KM
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Not a Harry Kane vs Lukaku thread. Anyone wants to debate it, do it a different thread.
Return to obscurity from which you came if you have nothing useful to add.Stop digging.
Pssst! If it's not a statistic that makes Kane look better, its not relevant to him.Take out the pens.
Last two seasons goals from open play:
Lukaku 23+ 17=40
Kane 25 + 20 =45
Assists
Lukaku 12
Kane 8
Goals and Assists combined.
52v 53.
Not much in it.
Equally as pointless as talking to a wall. Move on and have a nice day.right, so mystic meg stuff then? i'd hazard a guess that "3+3=8 if you're smart enough" reasoning is how most tabloids write their columns
anyway this isn't even amusing anymore. maybe you're right and we'll sell him to psg.
Spurs fans care. That's Spurs who's last 3 signings were Sissoko, Janssen and N'Koudou for a total of £58m. They once got Delle Alli cheap though don't forget.who cares really though?
The fee could be 100m and I wouldn't care, the only fans that tend to give a shit and cite fees all the time are the jealous ones that know their club can't compete in this market.
Doesn't Kane take a lot of penalties? Again, plays with better players too. Let's check that stat at the end of the coming season.Lol ... check the goals-scored-per-minutes-played stats.
To be fair, one can make a way longer compilation of such touches taken by the prime Wayne Rooney. But at the end of the day what actually counted was Rooney's bullish nature and knack of scoring goals. It was when Wayne stopped scoring and assisting that we all started observing and bashing his first touch and fitness.He's better than a lot of what is available right now, so can't really complain. That video of his first touches was pretty worrisome, but hopefully his other qualities will overshadow his shortcomings. And that video of him and Pogba shows that he's genuinely excited to be here, and I've always got time for players that actually *want* to be here.
You think so? I am not sure at all.Extremely similar ages and strike rates - Kane very marginally edges it on both fronts. Lukaku is more commercially attractive. They're probably worth a similar amount.
No on both counts.For a £100 million pound deal he's not technically good enough for that sort of money and in theory is like a heskey that scores goals .
I wasn't thrilled when I heard we had signed him but if you look at last seasons problems , it was killing the average teams off and we were drawing to many games against the so called lesser teams .
Lukaku has been labelled as "just scoring against the lesser teams " a tag that I have labelled him myself on here in previous posts.
Maybe , thinking about it he's exactly what we need right now to eradicate last years failings .
His record virtually gaurentees 25 goals a season and his goal scoring record for Everton against the big 6 last season maybe tells a story of tactics more than anything .
Everton surely would sit deeper against the big teams and lukaku would be be more detached , starving him of chances.
I hope he does well and I'm still convinced greizmann will follow once athleticos ban as been lifted .
If that was the fee don't you think the melodramatic sports media would be raving about a new world record fee?Never mind. You don't like the £90m figure. I get it.
What ! 75 plus 15 add ons plus Rooney ?? Mmm I make that around 100 million ??No on both counts.
For weeks we thought Morata was the priority. Hope same happens with Perisic and Matic.Hopefully we get that winger and midfielder sorted very soon!
Exactly the games we didn't win last season...Against Bournemouth. Exactly.
can't waitLooking forward to seeing the damage the Lukaku-Pogba partnership can do. People keep trotting out the line that Lukaku will be useless because teams don't give us any space in behind to work with. Have people forgotten about the number of times Pogba has gotten Ibrahimovic, Rooney, Mata, Mkhitaryan, Martial and Rashford in behind, only for them to mess up?
On the other hand you only need to look at his goals against City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs, stretching from right at the beginning of his Everton career to the very end, to see Lukaku can do it solo against the best in the league. If you look at the proportion of all of his goals for Everton that are simple runs in behind it's somewhere below 20% - similar to Ibrahimovic, Martial or Rashford.
If anything I'd say the likelihood of him scoring those goals is only going to increase now that he has someone like Pogba to supply him. The majority of his goals have come from crosses or simple passes around the box, both of which we do frequently. It's just that last season we had a number of players that kept missing those typical chances.
75 + 15 = 90. An iffy 90m at that given that 15m might not get paid. Even Glaston didn't stretch that to a £100m deal ffs. Might as well call it a £65m deal.What ! 75 plus 15 add ons plus Rooney ?? Mmm I make that around 100 million ??
the heskey quote was a bit tongue in cheek I will give you that
If you want to play it that way remove the £30mil we were going to pay Rooney in wages and say he cost £70mil. You can't just make up a fee for a player we have let go on a free.What ! 75 plus 15 add ons plus Rooney ?? Mmm I make that around 100 million ??
the heskey quote was a bit tongue in cheek I will give you that
Leave him be, that's his favorite theme. Along with Spurs being above United in 3 seasons out of 4.
Ha brilliant
Hilarious that someone from Europe (presumably) is mocking the United States police forceEh its America, he'd probably get arrested and shot for sneezing too loud.
I think Spurs would quote any potential buyers well in excess of £100M, using the Lukaku fee as a yardstick, plus I think they would do all in their power to stop him leaving for another PL club.Be interesting if Chelsea pivot and make a mega bid for Kane.
They can only have him in their dream.Be interesting if Chelsea pivot and make a mega bid for Kane.
Despite the cheeky nature, the point is completely correct. You can't look at the numbers involved as they're simply arbitrary at this point. What you need to look at is the transfer fee as a percentage of our turnover. Looking at it that way us spending 60 - 90m on a player is the same percentage as, for example Palace spending 32m on Benteke. The value is irrelevant, it's the percentage that counts to these businesses.
Yep this. The chances we had to put the ball in behind is an option we didn't have with Zlatan, we will now have that with Lukaku and Rashford off the bench.Maybe the impact of Lukakus pace is overstated but I don't think the lack of Zlatans is. Even the worst teams come out of their box for some portion of the game, especially as with Mourinho we're happy to sit back. With Zlatan any time we recover the ball we always, always give the opposition time to recover their shape before we get a shot off.