB debacle, but this propaganda of "news" about him is beyond silly.

[bouletje 82]

Like I said, No.1 priority is not Lukaku's development but the betterment of the club, I'm sure Lukaku as our back-up striker is in the club's best interest.

and as i said before, in the long run his development IS for the betterment of the club. Kid won't be growing and learning by sitting on a bench.

Our club can't and shouldn't rely on a 20 year old kid, to come off the bench and take care of it all, after all we are not man-united.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

and as i said before, in the long run his development IS for the betterment of the club. Kid won't be growing and learning by sitting on a bench.

Our club can't and shouldn't rely on a 20 year old kid, to come off the bench and take care of it all, after all we are not man-united.

What is that supposed to mean???

[bouletje 82]

What is that supposed to mean???

quite simple we should bring in a world class striker and hopefully we manage to keep eto'o as a second choice after all he's now our first forward and it's not that he's total rubbish for us so far as torres has been.

Lukaku might play champions league next year if we loan him out to everton again, let that team take the so called risk and test him on a top european level.

In the long run i can see this becoming a great investment, and my point stays the same, let the kid grow somewhere without the pressure of "we MUST end in the top 3" and we as fans might or might not love him in a few years.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

I think we should keep lukaku. Having watched a lot of his games, he has everything possible to become world class and his only weakness is inconsistent touch, but which striker doesn't have weakness these days?

He is already a top goal scorer and will only fit us since he is physical enough to get defenders off his back by himself.

We should bring him back next season even though he is the second striker. Jose should motivate him to have a fair chance of becoming number one ahead of any striker we buy this summer.

[Sovieticus 743]

and as i said before, in the long run his development IS for the betterment of the club. Kid won't be growing and learning by sitting on a bench.

Our club can't and shouldn't rely on a 20 year old kid, to come off the bench and take care of it all, after all we are not man-united.

But we can rely on Torres?

[bouletje 82]

But we can rely on Torres?

My next post mate, bring in a proven striker, and eto'o is the second striker if he wants to stay one more year.

[LukakutoStamford 779]

Cavani Lukaku Eto'o should be the three.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

quite simple we should bring in a world class striker and hopefully we manage to keep eto'o as a second choice after all he's now our first forward and it's not that he's total rubbish for us so far as torres has been.

Lukaku might play champions league next year if we loan him out to everton again, let that team take the so called risk and test him on a top european level.

In the long run i can see this becoming a great investment, and my point stays the same, let the kid grow somewhere without the pressure of "we MUST end in the top 3" and we as fans might or might not love him in a few years.

Fair enough. But I won't be asking Eto'o to stay when we could have Lukaku( Eto'o as a 3rd choice is perfect) I really don't think we should be making the same mistake we did this summer, by loaning him out.

What if the summer signing doesn't click all of a sudden and we are stuck with 33yo Eto'o? Lukaku is a strong, PL proven prodigy. He definitely has a place at Chelsea and I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a whole lot of games next season if he stays even after we bring in our summer striker. Imagine Costa-Lukaku-Eto'o, in that order. That is kick-ass.

[Baba 10]

I'm a huge Lukaku fan, ever since he came on the pitch in the belgian play-off final against Standard Liege aged 16 y and a few days. It was a terrible game, Anderlecht were nowhere and up comes this monster kid. His first action was a driblle in the corner past two defenders and a great ball in. I was sold immediately.

So, I might be a bit subjective here, although I can acknowledge he is sometimes still raw. He's 20!!

I don't know whether Lukaku will make it at Chelsea. No one knows, but the prospect is there, just as it was when Torres joined Chelsea. What I do know, is that he has delivered for every club he's played for until now (except Chelsea). Made Anderlecht champion's twice, youngest top scorer in the belgian Eerste Klasse, third youngest player to score in the CL (youngest was Nii Lamptey from Anderlecht) and youngest to score twice in one CL game, led WBA to their highest position in the EPL (look where they are now), qualified Belgium for their first WC in 12 years with two goals in Croatia, and is likely to give Everton their first CL ticket in 10 years. And yet, he's still only 20!!

Would he have made Chelsea champions this year if he had been given a proper chance? Probably not all by his own as he has done for other clubs in the past, but I'm sure Chelsea would be champions with 15+ Lukaku goals. Now, I'm not sure Chelsea will be champions...

[different level 1,056]

I can't see him staying next season especially if Eto'o extends his contract. Provided we buy a big money striker to lead the line, Lukaku will start the season as a third choice behind Sammy in the pecking order and he'll be requesting to be send on loan again.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Just realized he scored more goals than Aguero in PL since summer 2012.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Just realized he scored more goals than Aguero in PL since summer 2012.

...Because Aguero's been injured for most of it.

47 apps, 27 goals for Sergio. Only 3 behind Romelu has 30 in 60, 13 more appearances.

[Eligius 121]

Costa, Lukaku and Eto'o/Torres, would equal to Man city, Livepool and United' strike force. Lukaku will get games, i just hope he doesn't demand to be our number 1 striker.

Obviously he's not the finished article yet, on the ball he could be a bit better, but the fact is he scores goals. Costa and Lukaku would be devastating. If we do sell him to fund the Costa singing, what happens if Costa gets injured? we'll be left with Eto'o or Torres...

Really?

Costa, lukaku, eto equals Aguero/Dzeko/Jovetic/Negredo and Chicarito/rooney/RVP??

Some people on this board think's all of his goals he scored for both West brom and Everton would translate to goals for Chelsea..... Sorry, that's not how it works. Especially, when the offense doesn't revolve around you...

Eto a better striker than Lukaku, why would he play as the third striker? If eto is still here next season, and we sign costa or someone else, lukaku will be 3rd striker again...

[Stingray 9,441]

Its all up to Lukaku. He still is 20 years old (at least thats his official age).

Dude, he is born in Antwerp, Belgium, not Timboktoe. What a daft remark about his age. Those things are very, very official here in Belgium.

[Fernando 6,484]

My worry is that by signing Costa [insert other big name striker] is that.. when they lose form, they make the team anyway! (until they do or don't regain form) due to the fee paid and the fact you can't have a 200k a week player on the bench. So even IF Lukaku was competing with 'said striker' he still wouldn't have a chance.

I thought such things did not influence on Jose decision?

[bababoom 4,478]

Really?

Costa, lukaku, eto equals Aguero/Dzeko/Jovetic/Negredo and Chicarito/rooney/RVP??

Some people on this board think's all of his goals he scored for both West brom and Everton would translate to goals for Chelsea..... Sorry, that's not how it works. Especially, when the offense doesn't revolve around you...

Eto a better striker than Lukaku, why would he play as the third striker? If eto is still here next season, and we sign costa or someone else, lukaku will be 3rd striker again...

Maybe not better but close imo. The fact of the matter is our strikers will now get goals. Who would of said last season that Sturridge will outscore all of the strikers above, does it mean he's better? no, but he gets goals.

Lukaku scores goals wherever he goes, why wouldn't he get goals here? He's young, hungry and confident. Eto'o in his prime was better than Lukaku obviously, but 100 percent not now.