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Been thinking about this since yesterday. None right now. Generally no one has pace like him with that physique.
13 goals and 6 assists. If he can get 20 goals and 10 assists that would be superb season.
His dribbling in FIFA isn't good though so he won't be broken.
Completely agree with that. We need to use him to his strengths, and he can do damage to any defense.
He did score one right at the end though.
He went up and down during the game. I'm not sure why but there were times when he was stood completely still not even half interested in making a run, and sometimes he was off into the channels where he should be. For him to really reach his potential with us I think he might need to lose a bit of his size so he can run at maximum effort for the full 90 mins.
)To be fair he has to do it consistently for a whole season to be regarded a good signing given his price tag.
50% of the time would be great in fairness.
Again it goes back to the price tag. I'd expect goal returns of Kane, Lewandowski, Aguero & Cavani given what we paid for him.
One in two is a great record as a striker
Indeed but as the main man of United, we should be expecting more. Higuain and Suarez could also be added to that list.
Can he improve? Yes, he definitely can but he has made improvements as a player since joining, but some refuse to acknowledge this. I completely agree that he has deserved criticism at times but there's criticism and there's blatant agendas. The latter is what I take umbrage with. He could potentially finish the season with 30+ goals and maybe 10 assists. That's a pretty fantastic first season in a team that have a seriously disjointed attack. But again, I agree that he does need to improve further and he's far from the complete player but the anti-Lukaku agendas are tiresome.
Aye, yesterday's performance was one we've missed for years now - one of our big names stepping up against the top 6 and contributing match winning performances/goals for us.
But you don't get Kane for 75 Million, some team will pay around 200 Million for him. Lukaku will cost half or one third of Kane's price. So going by price tag logic, he should be scoring half of what Kane scores.
I don't think it is anymore. The level has risen drastically. 1 in 2 would mean that scoring 19 goals in 38 games is a great return, realistically 19 goals won't win you the golden boot anymore.
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There's a lot more than four big teams in Europe, so singling out the four most prolific strikers in Europe as an example of "expected" returns makes no sense.
To be fair, that's not true at all. He directly contributed to us winning an awful lot of games in EPL, either by scoring or assisting. He needs to be proper no. 9 without scoring? When it comes to strikers and assist, he and Firminho are joint top in the league with 6.
Mate, it was all planned. Flick it up, headbutt Christensen just enough to floor him but not concede a foul, cheeky lay off to Alexis, Martial crazy legs, one touch, boom.He played well but you have to laugh at his goal. His first touch in that move somehow almost ended up going over his own head
What a player he could be if he can improve that area of his game.
I guess i misinterpreted the posters meaning of "great" record. Shouldn't a great record mean it's the best of the best?
don't know what era you are living in but your as 'great' as your competition. This is no knock on Rom, that there are multiple attackers across many different leagues average almost a goal per game. that would put it as a 'good' record not great.
You have to put that in context, how good the team is or whether they play attacking or cautious game. Players don't score so many goals in all set ups. For example, Klopp's set up is attackers dream, so is Pep's.
Very interesting
great well backed up post cheers @RedStarUnited might just have altered my opinion. I’m away to look at others strikers than 4 top ones mentioned.Should have pulled it back to find the trailing man but full marks for being a much needed outlet at that point in the game
He wasn't even terrible during that part really. He was bad in some games but most of the time he was contributing to our play. Just didn't get lots of chances to shoot. We've done better since 2018 in creating chances for him.
