Romelu Lukaku claims he was scapegoated with two other players at Manchester United

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It was that he was a scapegoat, it was warranted criticism. He couldn't control a ball, he couldn't beat defenders one on one by skill or brilliant dribbling or create a moment of magic by himself.

Those are the traits we look for in a striker at United, they need not only to feed off other players pieces of brilliance but make it for themselves also when our backs against the wall.
 

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Yes, in relation to Pogba it’s 100% true but Lukaku and Sanchez were scapegoated because they were absolute dogshit. It’s an insult to Pogba that he’s even mentioned in the same breath as the other two.
You're right when it comes to scapegoating because unlike him and sanchez who were under performing, Pogba didn't deserve the nonsense written about him which is why I said especially Pogba in the post you quoted.

Though he's right about not being protected
 

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He should actually stay in the US, McDonalds, Burger King and other shit wonderland for him. If he's still there I hope airlines decline his boarding due to his excessive weight.
 

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I'd have more sympathy for him if he'd spent less time clapping other players when the ball was in play and actually following it up. It just felt like he was trying to play up to the crowd constantly instead of actually getting on with football. The guy cares way too much about the perception other entities have of him, look how he threw his toys out the pram when he felt fifa didn't give him the correct speed rating, and how he posted confidential stats of our training sessions when he was critiqued for being slow and out of shape. He's definitely one of the worst strikers i've ever seen at United, both in terms of attitude and technical ability. I really thought he'd kick on from Everton but he seemed to regress. He should never have been used as a target man and I was always adamant the only place he could do a job for us was on the right side of attack, because he did have speed and he had a wicked cross on him. However, he's just someone that should never have played for us and i'm thankful i won't have to watch him lumber around the pitch misscontrolling the simplest of passes.
 

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I would have assumed that criticism, like the ball, just bounces off him.
 

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And so it starts. He is going to be sticking the knife in every chance he gets. Shame he couldn't put so much effort into his diet.
 

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I would have assumed that criticism, like the ball, just bounces off him.
It seems that due to his massive mass he's got big gravitational pull, hence the criticism sticks to him.

At the same time the footballs seem to have some anti field around them.
 

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So that's how a grown as man deals with things.

- talk about another manager being the best
- leaks confidential info
- posts on social media after criticism
 

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He should actually stay in the US, McDonalds, Burger King and other shit wonderland for him. If he's still there I hope airlines decline his boarding due to his excessive weight.
Not too sure pizza and pasta land is going to work out too well for someone with his appetite :lol:
 

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Lukaku was the scapegoat?
Fellaini goes WTF.
Smalling goes WTF.
Rojo goes WTF.
Young and Valencia go WTF.

Pogba had a good season for us, I understand if he feels media made him a scapegoat. But Sanchez really didn't do much, being the best-paid player in the league.
Lukaku on the other hand pretty much needs 3 great chances to score 1 goal. I wish him best of luck in Inter, but for me, I'll miss him less than I miss Fellaini.
 

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Funny how the three highest paid players were scapegoated... When my business is underperforming we usually blame the cleaner.
 

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Very insecure man. Doing everything he can to try and convince the world he didn't flop.

(He did flop).
 

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Wait so he’s saying he played better for Belgium than United? So he’s saying he was shite for United?

I don’t get it. We agree with you Lukaku. You were utter garbage and was tossed out
 

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He actually made some valid points. I know people won't bother to take a look at what he said from a rational stand point but rather an emotional one(people hate him on these boards) but the bit about being protected is true. Same with the scapegoating, though this point in especially true in regard to Pogba. That man has been scapegoated to no end and it's still happening with Neville and the media trying to scapegoat him for everything happening wrong right now(although there isn't much wrong happening currently).
Perhaps if pogba wasnt as lazy, inconsistent, regularly dispossessed in midfield and incapable of providing any kind of real leadership then maybe just maybe he wouldn't be scapegoats. People who earn more in one week than the prime minister of the uk does in 52 should be able to accept a bit of scapegoating when they underperform, to be fair to pogba maybe he can accept it but then again he wants to leave as well.....when the going gets tough and all that
 

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Lukaku will score more for Inter this season than any of United's will score for United. @ me at the end of the season.
 

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He sounds like he posts on here using the national team argument..

