Romelu Lukaku

nelsonrivas2011 · Aug 3, 2021

https://twitter.com/x/status/1422608480146444288

Jacquez · Aug 3, 2021

PHM1605 said:
Italy didn't need such strikers to win Euro.

Look at the other areas and that's exactly my point. We can improve other positions in both quality and depth, and win matches. We are in the hand of Marotta, not Ausilio. There will be other players who step up and take his boots.

I have heard the sentence "Without Icardi we would not finish top6" like 1000 times and it could not be more wrong.

The euro's are incomparable to Serie A.

.h. said:
Berardi, Raspadori, a new RWB, and maybe a cheap player out of Barca (not sure who exactly but there must be some interesting options) and we'd still have money left over probably.

That depends on who that new RWB is, sure. And are we really hedging our bets on two Sassuolo strikers?

nelsonrivas2011 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1422608480146444288

What a tragic outcome that would be. Absolutely devastating, an embarrasement even.

PHM1605 · Aug 3, 2021

Jacquez said:
The euro's are incomparable to Serie A.

That depends on who that new RWB is, sure. And are we really hedging our bets on two Sassuolo strikers?

What a tragic outcome that would be. Absolutely devastating, an embarrasement even.

Juve won Serie A with freaking Matri and Vucinic.

Il Drago · Aug 3, 2021

vex said:
What's the haaland price tag, lukaku should be five or ten mil less than that coz they are that desperate

Dortmund are reportedly asking for 150-170m to sell Haaland this summer while Raiola is also asking for 20m. If you also add player's wages for the duration of the contract, the cost of the move reaches astronomical levels.

varmin · Aug 3, 2021

Where Berardi will play in 3-5-2?
I'd take Vlahovic (55), Keita (5) , Kostic (20) and maybe some decent RWB but unfortunately don't have something in mind right now.

.h. said:
Berardi, Raspadori, a new RWB, and maybe a cheap player out of Barca (not sure who exactly but there must be some interesting options) and we'd still have money left over probably.

.h. · Aug 3, 2021

i know this will be a bit controversial, but I wonder about a 3-4-3 with Barella at RM. He plays quite wide anyway, and with Berardi in front of him that might give nice balance. I appreciate its a more attacking formation, but hey. We've got 3 world class CBs.

BasedGodPunk · Aug 3, 2021

Saying “we’ll never get an offer for him like this again” is a real small club way of thinking. So naturally I give it 48 hours til Lukaku reaches London.

Jnr · Aug 3, 2021

Repubblica : " Inter said NO to 2x Chelsea offers, Marotta sells for 150M€"

Cash 150 000 000, do it Marina. Call to your daddy Roman and order green light.

cuba gooding · Aug 3, 2021

The reality is he is 28 years old so we literally will never get an offer like this. Also, this is covid era where most clubs dont have budget and therefore price of most players are plumetted. Meaning that we can have bargain to get good players if we have the money while others don't.

The most worrying part of course whether we will use the money to reinvest in good players or we just gonna get scrap for the sake of reinvestment.

Choppin Onions · Aug 3, 2021

Zapata? Are you kidding me. €40m down the drain. For a player who’s never done anything outside of a Gasperini system.

Vlahovic AND Raspadori should be the only options if we decide to sell.

.h. · Aug 3, 2021

i dont really want zapata - I honestly dont trust atalanta players after caldara/gagliardini/conti/etc

Il Drago · Aug 3, 2021

varmin said:
Where Berardi will play in 3-5-2?
I'd take Vlahovic (55), Keita (5) , Kostic (20) and maybe some decent RWB but unfortunately don't have something in mind right now.

Tbh with the amount of money we would get from Lukaku we can basically play anything we want. We can get one forward and stick with 3-5-2 or we can get 1-2 wingers and switch to 3-4-3. The thing is the whole point of hiring Inzaghi was to avoid making many changes and stick with 3-5-2. After selling Hakimi and Lukaku, this goes out of the window.

Kramerica Industries · Aug 3, 2021

Il Drago said:
Tbh with the amount of money we would get from Lukaku we can basically play anything we want. We can get one forward and stick with 3-5-2 or we can get 1-2 wingers and switch to 3-4-3. The thing is the whole point of hiring Inzaghi was to avoid making many changes and stick with 3-5-2. After selling Hakimi and Lukaku, this goes out of the window.

