Romelu Lukaku

ElDuccio said:

Icardi and Lukaku are totaly diffrent. Lukaku helps the team much more and is fast, physically strong too. Icardi can have a better finishing but in everything else he's below Lukaku. + as i said in my last post, he was always a cunt. I can't remember Lukaku asking for more money or acting like a child. He never was like that till the Chelsea offer. It was the opposite, he was always a team player at Inter.

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He never did because he was treated like a king by Conte Lmao. What is Lukaku doing now? He's acting like a child and keeps changing his story. In the beginning he said he couldn't resist his boyhood team, now he's saying he left because inter didn't offer him a new contract.

This guy is a manchild and always has been ever since he was at Man Utd, glad he's not here anymore lol

Candreva Crosses said:

Lets not forget Icardi works as hard as El Toro or even harder when it comes to pressing the opponents on their side of the field. Have you already forgotten the kind of mistakes rube have done when facing Icardi because of his pressing?

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Yeah but he never went back to help the team. He always "asked" for help but never did something on he's own to help others. I think everyone need to help and defend when it matters. That's for example why i liked Eriksen and also like Calhanoglu. He's not only a offensive midfielder that stays there and wait's for the ball. A lot of time they went back to save us. Icardi was only thinking of himself.

brakbrak said:

He never did because he was treated like a king by Conte Lmao.

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He was treated like that by everyone, even opponent fans. I know for example a lot of Milan fans that had huge respect for him when he was here. People can say he was good because of Conte, but it does not change the fact that he was one of our best players. And im sure he would still make the diffrence, even with Inzaghi.

ElDuccio said:

He was treated like that by everyone, even opponent fans. I know for example a lot of Milan fans that had huge respect for him when he was here. People can say he was good because of Conte, but it does not change the fact that he was one of our best players. And im sure he would still make the diffrence, even with Inzaghi.

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That's beside the point, the point was you said he is not a problematic player but the fact is he is, man utd fans called it long before he moved to us.

They were glad they sold him for 65-75m and we are glad that we sold him for 115m, no need for him to come back as he's just a cancer in every team he goes when things don't go his way.

ElDuccio said:

Icardi and Lukaku are totaly diffrent. Lukaku helps the team much more and is fast, physically strong too. Icardi can have a better finishing but in everything else he's below Lukaku. + as i said in my last post, he was always a cunt. I can't remember Lukaku asking for more money or acting like a child. He never was like that till the Chelsea offer. It was the opposite, he was always a team player at Inter.

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Guy literally asked for a transfer because a new contract wasn't offered when he was earning around 9m including the bonuses, being the #1 earner at the club and had 3 years left

Icardi wanted a new contract because he was getting paid 1m and was the top scorer of a team that was paying 3.5m to Vidic, twice as much to Osvaldo and the only people earning less than him were the Primavera graduates It took him 3 years to get to Vidic's level... He was one of the best players in the league and got paid that amount when he was already 5 years in, pretty much carrying us to relevance along with another underpaid man in Handanovic. But at least Handanovic was earning top 3 GK money in Italy during this time. Icardi was making less than Lautaro's current salary when he left and the reason he left was because of a rift with the management for a strategic reason, not his salary... He even extended his contract right before leaving in order to leave on a loan with option, to secure us from losing him on a free (in 2021) had he rejected PSG's offer in 2020....

As for acting like a child, have you seen the games? The guy was the definition of a manchild, yelling at everyone who didn't give him the ball at every moment, even if such as a pass was impossible! He was the most egocentric player we've had in years and it's out there for everyone to realize now with his words.


I'm really puzzled as to how you remain to ignore the actual events and have this story in your mind that reflects none of the evidence published thus far or any other information that's been available. I don't want to call you blind or a liar or anything, but the bold part is just remarkable coming out of anyone's keyboard at this stage, especially the money part when Lukaku himself literally just said he left because he wasn't offered a new contract!!!
Maybe if I repeat this next year it'll somehow end up being considered some sort of conspiracy I created, like everything else apparently, despite everything being out there.

If Lukaku ends up joining Juventus, that's probably going to happen because Wanda cursed him, right?

