Romelu Lukaku

Would you buy Lukaku this summer?


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Toro; 25 games 12 goals
Dzeko; 26 games 11 goals

Kaku; 22 games 8 goals.

I mean its hardly awful compared to our own strikers, no?
1. We didn't pay 115m for any of those players
2. They don't make half the salary he's making
3. Noone here or they themselves ver claimed that they are top 5 striker in the world.
4. We all know forwards are our weakest link
 

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Narrative change, safe.
 
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Sure he’s underperforming but he’s being used as a target man at Chelsea. It makes no sense to use Lukaku as a central non moving focal point, his ball control and hold up play is not good enough under pressure in central areas. They may as well have kept Giroud if they wanted to keep playing that way. Lukaku needs to have space and as such begin from wide areas where he’ll have more of that to use his speed and also his crossing which is severely underrated. Conte when he was a pundit on Sky Italia said like 3 months aga that Chelsea were using him wrongly and he was right
 

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The system Chelsea is using him in isn't all that different from how Belgium uses him.
 
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Maybe he thought everyone over there was aware of what a big achievement it was what he did at Inter, but they're the CL winners, playing in arguably the best league in the world, so no one gives a shit over there about Serie A or Inter. Maybe.

And if true, he should have known ffs, he HIMSELF left Inter for Chelsea :palm:

I still love the guy & I'm sad cuz I don't see how is he going to turn this around
 
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The system Chelsea is using him in isn't all that different from how Belgium uses him.
System on paper may not be different but his role is. At Belgium De Bruyne begins on RW, he has the freedom to drift inside, Lukaku has the complete freedom to drift to the wide areas. Roberto Martinez was the first at Everton to even use him as a RW
 

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For 40milio i would gladly welcome him..
 

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Think Tuchel doesn’t fancy Lukaku and Lukaku knows it. But Lukaku is Chelsea’s best striker or Forward.

Tuchel should take most of the blame for the loss against City, instead of pointing the finger. Thought Lukaku was actually one of their best performers, which indicates how poor they were.
 

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must say the comments from Chelsea fans are funny to read...
I guess it is a fault of their management and Tuchel as well. You either play Lukaku the way he can perform or you don't buy him at all.
2 things are obvious:
1, Lukaku isn't happy with Tuchel => his confidence is low => he playes shit
2, Tuchel is not happy with Lukaku => he put pressure on Lukaku, which makes Lukaku unhappy even more....

Chelsea have a funny question to answer. Question worth more than 100mil, lol
 

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2 things are obvious:
1, Lukaku isn't happy with Tuchel => his confidence is low => he playes shit
2, Tuchel is not happy with Lukaku => he put pressure on Lukaku, which makes Lukaku unhappy even more....

Chelsea have a funny question to answer. Question worth more than 100mil, lol

You've just highlighted why selling him after Conte left was the right thing to do. And why selling Hakimi was a terrible mistake, since it could have been avoided.
 

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You've just highlighted why selling him after Conte left was the right thing to do. And why selling Hakimi was a terrible mistake, since it could have been avoided.
Yes, it was. But selling Hakimi was probably not a mistake by that time. Either they didn't know Lukaku will leave (and for that big amount of money) or it was just the excuse and they needed the money anyway.
Management said, that they didn't need to sell Lukaku, but they also haven't reinvested the money. Either they were suprised by that move and didn't want to panic buy or they needed the money.
 

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You've just highlighted why selling him after Conte left was the right thing to do. And why selling Hakimi was a terrible mistake, since it could have been avoided.
That is fucking Suning had to do as soon as possible. They must sell Hakimi because Suning fucking debt.

and our management promise not to sell anyone after that.

Then fucking Suning accept Chelsea offer, Marotta already said Lukaku is not for sale, but Suning is fucking need that money.

Marotta is the best football director in the world. He already stated only sell Hakimi, because in Marotta eye Lukaku more vital than Hakimi at that moment.

Plus only Hakimi had nice offer from other teams such as PSG and Chelsea at that time.
 

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No, they had to sell Hakimi because of Inter debt. Not Suning debt.
 

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That is fucking Suning had to do as soon as possible. They must sell Hakimi because Suning fucking debt.

and our management promise not to sell anyone after that.

Then fucking Suning accept Chelsea offer, Marotta already said Lukaku is not for sale, but Suning is fucking need that money.

Marotta is the best football director in the world.
Marotta & Antonello also said that we needed to raise 60 or 80 million that summer and cut [salary] expenses by 25%.

Sorry, but a prudent manager would have known that first of all Lukaku cannot really play in another system and second, since there was already a Manchester City offer, they knew that it was possible to sell him to a PL club for a large amount of money.

Major fuck up by the management here. Hakimi was the only one that did not want to leave. And it won't end here. De Vrij will be someone who wants to leave but Marotta will sell him. Skriniar was almost a victim of this but he rejected fucking Tottenham of all teams with their lowball offers. Brozovic almost left for free and it's not finalized yet.

Stop overrating Marotta for every little thing. He does a good enough job but stop making him some sort of Messiah.
 
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