Romelu Lukaku

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Wow, calm down people..

[The Skipper 20,593]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2646047/Romelu-Lukaku-insists-wants-stay-Chelsea-despite-uncertainty.html

how strange!!! he evsaid that he wants to stay!!! and then he goes and changes his twitter bio just YESTERDAY!!!! he said this on 2nd june... right before the WC started.. right from the horses MOUTH!!!!

how anyone thinks that lukaku being sold CAN lead to jose has already being described. lukaku selling equals to us having torres and DD/remy/emenike/bamford as the 2nd striker. that is equal to us STILL having the striker problems. every striker goes thru a lean spell as will costa at some point of the season. at that time, we wont have a good back-up just like last season and then drop points, just like last season. you go into the season thinking of REALISTIC situation. costa scoring 10 goals in 5 games is not a situation JOSE would be expecting or getting us prepared from. for a season we will ATLEAST 2 goalscorers (plus torres). thats a realistic situation.

tell me who wants to be here and who u would buy with that money and how exactly will be better for us? remmy? eminike? who exactly are we talking about? who would be our 2nd striker? SAF kept CR against his will, he ended up winning them the PL! sometimes u have to make exceptions and this definitely is one of those times. its easy saying SIMPLE. but its not fifa where a player says "i want to leave" and u transfer list. right now, the better thing for the club to do will be taking a risk with a 21 year old lukaku, if it pays off, we have a striker for the next 10 years, if not, we can buy some decent back-up striker next year rather than making the same mistake we made with BA.

I ask once again... Have you just been ignoring everything in the past few weeks? It feels like you're very out of the loop on the Lukaku situation... He once again changed his mind on the situation. Here is what he said on the 7th of July:

And the Belgium forward , who has been linked with clubs all over Europe, said: What I dont want is to be loaned out.

I am 21 and I have been loaned for the last two seasons. Thibaut Courtois was loaned for three seasons and will be without doubt the first-choice Chelsea goalkeeper.

And Kevin De Bruyne has been transferred permanently to Wolfsburg. They are free in their heads - it is not my case. That would free me totally.

And the Belgian said he wants to model his progress on Argentinas goalscorer in the quarter-finals - former Real Madrid and now Napoli forward Gonzalo Higuain.

I dont know - there are several clubs that are interested, he said.

I need to make a good decision to reach the absolute top so that I can score a goal like Higuain against us. It is a dream for every attacker.

Higuain has evolved slowly into becoming a top player. I want to show what I can do and play in the Champions League with a big club.

The decision will soon be taken. I have some ideas but we will have to see what is best for the clubs. I dont want to negotiate before the clubs have come to an agreement.

Again, how does that signify to you that he's made his mind up and decided that he wants to stay at the club? You're being very selective in your Lukaku thought process.

You're saying that we should think about going into next season with realistic situations? How realistic do you think it is Jose wants to keep a guy that doesn't want to be here? Until I see concrete evidence that he wants to stay this is the current, realistic situation (sorry, him changing his twitter bio doesn't cut it). How realistic do you think it is the club won't sell a guy that doesn't want to be here when he can as of right now fetch us ~£25m, rather than selling him for £10-15m less next year?

I'm actually laughing here in regards to your CR7 analogy with Lukaku. How can you even compare the situations? What has Lukaku done for CFC for you to even compare the situations? Ronaldo was United's main player, Lukaku hasn't ever played any significant role here at CFC. You're basically trying to insinuate how Lukaku could be the difference between us winning a PL and not. That's ludicrous, sorry. It's incredible how you've already put him on a C. Ronaldo pedestal when he's done NOTHING at this club. And don't even bring Sturridge into this analogy because Sturridge actually played out of position, scored goals and was a key player under AVB here at CFC. Sturridge situation had to do with managerial instability at the club here. Lukaku hasn't done anything at CFC to even deserve this sort of pedestal you've put him on.

You're saying that we should take a risk on a 21 year old that doesn't even want to be here, that'll probably just open his mouth again and disrupt the atmosphere at the club... That'll probably angle for a transfer as soon as he can again. Sorry I just don't see how that is for the betterment of CFC. Unless he's willing to accept a role here as second choice it's much better if we cash in on him right now.

[nadavTKL 1,787]

Which paper talked about a 18m fee?

[xPetrCechx 13,548]

Um, why? What has Lukaku actually done in a Chelsea shirt?

He should definitely get a chance to fight for a spot, and HE GOT THAT LAST YEAR BUT ASKED TO LEAVE.

One more time for the people asleep at the back of the class.

HE RECEIVED A CHANCE AT THIS CLUB AND ASKED TO LEAVE.

Now someone convince me that Jose will respect that attitude. That's Jose Mourinho. This guy

When he got the chance?

[LAM09 6,552]

Lukaku to Everton rumours seem to be hotting up.

Surely they can't afford to buy him?

[bababoom 4,478]

I personally wouldn't care at all if we sold him, he's good but imo he has too many flaws in his game to ever be great. It's alright scoring goals for West Brom and Everton, but when he plays for a top side he'll struggle IMO, 70 percent of the time teams sit back and as we know Lukaku looks like a headless chicken when he has no space to run into.

