Romelu Lukaku

[wyze]

lol guy leaves the ball behind him lol like i thought guy has no skill but speed but even that is not head over shoulders above anybody. lol i mean with him inter never got out of CL group stage and in europe they play speed physicality and technique

He is nowhere first-touch to be found, but do not make it like dzeko is a savior...

 

[.h.]

Because people here ignore his deficiencies?

I doubt that he'd be getting along with Inzaghi football-wise, to be honest. It was for the best. We're lucky that Chelsea paid as much as they did.

because in a weaker league, he'd have knocked in another 30+ goal season tbh. England is a tougher league, no matter how you cut it. If you accept he isnt a big game player, then he doesnt show up to 5 opponents for Chelsea, whereas here its really 1 (Juve)?

 

[dzekson]

He is nowhere first-touch to be found, but do not make it like dzeko is a savior...

of course it is much better stable attacker who does not rely on his speed because many defenders in europe or italy hs it but skill and passing

 

[brehme1989]

because in a weaker league, he'd have knocked in another 30+ goal season tbh. England is a tougher league, no matter how you cut it. If you accept he isnt a big game player, then he doesnt show up to 5 opponents for Chelsea, whereas here its really 1 (Juve)?

What's exactly tougher about it?
It's not really true though, he didn't show up for games that mattered here either. Doesn't have to be an important rival.
He also didn't show up for games that didn't matter that much, he had higher numbers because he was left on the pitch under circumstances that other coaches would have benched him from the 60th minute. Our superior physical condition allowed us to finish off games later on and he got his stats inflated for that. Lautaro was far more influential than him last season, pressed a lot more and he didn't have Hakimi and Barella playing for him as well.

This wouldn't have happened with Simone in charge. He'd not be as patient and I don't think without Pintus that we'd have this physical superiority.

Eventually people need to stop overrating this guy's tenure at Inter just because of the number of goals. When you account for % for team goals, it's not that high as you make it sound.

A reason why he probably won't score as much, ignoring PKs which we don't know if he's gonna take, is that he's a lone striker. And he's not a good lone striker. He doesn't have Lautaro to run his ass off for him now, guys like Havertz and Ziyech won't be doing any dirty work for him and all lights will be on him offensively. He usually crumbles under those circumstances, whether it is a big game or just a big spotlight.

 

[.h.]

They've got a larger number of near top teams. However you cut it, there is much more English success in (for example) the CL in the last decade in comparison to Italy. Off the top of my head since we won it there have been 2 or 3 English CL winners, 7 finalists and 5 different PL clubs that have featured in the final. Since we won it, obviously only Juve have featured twice as losing finalists. I dont think there's any debate or comparison about the competition at the top of the premiership vs serie A in the last decade.

 

[brehme1989]

They've got a larger number of near top teams. However you cut it, there is much more English success in (for example) the CL in the last decade in comparison to Italy. Off the top of my head since we won it there have been 2 or 3 English CL winners, 7 finalists and 5 different PL clubs that have featured in the final. Since we won it, obviously only Juve have featured twice as losing finalists. I dont think there's any debate or comparison about the competition at the top of the premiership vs serie A in the last decade.

A league is not revolved around 5 sides. There's 20 of them.

Arguably 12 of the bottom PL clubs aren't any better than the bottom 10 Serie A clubs, I'd reckon they're actually worse. The issue with Serie A is that there's usually two teams that are terrible, but overall the midtable sides are better in Spain and Italy than elsewhere, even if money is an issue. English clubs are terrible at managing their resources and building squads.

And games tend to be less open against top half sides (not in the past 3 seasons though), which makes them harder.

 

[eduzee]

Can mods please change my vote from "lgi" to "former"? i made a mistake.

 

[.h.]

I agree with everything yoy said but if you read my post my whole comment was about the top sides

 

[bubba zanetti]

So how he handled Van Dijk yesterday? Didnt watch game..

 

[brehme1989]

I agree with everything yoy said but if you read my post my whole comment was about the top sides

But which are the PL top sides now?
There's Chelsea, where he's playing for. Liverpool and Manchester City. You could consider Manchester United as well, but with Solksjaer as manager I think that's a stretch. But that's about it.

It's irrelevant if City and Liverpool are better than say Juventus and Milan/Napoli/Roma on a comparative level.
Teams like Atalanta, Sassuolo, Fiorentina etc will always be as tough to face (or more) than your average West Ham, Leeds or Leicester.

 

[Bergpavian]

It's irrelevant if City and Liverpool are better than say Juventus and Milan/Napoli/Roma on a comparative level.
Teams like Atalanta, Sassuolo, Fiorentina etc will always be as tough to face (or more) than your average West Ham, Leeds or Leicester.

Too bad we'll never found out because every time an Italian team faces an English team in Europa league and goes out, it's because Italian teams don't take Europa League serious and/or it's an English top team vs. one an avarage Italian team ...

Back to Lukaku: People really need to stop overrating this guy's tenure at Inter. In his two years at Inter he was just voted for Europa League MVP 2019/20 and Serie A MVP 2020/21 because this are popularity contests and he had some decent stats ...

 

[Glass box]

Lautaro will miss Lukaku's work more than the other way around. We relied too much on Lukaku cause he could do all the stuff he was doing.

Not because others could do it, but for whatever reason Conte chose not to. This is a stupid projection.

 

[IM21]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1434104302319112193

 

[Solfice]

I am a little bit bitter and hope he will regret the decision.

 

[eduzee]

Thanks Chelsea He's your problem now) There's no way Kaku will live up to his transfer fee.

 

[PHM1605]

So I told Inzaghi: Inter pulled me out of shit but I wanna leave only because of Chelsea

Wait, has he just implicitly claimed that ManUtd is shit?

Gotta stroll into redcafe to check their reactions.

 

[Sawyer]

I think he meant he was going through a bad time in his career and had many critics, which he did. Man Utd were not performing well and he was taking the blunt of it, english media bs as always made it 100 times worse.

Kaku should not be forgotten for what he did for us wether you rated him or not, he scored the goals, had the assists.. Wether you like it or not, we would have not won the Scudetto without him, unless he slanders our club there is no reason for hate.

FFP gains now, be happy.

 

[brehme1989]

Wether you like it or not, we would have not won the Scudetto without him

This is a ridiculously repetitive argument.

Pick one, they're all at least as valid:

We would have not won the scudetto without Lautaro Martinez.
We would have not won the scudetto without Alexis Sanchez.
We would have not won the scudetto without Christian Eriksen.
We would have not won the scudetto without Achraf Hakimi.
We would have not won the scudetto without Ivan Perisic.
We would have not won the scudetto without Milan Skriniar.
We would have not won the scudetto without Stefan de Vrij.
We would have not won the scudetto without Samir Handanovic.
We would have not won the scudetto without Niccolo Barella.
We would have not won the scudetto without Marcelo Brozovic.
We would have not won the scudetto without Matteo Darmian.
We would have not won the scudetto without Alessandro Bastoni.



It's a naive argument. Without player X, we'd have replacement player Y and he'd probably contribute just as much, depending on what his cost was to the club and what the cost to replace him was.

And the irony here is that Lukaku is the easiest to replace of them all due to the sheer cost to bring him and have him here... Please stop using this sentence. It applies to almost everyone in the Scudetto squad.

 

[bubba zanetti]

I think that without Darmian we wouldnt win scudetto, meh Lukaku and his goals when we are already two goals up.

 

[Alex de Large]

The problem is not Lukaku leaving, the problem is that his replacement is 35 years old and almost done.
Correa was needed anyway.