He's scored double the goals of Morata. He's done it season after season in the EPL at a young age. Nothings guaranteed but Lukaku scoring plenty for us is close.
You're absolutely right. I think I already said it in this thread, but Berbatov won the Golden Boot and we won the league in a season where he didn't score against any of the top 6.
This.
So would I.
That was a funny old season. He scores 11 of his goals in 3 games, and the other 9 league goals came in the remaining 35.
Like every Belgian player has "failed" with Belgium? I agree he hasn't done great for Belgium, but they've underperformed for the talent at their disposal in recent years no matter who they put on the pitch. Hazard, De Bruyne, Lukaku. Hell, you had Fellaini coming off the bench and changing games for them at times.
Hence why I said not completely transferable. De Bruyne has normally been one of the better performers for the NT, fwiw.
Oops completely skipped over that in your post.
Good point, he is also still young. I remember people levelled the same criticism at Ronaldo when he was younger. Flat track bully, doesn't show up in big games etc. I think that will come for him in the next couple of years. But our problem last season was against the small sides and at home.
The problem with his goals last year wasn't even that he scored them against small teams. It's that they were not decisive
Think that would cost us like 160-170m. Not really convinced we would sign two strikers as Mourinho usually only plays one.
Yea, there's a stat about how i you take his goals out of Everton's games last year, they would've still finished seventh.
It would cost a lot. However, if we just look at just formation, Morata can play on the left of a front 3, like he did for Jose when at Real.
Nope, that's not how it works. If he scores a second goal in 2:1 victory, he earns 2 points for the team.
Well if you want to go by stats, especially on that website you've given, let's go for Llorente, Ozil, Benteke or King?
I think it's pretty safe to say Morata isn't joining us to be shoved out wide again, and I'd presume he's got those assurances from Jose.
Doubt it, they did it last year too, seems they're on holiday together quite a bit
So did Pogba and Zlatan. Jus sayin
Morata is joining us to be a starter. He won't give a fig whether its as a center forward or wide one.
Yea, probably. We just don't know what formation Jose has in mind and what players. Deep down I think he's off to Chelsea, however, I wouldn't be too displeased if he joined us.
HahaSo did Pogba and Zlatan. Jus sayin
Nope, your logic is flawed here, as I never said that they are good enough - just that Lukaku's goalscoring exploits are overrated (and he isn't good enough - or, at least, that he isn't on the level you'd expect from someone who scored 25 goals last season).
Flawed in terms of? Kane, Costa, Sanchez, Hazard...all play for top teams. When you put Lukaku in to a top team, you will get more out of him, in theory. Top teams spend majority of their time attacking, where as teams such as Everton etc will have a defend 1st, attack later approach. So Lukaku won't need to spend as much time in defending like he would have had to at Everton, so you can only presume, he will be available more in the attacking third and more potential to score.
Mourinho's Real played 4-2-3-1, not 4-3-3.
In the Hollywood Hills apparently. Probably for not much longer.
I doubt we go for both as it would cost about £180m, which lets face it would be a bit excessive, especially with Perisic and a midfielder still to be done. Morata and Hernandez would be doable though.
Hence why I said, no one really knows what Jose's main formation will be, in the coming season?!
Any noise about Hernandez coming back?
None. And its very unlikely he would consider it as he wants to play and isn't likely to play much if he joins us. Not good for a player who wants to go to the WC in top form.
Trouble is, Costa is a pretty loathed figure and many fans wouldn't welcome him here.
