Selling Lukaku...

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He had to go. He was begging for Serie A and Antonio Conte at every opportunity he could. He even came out saying how he was thinking of leaving us from the second game he played.

All the best to him. Long may he continue with his 20+ goal seasons which culminate with a bunch of a pointing at where he wanted the ball and missing chances in the biggest of matches.
 

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Hehe not really. Although the gap is not big since we have only played 7 games and most others 8.
Thus we could bounce back.
A Lukaku in our side and our chances to win things would be higher.
That's simply untrue. Ole has a new style of football which just does not suit Lukaku a style were the forwards have to be able to link play and be able to pass a ball .
A Lukaku would be sat on the bench playing a Igahlo role and he's for sure worth to much to another team for that .

What sums up Lukaku best for me was my Everton mate saying for ages how much he hated him yet I'd say he scores all your goals he would say yeah true but he is the most frustrating player to watch ..
It took me about 6 weeks of going to OT to realise exactly what he meant . So much play stopped as soon as he got involved .
I hope he has a good career because he seems like a decent lad but I'm for sure delighted he isn't a United player anymore .
 

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That's simply untrue. Ole has a new style of football which just does not suit Lukaku a style were the forwards have to be able to link play and be able to pass a ball .
A Lukaku would be sat on the bench playing a Igahlo role and he's for sure worth to much to another team for that .

What sums up Lukaku best for me was my Everton mate saying for ages how much he hated him yet I'd say he scores all your goals he would say yeah true but he is the most frustrating player to watch ..
It took me about 6 weeks of going to OT to realise exactly what he meant . So much play stopped as soon as he got involved .
I hope he has a good career because he seems like a decent lad but I'm for sure delighted he isn't a United player anymore .
We are not using our central forwards that much in the game though and Lukaku does that role for Inter anyway. I don't see advanced play that could not be improved with Lukaku in the side
 

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The simple fact is - whether Lukaku could be used or not, we could not bypass on the offer Inter Milan made.

We literally recovered most of the money spent on him. If we kept him for a few more months we would have struggled to sell him for such a good price because he would have struggled more under Ole's footballs than Jose's football which was built for his individual ability.
 

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We are not using our central forwards that much in the game though and Lukaku does that role for Inter anyway. I don't see advanced play that could not be improved with Lukaku in the side
Martial is involved in loads of link up play which Lukaku can't do . We all have our opinion on him and you are entitled to yours . My opinion is I'm happy he's gone
 

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Was correct to sell him, but the idea he couldn’t play a role if he wasn’t sold is absurd. This isn’t Wengerball the team is playing
 

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He wasn’t right for us. Doesn’t mean he’s a bad player (he’s not), but his playing style isn’t exactly aesthetically pleasing. I never really took to him.
 

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We are not using our central forwards that much in the game though and Lukaku does that role for Inter anyway. I don't see advanced play that could not be improved with Lukaku in the side
He was here though and yes he scored some goals, but we need a better CF than him and Martial for that matter> Lets see if Cavani can do it for us.
 

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This isn't even up for debate, we received an excellent offer for a striker who wasn't playing well and didn't fit our game plan. Ibra was what 35 when he came here and outperformed him in an inferior team.
 

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He had to go. He was begging for Serie A and Antonio Conte at every opportunity he could. He even came out saying how he was thinking of leaving us from the second game he played.

All the best to him. Long may he continue with his 20+ goal seasons which culminate with a bunch of a pointing at where he wanted the ball and missing chances in the biggest of matches.
He’s a bit of a Higuain in that regard.
 

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It was 100% the right decision. He wouldn’t have shown anything like his Inter form for us. He would still be an unmotivated fat lump who didn’t want to be here.
 

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Hehe not really. Although the gap is not big since we have only played 7 games and most others 8.
Thus we could bounce back.
A Lukaku in our side and our chances to win things would be higher.
what he says below. You won't win things with Lukaku was your main striker
Lukaku hasn't won a trophy since 2011, unless you mean a prolific striker then yes, that'd be good, but not Lukaku.
 
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Horrendous signing. We were absolutely desperate to sign him in the first place.

perhaps if he didn’t keep talking negativity about the club and have some humility, then fans will start to forget how bad he was.

in 40 years, I’ve never seen a more unfit striker at United, aside from perhaps Falcao, but he was injured rather than having eaten too much and deciding to down tools. He was a disgrace.

I’ve said before that he clearly had the desire to make the best of his(limited) talents to get to United, and at that point he thought he’d made it, he was hanging out with Pogba in Miami and thought he didn’t have to try any more, when it was then he needed to buckle down and work harder. He went in the opposite direction.
 

