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Yes and no. If you just remove him United would probably be number 6, but he is suppose to the best striker in the team. If he wasn’t in the team there would be someone else with the potential of scoring 20+ EPL goals per season.
Yup.
It's the last 10% that wins you the league though. Plenty of good strikers can score plenty against mid table sides when they get the sort of service they will for a top club. What does Lukaku do for us that any decent striker wouldn't be able to do? We need a special player who can reliably finish the one chance they will get in the games where the service isn't forthcoming. Lukaku isn't that guy. A Sergio Aguero would have had a hattrick yesterday.
Lukaku isn't overweight at all - did you see him shirtless a few matches ago?
Even when he looked bigger, he was never ever fat. It was all muscle.
Overweight includes too much muscle. I never said he is obese or fat, which apparently is the impression you have of the term "overweight". Lukaku in his own words on MNF in December: "I struggle with the weight thing and maybe that's just because of how I was as a footballer." And on the same programme Gary Neville said this about Lukaku: "In the modern age when you have 55 staff supporting every team, nutritionists, strength and conditioning coaches, I struggle to understand how a player can be allowed to feel like he has too much muscle or is overweight. Particularly when he's fit." That's exactly what I mean, he IS overweight.
I dunno - 25 is generally young, but Lukaku's a player who's been playing regular football from an incredibly young age. That's a good thing to an extent, but in the past it's also lead to plenty of cases of players who peak early and then burn out afterwards. And he's certainly someone who's already matured physically. Personally I reckon he's just about at his peak, struggle to see him getting too much better than he is currently.
Because Aguero is the standard, and we are Manchester United. We have always had, and should always have, at least one of the top two or three strikers in the league. Our top scorers from our PL winning sides:
Bit ridiculous to say 'what has Vardy done, apart from win the league' - that's literally our goal.
man said preposterous, you know. He scores goals but they come in patches that are followed by lengthy droughts. We are not about to rewrite this. It has been his history:
that article is from October last year so it doesn't even include his latest and habitual +10 games goal drought.
You're aware that our best strikers in the last two decades (and presumably always) have had precisely the same kind of dry patches? It's relatively exceptional for strikers not to....
the thing is, all them players offered a lot more than Lukaku does in all around play, work rate, assists etc. Rooney didn't even play as striker for significant parts of his career, and I have stressed that Lukaku's all around play is pretty lacklustre multiple times, if people choose to ignore context, that's not my damage.
Yes it's always a good sign that your argument comes from the right place when you ignore any evidence contrary to your view, and start off on an entirely unrelated point.
Rom scored two goals at Palace then another two last weekend (one which was a 90th minute winner) and two crucial goals in Paris mid week so that's six goals in 7 days and you're shocked he gets any praise at all?
Why so negative now? Im surprised to see posts like this in here after Lukaku's recent performances.
Again, not my damage. read the posts man, it’s all there.
Rashford?
agenda before anything else. we move.
Just realised that Fred should have buried the cut back from Pogba, who was rightfully livid.
They score all their chances? Do some of you even think before posting?
It’s a moot point anyway, cause most of our other forwards don’t even have the movement or anticipation to be there in the first place when that ball comes in. They don’t have the predatorial instincts.
I agree. Were on the same page but I'm (maybe overly) optimistic that Ole is the right manager to get the best out of him. He is a confidence player after all.
Completely wrong timing from him there. He was asleep and it pissed off Pogba like you said
I'm amazed we paid as much as we did for Lukaku, hope we get someone better than him this summer and it's crystal clear that he will never be as good as van Persie, Rooney, van Nistelrooy, etc. at their best. So yes we have a different opinion but ultimately we're on the "same side". The big difference is I don't take sides in debates as irrelevant as this. I'm more interested in what drives the discussion.
Spot on. Always find it amazing that people never post this crap when until we lose? I get the criticism of players based on the specifics of any game but when we win and he plays well (as he has done), grow a set and still post this shite. Nope the 'sheep' wait until the negativity starts, the vultures start circling and they all come out from behind their keyboards.
The irony being he actually did score a hattrick in that game.
Rom scored two goals at Palace then another two last weekend (one which was a 90th minute winner) and two crucial goals in Paris mid week so that's six goals in 7 days and you're shocked he gets any praise at all?
6 goals in 3 games was brilliant and all and i even praised it, but overall he isn't on the level. He's no rvn cole/yorke, rooney that we've had, or kane, aguero etc that we compete against.
Yep, like how if we are talking negatively about a player we don't rate, he was shite since 'the start of the season' where others we focus on pre Ole. Amazing people jumping up and down in front of their TV's when he's slotting in the goals against PSG (only scores against lesser teams) yet after Sunday, lose a game and he's only had a great two weeks.....Comparing Aguero to Lukaku
Yes players miss chances but there's so much more Aguero has over Lukaku it's not even worth the discussion. Sure Lukaku was great for the past 2 weeks but you cant ignore all the horseshit he produced since the start of the season.