Candreva Crosses said:

Lets not forget Icardi works as hard as El Toro or even harder when it comes to pressing the opponents on their side of the field. Have you already forgotten the kind of mistakes rube have done when facing Icardi because of his pressing?

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Icardi works hard?

brehme1989 said:

Guy literally asked for a transfer because a new contract wasn't offered when he was earning around 9m including the bonuses, being the #1 earner at the club and had 3 years left

Icardi wanted a new contract because he was getting paid 1m and was the top scorer of a team that was paying 3.5m to Vidic, twice as much to Osvaldo and the only people earning less than him were the Primavera graduates It took him 3 years to get to Vidic's level... He was one of the best players in the league and got paid that amount when he was already 5 years in, pretty much carrying us to relevance along with another underpaid man in Handanovic. But at least Handanovic was earning top 3 GK money in Italy during this time. Icardi was making less than Lautaro's current salary when he left and the reason he left was because of a rift with the management for a strategic reason, not his salary... He even extended his contract right before leaving in order to leave on a loan with option, to secure us from losing him on a free (in 2021) had he rejected PSG's offer in 2020....

As for acting like a child, have you seen the games? The guy was the definition of a manchild, yelling at everyone who didn't give him the ball at every moment, even if such as a pass was impossible! He was the most egocentric player we've had in years and it's out there for everyone to realize now with his words.


I'm really puzzled as to how you remain to ignore the actual events and have this story in your mind that reflects none of the evidence published thus far or any other information that's been available. I don't want to call you blind or a liar or anything, but the bold part is just remarkable coming out of anyone's keyboard at this stage, especially the money part when Lukaku himself literally just said he left because he wasn't offered a new contract!!!
Maybe if I repeat this next year it'll somehow end up being considered some sort of conspiracy I created, like everything else apparently, despite everything being out there.

If Lukaku ends up joining Juventus, that's probably going to happen because Wanda cursed him, right?

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Youre right but we were not even in CL till 2018 so we had much less money. 2018 - 2021 we had much more money (now of course things are starting to look diffrent again because of sunings situation)

If this is true, why no one in the team hated him? Remember the players hating Icardi, like for example Osvaldo and after Perisic. Lukaku was loved from he's team mates. Everyone complains on the field. Dzeko for example isn't diffrent. Everytime he didn't get the ball he need to complain to Sanchez/Lautaro, i saw that many times specialy with Sanchez.

That's what he said in the interview with the contract, yes, and i also said that he made a mistake. So i don't know exactly what your reffering to. I said that at least Lukaku waited for till end of the season, till there he never asked for a new contract and was always focused on the field, diffrent from Icardi who was basically a legend in this section. And that's why every year he got no offers at the end of the season and we had to stay with him. If PSG was not there we would probably lose Icardi for 30M if not less. Lukaku left without making much problems and "saved" us from selling more players.

lukaku if he is so good would not have so many bad years in so many clubs. and against so many teams. guy is just good in one system one tha gives him a ball in scoring posiion where he will score 40% of time. big teams he can not score alot or at all because inter players can nott get them out of position because those big teams have as good or better players then inter so inter players have to worry as well. that is why in champions league with this so called WORLD CLASS we finished in uefa cup and out of europe in two years he was here why he scored against minnows 60+ goals

Thank you lukaku for shifting media attention from our new gameplay to your ego our players will play with less stress now esp liverpool game.
legend

ElDuccio said:

If this is true, why no one in the team hated him? Remember the players hating Icardi, like for example Osvaldo and after Perisic. Lukaku was loved from he's team mates.

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You cannot tell if players like each other from what goes on at a club/stadium level.

Does Zlatan "hate" Lukaku after he was provoking him with that 'voodoo shit' comments? Lukaku is also a big, strong fellow. If you're not happy with him, you don't tell him, especially if you know he's too sensitive and emotional. Icardi on the other hand is like some scrawny kid, one punch and he's down. So expressing negative sentiments isn't really a two-way street. Not that many people have the @@ to insult people who under normal circumstances would beat the hell out of them. Not everyone is like Vidal. And you cannot really burst against the coach's pet.