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what he says below. You won't win things with Lukaku was your main striker
He hasn't really played for big sides most of the time though. For us we got really close to win with him.
In Inter he reached one final as well, but caused his own destruction in that one with the own goal.
Second best team in the world cup as well he played for. Very close from a world cup win as well.

His big game record is pretty poor though so he got himself to blame particular for us. If Lukaku had done his job vs City maybe we could have really challenged them for longer at least.
 

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Definitely the right decision to sell him and the right decision for him to move from us.

He is a decent midtable striker in the PL and a good striker in Serie A. He's found his level.
 

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He hasn't really played for big sides most of the time though. For us we got really close to win with him.
In Inter he reached one final as well, but caused his own destruction in that one with the own goal.
Second best team in the world cup as well he played for. Very close from a world cup win as well.

His big game record is pretty poor though so he got himself to blame particular for us. If Lukaku had done his job vs City maybe we could have really challenged them for longer at least.
And why is that? remember Everton FA Cup Semi against us? We were there for the taking, a shit Vangle team and instead he got pocketed by Blind. That was when I first thought he was sus.

Then only United and Chelsea wanted him, mostly because of Conte and Jose (who thought he was a target man). He has been available many times but the Bayerns, Real's Barca's City's Psg's, Juve's said "nah thanks."

Then there is the "golden generation" of Belgium. The best crop of players they have ever produced and not a final to show for it despite Rom scoring so many goals. Maybe if he could turn up in the crunch time they wouldn't be getting dumped out by Wales and at least make a final. I know its a team game of course but it annoys me when peeps point to his international record to hype him when Belgium get dumped out in:

WC 2014 quarters by Argentina (scored the ET winner vs USA which was his solitary goal all tourney)
Euro 2016 quarters by Wales (Lukaku not registering in the knock outs and 2 for the tournament)
World Cup 3rd KO by France (Rom not registering in the knock outs despite playing 4 times)

now I know its not just down to him as its a team game however his teammates enjoy massive success elsewhere so I do wonder how Belgium would fare with a Zlatan, Mbabbe, Henry or Cristiano up top in place of Rom?
I seem like a hater but he does indeed irritate me. He thinks he is so sick, is arrogant and I guess his goal record from a young age allows him to be. I would be too. But when you look past the numbers and read between the lines he is the most linear of flat track bully yet you have to build everything around him but the pay off isn't right. You get short changed somehow. He'll keep believing he is the best and talking about "chasing Thierry Henry record" despite the two of them not even being on the same stratosphere. He reminds me of Deontay Wilder a bit in his delusions of grandeur.
 

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The most disappointing thing about Lukaku was when he first signed he talked a lot about improving and working on things to make sure he’s at United level, and then just... didn’t.
 

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I like him better than most in here, but he is quite misunderstood. People expected a complete forward due to size and pace. Instead, he is very limited. He is very good at what he is good at. He needs to be used a specific way. Koeman knew. Conte know.

Mourinho, to my big surprise, did not have a clue! I actually think OGS managed him fine, but he did not suit him at all.
 

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Cannot believe there are people who actually think it was wrong to let him go. He clearly had no interest in being at the club, that was his biggest problem.

Yeah he scored some goals, but he should have scored more and he didn't because he ruined attacks more often than not.

He was unfit and overweight, a lot of the time his link up play, ball control, hold up play and passing were terrible and so was his finishing, his missed nearly as many as he scored.

Some stats from the Premier league website for his time in with Utd. The number of chances he missed is telling.

Games - 66
Goals - 28
Assists -.7
Crosses - 82
Chances missed - 26
Chances Created - 12
Avg. Passes per game - 38

Pass completion averaged about 65 - 70%.
 

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This isn't even up for debate, we received an excellent offer for a striker who wasn't playing well and didn't fit our game plan. Ibra was what 35 when he came here and outperformed him in an inferior team.
Neither of them were good to the level that should be expected
 

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And why is that? remember Everton FA Cup Semi against us? We were there for the taking, a shit Vangle team and instead he got pocketed by Blind. That was when I first thought he was sus.

Then only United and Chelsea wanted him, mostly because of Conte and Jose (who thought he was a target man). He has been available many times but the Bayerns, Real's Barca's City's Psg's, Juve's said "nah thanks."

