serious, IIRC I wanted us to keep Chicharito or sign up someone short term like Llorente at the time. Lukaku is a better player than Benteke was at that point, but they both suffer from indifferent workrate, inconsistent touch, and poor hold up play. I hope it works out better for us than it did for Liverpool.
They all count...Rashford can't even keep the ball, Martial is not scoring, Ibra is done until January, RM wanted to play tummy sticks instead of dealing Morata......so Luk may look clumsy, but he scores.
Nonsense, players can come in anytime before the end of August and title chances remain the same. What matters is if the player fit the group.
I'm very sure Pogba have a big role here influencing Lukaku, they're close friends.I'm comparison to other teams we aren't doing too bad for transfers at the minute. Take at look at Chelsea and the progress made after multiple bids for a few players, Manchester City as well, although they have signed Bernardo silva, not much else has happened with them. Barca and real Madrid haven't made much movement either and from what the media report they only have one main target each, verrati for barca and mbappe for Madrid.
Does nothing at international level, hasn't shown outstanding class across opponents in the league, has zero champions league pedigree. Sound logic indeed.
We have been in a rebuild for a few years now and our team was no where near complete before Jose took over. Even after one transfer window with Jose we where still behind Chelsea, City, Spurs and Arsenal. We are the ones catching up we needed to get the players in early to bed them in rather than later it takes time to settle into a new city you don't just move and you are good to go. Woody has had the list since march there is no excuse to only have 1 players singed before the tour. It will take a couple of months for the players to adapt to life in Manchester and gel with the team we don't have that luxury which is why we should have signed 3 of our targets before the tour.
He's actually scored 20 goals for Belgium, and was fourth and second top scorer in the league in the last two seasons.
THIS. I don't understand why technique is so big concern when guy score 25 goals per season in a age 23. I don't care even if he have wooden prosthetic leg if he scores 25 goals. It simply doesn't matter in that scenario.
What are you talking about? The guy's the second highest scorer in the league. Has been banging them in consistently for 3 years at least and is proven for Belgium. But he does not have the mental strength?!
You keep spewing more bollocks and ignoring facts. Chelsea came 10th the season prior, brought KEY players in mid July and last day of transfer window and won the league.
That's just ridiculous.
The season before they came 10th due to Jose losing the dressing room they came 1st. The season after they came 10th they came 1st. That's 1st, 10th then 1st. They have a fantastic team and are ahead of us if you can't see we are playing catch up then you can't be helped.
They'll all pretend now that he's a shit donkey and they never wanted him to begin with.
He has a lot of goals in the league, too. Doing something at international level is looking like a star when it's time to step up.
He is not proven for Belgium, see above. The pl goals are not the barometer for excellence. It means he's a good premier league striker. Great. Can he go up the levels required or are you saying the product that he is is satisfactory for the outlay?
Middle paragraph is great. Exactly what would make him a great signing. Problem is, he doesn't have their technical brilliance where you look at him and think it's only a matter of time.
Like who? The market is pretty dry for elite strikers at the moment.
Combination football is standard practice for the elite strikers and it enables everyone around them. That he is well short of the standard there is a major concern as it won't just affect him but the whole attack, which is not the direction I hoped we'd go in. Mourinho's donkeys have never actually been donkeys - just big men who could rough it with the best of them, so it makes me pensive unless we're getting another striker in, too.
Eden Hazard plays in the same team and does nothing at international level as well.
Yes, but you make waves and up your price to the player (wages) until he's thinking about it or demanding a wage increase. If that fails, fair enough.
And?
Goals don't count unless the striker beats 3 players, does 5 stepovers, lobs the ball in the air and bicycle kicks it in. Of course.
And what elite talent is available at the minute that we could get?
Some people will find a way to complain even if season sign Messi or Ronaldo.
Last season he scored against Shitty, Spurs and Arsenal. The season before he scored against Liverpool, Shitty and Chelsea (2 goals).
FFS, already
We signed Mkhitaryan before preseason even started yet it took him months to be 'ready'. We signed Pogba after the start of the season and he was 'ready' to play from the off.