On top of all that, he's a cunt as well, just watch Luis' interview and compare his attitude to Lukaku'... Luis is arguably one of the best LBs in the game right now and he still wants to improve be more 'complete', whereas the 'humble' 21 year old thinks he's already the complete package, he's a fucking joke.

[Peace. 4,352]

Therefore, the 'betterment of the club' this season, as you say, is to not have a single 'bad apple' in the group (especially in the eyes of the manager). The manager needs to be 100% sure that everyone is pulling in the same direction. Mourinho cannot be sure with Lukaku, so unless we see a miraculous change in attitude (accepting his position as no.2) the best thing 'for the club' is to move him on for the biggest price possible, as soon as possible.

You are right in what you are saying. Keeping Lukaku in this situation, does not necessarily consist in being a "betterment" for the club, at all ; and it could be quite the contrary.

When a player's head is off, then it is pretty much a lost cause. It takes a player to be an excellent professional in order to give near 100% in this kind of context ; and he will never 100%, consciously or not.

Now, these past three seasons, we have witnessed how much Lukaku is professional ; and humble. Firstly he vividly criticized André Villas-Boas for not playing — it is classy to shot on a dead man walking... And to be honest, in regards of the situation, giving Lukaku playing-time was certainly one of the last priorities at that time (especially since he was absolutely dreadful when playing). Then, when having to face to competition of the Wonder-Horse and the 45 years-old Eto'o — people like to include Ba, but the truth is that he would have been sold or loaned, had Lukaku stayed —, he opted for the easy way and to go out on loan. Finally, he told the world that "clubs are interested in me", and pretentiously "Chelsea know my point of view".

How it will fare when he will realise that the complete striker that he is will be the second choice, at best, by a fine margin, and will have to fight for game time against the Wonder-Horse, the one and only Ladyboy ?

Mourinho seeks from each of his players to give everything they have. I say Mourinho, but it is how modern football works. It happens that Lukaku does not really take part to the collective effort of his team-mate ; every time I saw him play, he was just strolling around the pitch awaiting for someone to put him through the goal. This kind of attitude does not go well with the ambitions we have.

So basically, we have on our hands a player : that does not really intend to fight for his place and who is eyeing for a move away from us ; that as the tendency to bitch when he is not pampered and denied the starting position ; that seems to bigger himself and feels he is as big as the club, as he pretentiously said "Chelsea knows my point of view" (who the hell does he thinks he is to say such a thing ?) ; that does feel like working hard for the team.

When you put all these variables all together, it seems more likely that keeping him will result as having a dead weight than having a "betterment" for our squad.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Rumour said Morata have a medical at Juve, and now Real want Falcao and Lukaku

[iseah100 5,612]

Rumour said Morata have a medical at Juve, and now Real want Falcao and Lukaku

Awesome, maybe they'll pay us like £45m for Lukaku. As long as we say no a few times haha.

[Chelsea? 892]

You don't GET chances.You EARN them.

He didn't think he'd get a FAIR chance. how is scoring more goals than Torres and Ba in WBA the year before not deserving of a chance?

[iseah100 5,612]

He didn't think he'd get a FAIR chance. how is scoring more goals than Torres and Ba in WBA the year before not deserving of a chance?

HE MISSED A PENALTY!

[xPetrCechx 13,548]

When Lukaku got a fair chance?

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Awesome, maybe they'll pay us like £45m for Lukaku. As long as we say no a few times haha.

Lol.

A swap with Khedira would be nice, then we can go for 433.

[JDY 1,290]

Disappointing that whenever I see this thread bumped I come in thinking 'what has he said now..'. Hopefully the situation gets clarified soon so the club and the player can move forward.

[Stats 6,981]

Dharmesh who does the transfer round up on skysports and is very reliable just said that reports of Lukaku joing Everton on a permanent transfer is not true. He is currently on holiday with his girlfriend and will return for pre-season traning on monday and has claimed he wants to stay and fight for his place.

I hope this is true.

[Blue Armour 4,165]

Dharmesh who does the transfer round up on skysports and is very reliable just said that reports of Lukaku joing Everton on a permanent transfer is not true. He is currently on holiday with his girlfriend and will return for pre-season traning on monday and has claimed he wants to stay and fight for his place.

I hope this is true,

And that probably is the long and short of it.

There hasn't been a word from the player or his agent for more than a month now...but this topic has been buzzing nonstop during that period..more than it should be.,IMO

[Stats 6,981]

And that probably is the long and short of it.

There hasn't been a word from the player or his agent for more than a month now...but this topic has been buzzing nonstop during that period..more than it should be.,IMO

This. His last words were down the line of him and his agent would see what is best for him. He might of sounded to big for his boots but he basically was saying he feels he is capable of scoring goals and starting and fighting for honours. He never exactly said he is not going to play for a team if he is not made the undisputed striker. So much criticsm of him but I guess we will know more this upcoming week.

If he comes out with the news that he is willing to fight for his place I think regardless of previous comments all Chelsea fans would appreciate that.

[xPetrCechx 13,548]

Romelu Lukaku is set to return to Chelsea for pre-season and fight for a first-team place, according to Sky sources. #CFC #EFC

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/9387734/transfer-news-romelu-lukaku-set-to-fight-for-chelsea-place-as-everton-enquire-about-christian-atsu