Then there is the "golden generation" of Belgium. The best crop of players they have ever produced and not a final to show for it despite Rom scoring so many goals. Maybe if he could turn up in the crunch time they wouldn't be getting dumped out by Wales and at least make a final. I know its a team game of course but it annoys me when peeps point to his international record to hype him when Belgium get dumped out in:

WC 2014 quarters by Argentina (scored the ET winner vs USA which was his solitary goal all tourney)
Euro 2016 quarters by Wales (Lukaku not registering in the knock outs and 2 for the tournament)
World Cup 3rd KO by France (Rom not registering in the knock outs despite playing 4 times)

now I know its not just down to him as its a team game however his teammates enjoy massive success elsewhere so I do wonder how Belgium would fare with a Zlatan, Mbabbe, Henry or Cristiano up top in place of Rom?
I seem like a hater but he does indeed irritate me. He thinks he is so sick, is arrogant and I guess his goal record from a young age allows him to be. I would be too. But when you look past the numbers and read between the lines he is the most linear of flat track bully yet you have to build everything around him but the pay off isn't right. You get short changed somehow. He'll keep believing he is the best and talking about "chasing Thierry Henry record" despite the two of them not even being on the same stratosphere. He reminds me of Deontay Wilder a bit in his delusions of grandeur.
What a petty post!
I mean, does anyone think Le Tissier or Defoe are awful players for example? Both never really played for too sides or actually won anything, yet scored goals for fun.
Saying that because he didn't go to Real or Bayern belittles him is a little foolish.

He's a quality player, scores goals for fun, I couldn't care less that he didn't score against the 'big six' in the prem, he scored countless other goals to win us points. He's also scored goals for fun for Belgium, a ridiculous amount of goals infact, and has scored against England, Croatia and Portugal, hardly cannon fodder.
He needed to go as he was mouthy as you said, no one is bigger than the club, but he would still be scoring goals here if he was playing.
 

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He had to go. He was begging for Serie A and Antonio Conte at every opportunity he could. He even came out saying how he was thinking of leaving us from the second game he played.
I don't like him, but he at least said this after he left us. Delighted we got so much money for him (though it'll all line the Glazer's pockets)
 

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He was an awful signing for us and one that ultimately took us away from our identity as a club, lump it to the big man is and never should be our philosophy.

Now there is an argument that he’s more talented than a mere target man, but he struggled to even provide that for United at times with his first touch which became somewhat of a parody to oppo fans.

He wanted to go and selling him directed us back towards a more suited attacking philosophy. I was totally on board with Ole on that.
 

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He was averaging about 16 goals/season in the PL and regularly crap against big teams (even worse for us when he netted like 3 in 24 or something like that).

All powers to him now that he’s found his groove in Italy, but color me not impressed that’s he’s doing well in a league where 38 year old Zlatan or Ciro Immobile are top forwards.
 

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He's a quality player, scores goals for fun, I couldn't care less that he didn't score against the 'big six' in the prem, he scored countless other goals to win us points.
Countless other goals to win us points?

He scored 16 goals and 12 goals in his two seasons for us in the PL.

That's a goal every 179 minutes - Chris Woods had a goal every 175 minutes for Burnley last season
 
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Countless other goals to win us points?

He scored 16 goals and 12 goals in his two seasons for us in the PL.

That's a goal every 179 minutes - Chris Woods had a goal every 175 minutes for Burnley last season
Brilliant!

such a poor player, with an attitude that’s appalling and he’s so precious and thin skinned as well.

never seen anyone play for United that’s been so unprofessional. I honestly don’t understand anyone who thinks we shouldn’t have sold him, or that he ‘could do a job’.

he’s so unlikeable.
 

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He was averaging about 16 goals/season in the PL and regularly crap against big teams (even worse for us when he netted like 3 in 24 or something like that).

All powers to him now that he’s found his groove in Italy, but color me not impressed that’s he’s doing well in a league where 38 year old Zlatan or Ciro Immobile are top forwards.
I think is more a matter of each player characteristics, your equation is too simple. Very good Premier League players like Ramsey or Eriksen are having a nightmare in Serie A.
 

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I like him better than most in here, but he is quite misunderstood. People expected a complete forward due to size and pace. Instead, he is very limited. He is very good at what he is good at. He needs to be used a specific way. Koeman knew. Conte know.

Mourinho, to my big surprise, did not have a clue! I actually think OGS managed him fine, but he did not suit him at all.
Spot on.

I was surprised too. Lukaku is not Jose's type at all. He's big but not strong, regularly got out muscled by opposition defenders. Even Blind got him. He's tall but so bad in aerial challenge because he often misjudge the flight of the ball. I still remember numerous times when we played a long high ball forward he run to the ball, jumped and the ball was a few yards above his head :lol:
 

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People still feel the same about this? Scored 9 European games in a row for Inter :houllier:. Excellent game in the Nations League as well...
We are doing better without him and he’s doing better in Serie A playing for a manager who wants to give him a guaranteed starting XI spot without fight for your spot. Both parties have the same feeling which is happy, so why should we feel the opposite?
 

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Lukaku despite his burly frame was never meant to be used as a target man. Also didn't help his case that we didn't have a playmaker back then, most strikers would have struggled to impress.