Romelu Lukaku

[The_Flash 1,144]

Problem is, in our squad does he work, he scored lots for West Brom and now Everton, was it just us?

[diskoviolente 425]

Did he do a "call me Mr. Mourinho" celebration there ?

[harneth 15]

Lukaku has now scored six goals in his last five Premier League appearances, having netted a hat-trick in his final match on loan at West Brom last season.

That statistic alone, even before taking into account this performance in which he also had the ball in the net on two other occasions in the first half but was denied by an offside flag, will prompt more awkward questions of Jose Mourinho's judgement in allowing the 20-year-old to spend another season away from Stamford Bridge.

The fact he has scored more league goals (three) this campaign than all the strikers the Portuguese has at his disposal looks like a glaring error by Mourinho.


Romelu Lukaku joined the distinguished company of Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Robbie Fowler, Emile Heskey and Ryan Giggs among the youngest players to score 20 Premier League goals with a fine performance in Everton's exciting 3-2 win over Newcastle United on Monday night.

The Belgian on-loan Chelsea forward, 20, became the youngest foreigner to score that amount goals in England's top flight and there could be no doubting the quality of his performance as Roberto Martinez's Everton ensured they remained the only unbeaten team.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Yeah Mou always knows what he is doing. Loaning Lukaku and signing Etoo.

Probably Lukaku here wouldnt score single goal in 10 games due to our striker issues, but he should be definately starter as both Torres and Etoo are relatively shit. Striker is to score goals, Lukaku does while our strikers dont.

[zolayes 14,489]

Lukaku has now scored six goals in his last five Premier League appearances, having netted a hat-trick in his final match on loan at West Brom last season.

That statistic alone, even before taking into account this performance in which he also had the ball in the net on two other occasions in the first half but was denied by an offside flag, will prompt more awkward questions of Jose Mourinho's judgement in allowing the 20-year-old to spend another season away from Stamford Bridge.

The fact he has scored more league goals (three) this campaign than all the strikers the Portuguese has at his disposal looks like a glaring error by Mourinho.

Romelu Lukaku joined the distinguished company of Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Robbie Fowler, Emile Heskey and Ryan Giggs among the youngest players to score 20 Premier League goals with a fine performance in Everton's exciting 3-2 win over Newcastle United on Monday night.

The Belgian on-loan Chelsea forward, 20, became the youngest foreigner to score that amount goals in England's top flight and there could be no doubting the quality of his performance as Roberto Martinez's Everton ensured they remained the only unbeaten team.

interesting stats

[Fernando 6,484]

Lukaku/Sturrigde combo could've been lethal.

Hehe I remember dreaming about that when we first got lukaku.

But dream died as the club sold Danny. :-(

[robdog 2,084]

interesting stats

I especially like that stat about being one of the youngest to score 20 goals in the Prem. I chat w/ one CFC fan in particular who discredits all of Lulu's goals. Especially the manure hat-trick. I will use that stat & tell him to STFU. Thanks again (i love your handle btw...not sure if I have ever told you that)

[Stats 7,059]

Showed it all last night. Goals, link up play, creating, literally everything. 3 goals in 2 games for Everton already while none of our strikers have scored one PL goal. Arsenal give their talent chances and they have proved themselves. Look at Gnabry. They have a lot of injuries but once they give youngsters a chance they take it. I know certain managers work different ways but other managers from different clubs must laugh at us when we loan out a striker who does what he done last season, is loaned out again when he is clearly the best striker in our ranks. Arsenal wanted another striker with Giroud this season for additional firepower and had they had someone like Lukaku, that would be chase over, Giroud and Lukaku would fit the bill because he is quality and yet we loan out our best striker who clearly would be scoring goals once given a proper run in the team. Still shocked how we could not give him one start.

Embarrassing thing is he will end up with more goals than all our strikers put together. While many are happy and complimenting his performance tonight there was no real surprise. It was obvious this is what he was going to end up doing and for those who said he is not ready to start, just look at tonight. He can make an impact of the bench and be equally good starting.

Yes Torres but in a brilliant performance against Spurs but the question is will it go back to square 1 again where he is inconsistent and lacks the goals.which was the missing link against Spurs. There was several things that I was looking forward to this season and one of them was Lukaku coming back and being the answer to our striking problems but another mistake we will have to learn from again as this can be the difference between a title chase and not.

But he is at Everton and we cannot change that so let's just relish the fact that he will end up with a bagful of goals this season and ready to be back as no.1 striker next season (hopefully).

[Coop 114]

Good for him he got loaned out, Chelsea is not an easy team for making lots of goals.

This year scoring a lot and learn a lot and maybe he can carry the heavy weight of scoring goals for Chelsea.