At Chelsea we know that he doesn't really have the backing of the players, but he's the new guy there. He's not liked by any fanbase he's played for and that list did not really include Inter until last week. Everton, Manchester United, Inter and now Chelsea. No idea about Anderlecht but it's been so long and it's different times now so they'd probably be ecstatic to see him return.

Cannot comment on his Inter teammates, I know he has relations with guys like Eriksen, Hakimi, maybe Bastoni and Lautaro, but you cannot really tell these things.


You commented on Icardi, the guy appears to still be on good terms with former teammates, like Lautaro, Skriniar, Vecino, D'Ambrosio, Miranda and Ranocchia. Not many others are left actually. We cannot really know if that's a professional courtesy or genuine friendship, just because of social media, news articles or what you saw in the pitch. All we know is that he had a rift with Spalletti, Perisic, Brozovic and potentially Handanovic. And perhaps with Marotta, although we cannot know if that escalated beyond Wanda's tense relationship with Marotta. In the past he also was on bad terms with Osvaldo, true, but that's 2 players out of 50 that played with him. Osvaldo caused problems everywhere he went. Perisic had issues with Klopp.. It's not black & white like that. There were also rumours that Jovetic also disliked Icardi, but he had denied it in the media. Even if that's true, that's less than 5 cases in 70+ teammates and staff over the years.

ElDuccio said:

Yeah but he never went back to help the team. He always "asked" for help but never did something on he's own to help others. I think everyone need to help and defend when it matters. That's for example why i liked Eriksen and also like Calhanoglu. He's not only a offensive midfielder that stays there and wait's for the ball. A lot of time they went back to save us. Icardi was only thinking of himself.

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Wut? He was a striker doing the job El Toro does but you call it selfish when its done by Icardi?

I see no reason to hate on either Lukaku or Icardi. Both of them are among those that delivered. But would I want them back ? Not really.
The way I see it ... if you can afford Lukaku you can afford Vlahovic and for me it would be a no-brainer. Also for what you would need to pay for Icardi I would get Scamacca.

Damageplan said:

But would I want them back ? Not really.

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The gist of it is this. We need new blood, not reheated food.

.h. said:

it never hurts to look at how you improve - Fergie used to say the time to strengthen is when you're at the top.

Our strikers have been poor this year. Dzeko started really well but in the last 10 or so games, he's been mediocre at best. Lautaro is starting to hit form but its taken too long for him to get here, I cant forgive him for 25 shots at goal 0 goals in the CL group stages.

I dont think Lukaku would do as well as he did under Conte, but i think he'd still be better than either of our current strikers.

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This is a bit unfair given how much these guys cost to the club at the moment. Compared to what Lukaku would cost. We are not talking about some loan + Chelsea pay half of his salary. That's not realistic.

And Lukaku was also somewhat product of Lautaro Martinez at Inter (in addition to being a product of Conteball). Lautaro helped Lukaku a lot to rack up those stats. Dzeko is the "direct" replacement, his role is somewhat the same (as much as we can compare the roles of these two) and he cost us NOTHING (some nominal fee at the end of the season), only salary is big, but even that's lower than what Lukaku's was back then, let alone now.

CafeCordoba said:

This is a bit unfair given how much these guys cost to the club at the moment. Compared to what Lukaku would cost. We are not talking about some loan + Chelsea pay half of his salary. That's not realistic.

And Lukaku was also somewhat product of Lautaro Martinez at Inter (in addition to being a product of Conteball). Lautaro helped Lukaku a lot to rack up those stats. Dzeko is the "direct" replacement, his role is somewhat the same (as much as we can compare the roles of these two) and he cost us NOTHING (some nominal fee at the end of the season), only salary is big, but even that's lower than what Lukaku's was back then, let alone now.

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so, I agree, Dzeko is a great signing value for money, no beef with that at all, considering the situation, he's been divine.

BUT, I dont think Dzeko is going to deliver the goods to help us move on in the CL. I dont think Lautaro will either, unfortunately. Too inconsistent - he might do one game, but I dont think we can rely on him in a consistent basis to be that guy who delivers for us in the hardest matches. I really hope I'm wrong.