The guy has Moyes vibes about him with his bitterness. Score loads of goals for Inter, win something and then he can talk.
 

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Without excessively attacking him for his very obvious flaws, it's just so easy to see how lucky we truly are to have shipped his ass off to Milan and gotten all of our money back. Guy is so unbelievably insecure its apparent just by reading those quotes alone that he is just not cut out to handle Manchester United, he's too soft and didn't have the balls to do the job required, now we're doomed to the fate of hearing him regularly moan about us like another Everton oldboy that didn't have the bottle to succeed with us, that's a lot kinder fate than watching him chase his first touch down Sir Matt Busby Way every second weekend. Ciao Rom.
 
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Lukaku will score more for Inter this season than any of United's will score for United. @ me at the end of the season.
He will score less against the top 4 there than Rashford will against the top 4 here. @ me next month
 

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Lukaku will score more for Inter this season than any of United's will score for United. @ me at the end of the season.
And so he should. Much weaker league played at a much slower pace, and he'll be playing for one of the stronger teams.
 

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Lukaku just wasn't good enough to justify preferring him to Rashford or Martial. He needs to get over his failure as a United player and concentrate on what he can control now, which unfortunately does not seem include a football at pace.
 

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The only player that’s ever scapegoated on our team is Pogba. Lukaku didn’t receive anywhere near the amount of criticism he should have. He was fecking awful all of last season but was sheltered from it for large parts because he was Jose’s favorite. You aren’t scapegoated you useless, insecure lump, you’re just not very good.

The less said about Alexis Sanchez the better.
 

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So him and his agent spend a year talking about how great Italy is, how a "Champion" like Lukaku would love to play for Barcelona, how Conte is the best manager in the world.

But he was upset we didn't come out and make a statement saying we wanted to keep him, even though it was obvious we wanted rid of the useless fat lazy lump?

He's the worst big game player we've ever had and his attitude and performances last season were an utter disgrace.

He's definitely in the Tevez, Di Maria, Heinze , Paul Ince level of cnut ex players who will be booed if he ever returns.
 

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What's really make me laugh is putting Pogba in with himself and that other fraud like it won't be noticed. Sorry Rom you were not good enough.
 

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Remember against Chelsea when he made one Sprint and then was out of breath for the rest of the match last season. And dude thinks he could be part of the high intensity style. He apparently realised he bulked up too much, but hasnt done anything about it.

Him, Pogba and Sanchez deserved the criticism last season (although Pogba was OTT). Glad the other two are gone or are going.
 

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And so it starts. He is going to be sticking the knife in every chance he gets. Shame he couldn't put so much effort into his diet.
Prefers sticking the knife into another piece of cake.
 

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Lukaku was the scapegoat?
Fellaini goes WTF.
Smalling goes WTF.
Rojo goes WTF.
Young and Valencia go WTF.

Pogba had a good season for us, I understand if he feels media made him a scapegoat. But Sanchez really didn't do much, being the best-paid player in the league.
Lukaku on the other hand pretty much needs 3 great chances to score 1 goal. I wish him best of luck in Inter, but for me, I'll miss him less than I miss Fellaini.
Pogba had a good 10 games for us which falls along way short of a good season. He was good from when ole took over until the first psg game when he was sent off. He was poor before and after that c.10 game spell, not sure how anyone could argue therefore that he had a good season.
 

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Out of interest, did any Utd players post anything on social media saying goodbye to Lukaku?

I can't remember seeing anything.

Fellaini for example, had almost everybody in the squad post something wishing him well when he left in January.
 

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Out of interest, did any Utd players post anything on social media saying goodbye to Lukaku?

I can't remember seeing anything.

Fellaini for example, had almost everybody in the squad post something wishing him well when he left in January.
Didn't think about that but thought they did so almost by default.
 

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Out of interest, did any Utd players post anything on social media saying goodbye to Lukaku?

I can't remember seeing anything.

Fellaini for example, had almost everybody in the squad post something wishing him well when he left in January.
That's a good point. Can't remember either. I think Fellaini was a really likable guy in the team, it was only the fans that hated the poor guy.
 

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Young and Lingard were probably criticised the most last season, especially towards the end of the season. Did he just not mention them because he thinks the criticism was justified as opposed to himself, and Sanchez?