Hakimi was apparently already the transfer sacrifice at the time Conte left and Inzaghi was appointed. That "tactical continuity" idea was out the window before it even had a chance to be practiced. It's why it made just as much sense to go for Sarri and try and rebuild the squad in his image. Odds were, a total reset was going to happen regardless, so that Sarri obstacle - having to rebuild the squad to fit his tactics - was only going to be a problem if the club let it be a problem for them.

.h. · Aug 3, 2021

You'd have to assess all our CMs under Sarri as well, tbh. I'm not sure which ones would measure up to his expectations.

CafeCordoba · Aug 3, 2021

cuba gooding said:
The reality is he is 28 years old so we literally will never get an offer like this. Also, this is covid era where most clubs dont have budget and therefore price of most players are plumetted. Meaning that we can have bargain to get good players if we have the money while others don't.

The most worrying part of course whether we will use the money to reinvest in good players or we just gonna get scrap for the sake of reinvestment.

Yeah this might be the once in a lifetime chance. His age, his pedigree at Inter and with Belgium, Chelsea's big need for a real striker and BVB being tough with Haaland.

My issue is if we waste this profit to fucking zapatas and correas.

Verathia · Aug 3, 2021

Jnr said:
Repubblica : " Inter said NO to 2x Chelsea offers, Marotta sells for 150M€"

Cash 150 000 000, do it Marina. Call to your daddy Roman and order green light.

Even I, who bows at the feet of Lukaku and worships his every move, would take 150M€ cash.... that's wild.

But like our dear mod just said... what are we using this money on?

Kramerica Industries · Aug 3, 2021

CafeCordoba said:
Yeah this might be the once in a lifetime chance. His age, his pedigree at Inter and with Belgium, Chelsea's big need for a real striker and BVB being tough with Haaland.

My issue is if we waste this profit to fucking zapatas and correas.

Yes, I just want to point out that the whole "sell one player at a massive fee and replace him with several 'good' players" strategy is loaded with flaws. Remember when Tottenham did this with the Gareth Bale transfer money? Here's who they got.

Eriksen, Lamela, Chadli, Paulino, Chiriches, Capoue, Soldado

Eriksen (£11.5) was, of course, fantastic for most of his time at Tottenham. The rest of them?

Lamela: (£30M) 255 games, 37 goals
Chadli: (£6M) 119 games, 25 goals
Soldado (£26M): 76 games, 16 goals
Paulinho: (£17M) 67 games, 10 goals
Chiriches (£8.5M): 43 games
Capoue (£8.6M): 36 games

That's £107.6 in purchases for the ~£100 they got for Bale. At least £66M of that was purely, utterly wasted. They got great value with Eriksen, and at least Lamela stuck around for a long time, I guess. That's it. Most of the money ended up being flushed down the toilet.

Big transfer fees are only as useful as what you do with it.

.h. · Aug 3, 2021

But the counter balance to that is Liverpool with coutinho.

So, exactly to the point. The question is more about how to spend the money.

We need to separate this into two issues:

1 - Is selling Lukaku for 120m+ in cash worth it? Yes, it is.
2 - How do we spend 80-100m in cash well?

The two issues are obviously linked, but fundamentally separate. Selling Lukaku can still be a good decision even if we spend the money badly. Not doing something because of fear of the potential negative circumstances if it doesn't go well is a bad excuse TBH

CafeCordoba · Aug 3, 2021

Yes, exactly. And we need to still pay like 40-50m€ to United for Lukaku.

Same as with Hakimi, we need to pay 28m€ to Real for Hakimi. So all the cash is not even in our use for new players.

But I have some trust to Marotta still, but let's see how this goes. This is the place for him to cement his place as the best directors in the world. If it's zapatas and correas, well, that's not world class performance by a director.

CafeCordoba · Aug 3, 2021

.h. said:
But the counter balance to that is Liverpool with coutinho.

So, exactly to the point. The question is more about how to spend the money.

We need to separate this into two issues:

1 - Is selling Lukaku for 120m+ in cash worth it? Yes, it is.
2 - How do we spend 80-100m in cash well?

The two issues are obviously linked, but fundamentally separate. Selling Lukaku can still be a good decision even if we spend the money badly. Not doing something because of fear of the potential negative circumstances if it doesn't go well is a bad excuse TBH

Of course but doing the good thing is totally negated by the bad thing because like you said, they are obviously linked.

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Yes, there are no better alternatives

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No, he didn't play well enough last season

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