Parking the question of Lukaku forr a second, I think our attack is our weakest area right now. In CBs, I think we've got a decent CB line up - maybe not quite semi final regularly line up, but not far from it. In midfield, we'll need time to see how Barella grows and Calhanoglu maintains form, but on the last few months, yeah, that's not shit either - I'd like a bit more steel in there for this level of football though.

Up front? It's a disaster. It makes me think of this meme:

.h. said:

so, I agree, Dzeko is a great signing value for money, no beef with that at all, considering the situation, he's been divine.

BUT, I dont think Dzeko is going to deliver the goods to help us move on in the CL. I dont think Lautaro will either, unfortunately. Too inconsistent - he might do one game, but I dont think we can rely on him in a consistent basis to be that guy who delivers for us in the hardest matches. I really hope I'm wrong.

Parking the question of Lukaku forr a second, I think our attack is our weakest area right now. In CBs, I think we've got a decent CB line up - maybe not quite semi final regularly line up, but not far from it. In midfield, we'll need time to see how Barella grows and Calhanoglu maintains form, but on the last few months, yeah, that's not shit either - I'd like a bit more steel in there for this level of football though.

Up front? It's a disaster. It makes me think of this meme:

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Lukaku had 2 seasons to help us advance in r16 and never did; Dzeko had 1 season with the same opponent and he delivered so it's abit unfair to say that you have no faith in him while glorifying a certified CL choker like Lukaku.

The strikers ur calling poor helped Inter reach the knockout stages in the CL with ease and are doing well in the scudetto. Dzeko even if he has been going through a rough patch goal wise never stops helping in the build up play or pressing if need be. The whole team is playing better especially with the addition of Hakan and Dzeko, they are the reason the team is doing better especially in the CL.

Lukakus problem has been performing in big games in cup competitions, until he can get over that hurdle he will maybe get anther league title in his career, that it.

I really dont understand this weight and fitness thing though, he goes to the UK and in a couple of months people [Garry Neville] are saying he looks like the Man UTD Lukaku, wtf?

brakbrak said:

Lukaku had 2 seasons to help us advance in r16 and never did; Dzeko had 1 season with the same opponent and he delivered so it's abit unfair to say that you have no faith in him while glorifying a certified CL choker like Lukaku.

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Dzeko is considered a finished player, his CL contributions dont count if he cant score 5 goals every game.

Back on page 340, I posted that Lukaku is shallow, all talk, only about appearances and has very little substance. I also commented on how he cares too much about what people think which causes his mental fragility.

I never expected him to confirm everything I posted in a single interview and his actions thereafter.

He greatly miscalculated on this one and wish him all the best, wherever he decides to ply his trade in the future. I just hope that it will not be at Inter because we are better off without him both in terms of on the pitch and his off pitch attention seeking.

Towards the end of last season, Ausillo gave an interview and made a good point about the nature of football when he said words to the effect that when coaches and players leave (referring to Conte, Hakimi, Lukaku and Eriksen), a club is straightaway given the opportunity to rebuild and move forward with new players. Inter were given this opportunity over the summer and it is very much a case of moving onwards and upwards. Lukaku left as he wanted a contract extension. It is better for Inter as a club to discover and find new alternatives than try and eat old Christmas cake.

Inter do need to find a player to replace Dzeko for next season but I hope that it will be a new player with whom we can write a new chapter.

brakbrak said:

Lukaku had 2 seasons to help us advance in r16 and never did; Dzeko had 1 season with the same opponent and he delivered so it's abit unfair to say that you have no faith in him while glorifying a certified CL choker like Lukaku.

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I'd rather say the team and Inzaghiball delivered it, tbh, not Dzeko. It's hardly like Dzeko carried us through on his back, didnt show up once vs Real, etc etc.


Irrespectively - back to the original point - do you think Dzeko and Lautaro are good enough to get us past Liverpool? For me, I think they're the weakest links in our chain right now. Dzeko 5 or 10 years ago was a perfect striker for this level and beyond, but not anymore