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[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Lukaku's ability and talent were never in question. His strengths at this moment don't align with Chelsea's playing style. He could have stayed and improved as 2nd or 3rd choice but it's better to be first choice at Everton. I have no problem with the loan move. He'll improve with his build-up play and his back to goal hopefully playing at Everton, because that's what he needs at Chelsea. Everything else he already has.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Bring him back...

[hjperdeath 2,226]

Jose won't get him back. I honestly hope he doesn't. He is playing so good and he'll keep developing. If he comes back to us, it would be depressing to see his career be ruined while being behind Torres and Eto'o. Plus that crucial NT spot. Stay wherever you are Lukaku, and come back next year. It's the best decision for both the parties.

[nachikethas 1,149]

lot of people i mean in general are thinking we send him out for loan to be a flop and suddenly it back fired as!!

he scoring goals at very good rate,playing every match and that is the whole point of this loan.

for me westbrom was the third place podium everton the second and chelsea the FIRST. he will stand and collect his medal next year for sure.

whether he could suddenly jump to first place from third we may never know. but i believe that could have been very hard.

[LukakutoStamford 779]

The loan isn't the problem here. It was what needed to be done. He needs to play #1 striker minutes. The problem is that absolute dross that is still at the club at the striker position.

[Las7 951]

The loan isn't the problem here. It was what needed to be done. He needs to play #1 striker minutes. The problem is that absolute dross that is still at the club at the striker position.

Spot on, when you are 6 games into the season your forwards have scored fewer goals than Mikel serious questions need to be asked.

We still have the biggest flop of English football playing regularly for us and a semi retired Eto'o - Ba is only here because we don't want to strengthen Arsenal

[MetsajCFC 1,255]

No strike force consisting of Torres is lethal

He's been the best player for us past couple of games - and doing that while getting all that crap from supporters, having the media on him and so on. In that perspective the situation is easier for Lukaku.

[MetsajCFC 1,255]

I feel insulted by people saying that it's more difficult to score for us than Everton or Westbrom, making it sound like it's an easy thing for a player to score at those teams despite the fact that other than Benteke; Lukaku and Sturridge over the last 2 years there has been not a single young striker at any of the lesser clubs in the EPL scoring loads of goals. Simply put Lukaku; Sturridge and Benteke are the best young strikers in the League and can easily be compared with the top dogs(RvP; Rooney; Kun; etc).

The problem stems that CFC doesn't trust youth and prefers to flog a dead horse as opposed to actually giving Lukaku some game time.

It's not about the competition for places that makes it harder to score for Chelsea. It's the fact that teams defend with 10 behind the ball when playing against us, and with only one striker up front he can not afford any mistakes. Simple as that. Please try to have more perspective.

[Las7 951]

He's been the best player for us past couple of games - and doing that while getting all that crap from supporters, having the media on him and so on. In that perspective the situation is easier for Lukaku.

You do realize Torres has been here for 34 months ?

Lukaku had two sub appearances and people wrote him off - load of spastic comments, there is a reason I dislike Torres, because he represents everything wrong at the club and gets selected not based on form but based on how much we paid and how much he is earning. Otherwise he would have long lost his place in the Team to the likes of Sturridge and Lukaku.

It's not about the competition for places that makes it harder to score for Chelsea. It's the fact that teams defend with 10 behind the ball when playing against us, and with only one striker up front he can not afford any mistakes. Simple as that. Please try to have more perspective.

You try to have a little perspective, we have one of the best young strikers in the League and instead of playing an inform player we play Torres who has 1 GOAL in the EPL for the Calendar year thus far, and a semi retired player from Russia who might or might not be an upgrade over a player who has scored 1 GOAL in the EPL for the Calendar year thus far. It might be easier to score at Everton or Westbrom but it should not be as difficult as it's proving for Torres to score in the EPL at Chelsea. United/City/Arsenal also face teams that pack their own area doesn't mean that their strikers score 1 goal every 8 months in the League.

Torres has 1 goal for the last 1358 minutes on the field for Chelsea Football Club in the EPL, Lukaku scores a goal ever 100 minutes - even if he scores less at CFC I don't see how he could not improve over Torres's pathetic record.

Torres has played a total of 4721 minutes for CFC in the EPL since arriving scoring a goal ever 314.74 minutes that's worse than a 1/3 record, spanning over 3 seasons. So please when you talk about the crap Torres is getting by supporters ask yourself what he was signed for, take a look at Berbatov's record at United a player who was deemed not good enough for them and they went on to sign RvP - Berbatov's record at United blows Torres out of the water. With his record in the EPL wit us Torres would be lucky to be playing in a mid level EPL club and would only be a first choice striker at a relegation threatened team. Arsenal would have bitten our hand if we offered them Lukaku on loan, they'd probably laugh and ask if we are joking if we offered Torres.