With that logic do we take away our heavy defeat at Spurs as it was 1-1 until the red-card?
It's your perception that you can finish above us. Well that's your opinion though. We will find in 9 months time who finished where.
People who say it's between City and Chelsea are looking at their spend and that one won EPL the other won UCL, last season. But that is an incredibly simplistic view and thankfully football is way more nuanced than that, yes even with oil money fecking everything up.
Chelsea had a lot of chances to put games to bed last season if not for dire, profligate finishing. Even accepting Lukaku as a poor big game performer, he'll convert at a high clip against the so-called fodder, but it's not just goal tallies here. He's a good dummy runner and he demands constant attention even when off the ball, which will open the field for teammates and should, theoretically, see the attackers raise their output as a unit.
Or Serie A is worse than the PL?
Or a bit of both?
I think Inter had to sell, their owner have money problems.
Wasn't comparing just using him as an example. It's also funny because that same poster use to slate Hazard back in 2015 for not doing in the big games but rates Bruno.
No i was just using him as an example. All attacking players get judged on goals, assists and wha they do in the big games. I wasn't saying Bruno was a bad player.
Was he?
TrustinJanuzaj - Yeah he was, criticises players like Hazard in 2015 and Lukaku now VS top 6 teams but then loves Bruno, just made me laugh.
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Not really. He scored one goal against Juventus his entire stay in Italy, a penalty that he had nothing to do with winning. That and his performances at the business end of their European campaigns are why Inter fans are happy to see him go for a monster fee. I watch Inter almost every week. He's the same player we let go.
Man, that’s amazing how you remember that.
One of our closest rivals just sorted out one of their biggest weaknesses, I'd say that's cause for concern.
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Why are you lot acting like United fans are gloating?
It was a Chelsea fan gloating about how you always finish above us.The other posters are just pointing out how daft that statement was!You're talking to the three time, reigning, defending oppo poster of the year. Show some respect.
Its good you're here because the rest of your lot post like lukaku controls a ball.
Is Maguire crap too then? Go on twitter and watch endless fail tweets for Maguire mistakes. Would make you think he is a terrible player.
No because we have the pleasure of watching him week in week out where more often than not, he is class. The same cannot be said of Lukaku. That sort of stuff was what I saw all the time from Lukaku playing for Utd. I can't wait for Chelsea fans to also realise this.
His goalscoring record was solid for us, but lots of fans were happy to see him go. Ignore non-penalty goals and he only scored slightly more in Italy than he did for United.
So stats can be used to judge or defend players? What a surprise, I thought it shouldn't be used at all.
A lot of our attacks fell away with Lukaku up top. Intricate play around the box wasn’t possible but that stats doesn’t tell you that.
Most of that was the same as any other player if you looked for lowlights over a season, or things that didnt come off. There were some really shit touches too. Rooney had plenty of them, still scored a lot of goals
You can create low light for any player, including Messi.
It's ok to make mistakes, but I just can't get over his lack of self awareness. Makes a terrible pass then blames his teammates for not anticipating his bad pass and being somewhere else? It's infuriating. Wouldn't have him here simply for that reason.
I agree with the general point you're making but this Lukaku is a lot better than the version we signed from Everton. His hold up play is much better and he's lethal running in from the channels. He'll also be playing in a similar system to what he did at Inter and Belgium so the goal tally might be similar but his general game play is much better.
I'm assuming this is in response to my views on Rashford. I'm not totally against stats, it just gets irritating when posters use Rashford's stats as a way of absolving him of any criticism. You can criticise Lukaku's weaknesses by all means but he was voted Serie A's MVP and led Inter to a first title in a decade. Surely that's more meaningful than a meme video?
When he was here, absolutely correct but he's able to play more intricate stuff now. He's by no means Berbatov and still has horrendous touches at times but I've seen him link up much better with teammates at Inter and Belgium than he ever did with us. Who's to say he won't improve even further with Tuchel's coaching.
