I say 11-14 league; 15-18 all competitions (best case scenario).
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If Lukaku and Sanchez bang in goals for Inter.....
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They will do better for Inter than they did for us. It's a much weaker, slower league. Lukaku should clear 25 goals. I could see Sanchez easily getting 15 if he's anywhere near his best.
No goal today for the donkey today, and he probably won't score for a while since their next 5 games are AC Milan, Lazio, Sampdoria, Barcelona and Juventus.
Alexis missed a relatively easy chance to score, and scuppered a couple of decent attacking positions. Lukaku was, well, Lukaku. We're being vindicated, so far.
Are you in Milano, @van der star
Alexis has only had 10 minutes or so tbf, but Lukaku will settle into his normal rhythm of mediocrity soon enough. Should be interesting when he faces his little bro.
Too early to say. Whatever happens I still think we made the right choice.
You could say that.
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That would be great. They'd be signing Sanchez for a lot of money the following season. Perfect scenario.
Yep. The same thing happened with Hernandez and Welbeck. For years, we were frustrated with them but once they left and had a few good games, people said we were mad to let them go and then quietened down again once they played like they did for us.
The reason so many quality players underperformed or didn't perform at all is simply the fact the quality players that flopped didn't suit the team the style we played or even get played in their best position.
Take Ronaldo and throw him in CB for Notts County, they lose 7-0 and Ronaldo has a shocker, does that mean he' suddenly lost his quality? Of course not and Ronaldo has given his best performances when he is allowed to do what he wants and that is tolerated because thats how he plays to his best and of course the team needs that.
So the likes of Di Maria and Sanchez with both with undoubted quality should have been accommodated in the team and given a similar role as to what they had at Madrid or Arsenal if they wanted to get the best or close to what they had shown before. Don't you agree they probably would have done at least a small bit better for us? It's has been a problem for years in that our squad is unbalanced and had so many different type of players that left our manager struggling to get put a cohesive team together never mind accommodate the likes of Pogba or Sanchez in their favorite role/ position.
Does not really matter, Sanchez had enough opportunities with us and did nothing so why would that change and I am sure that Lukaku will score goals in Italy but he is just not the right type of footballer to play at Utd.
I dont believe at the word "unbalanced", it's just a cop out terms to defend previous managers and even till today.
Whats so unbalanced about having sanchez, lukaku, mata, herrera?
They're footballers, not accountant.
A good manager can make them work, as has been shown with almost every of our ex player in their new club. They do a job. Not marvelous not grand but they can still do a job.
Our managers seems to quick to ditch everything under deadwood categories, sell them, lay out a grand design that took 4 windows to implement, while at the same time got the sack on his 3rd window
Ok so an unbalanced squad mean that there is either an surplus or a lack of players for positions required. So if you had a squad of 22 defenders that would be pretty unbalanced right because who would play striker or on the wing? So a team of lets say Harry Maguires and so in your words a good manager can make it work and so he picks his starting 11 of Harry Maguires ready to take on Barcelona. Looks like theres no need for any signings either because the manger can make it work even though the squad is unbalanced quite abit. Still dont think a squad can be unbalanced?
We dont have 11 maguires do we?
I don't care if Lukaku scores or not. It would be funny if he flopped given how much of a baby he was after Mourinho was sacked but I expect he will score a ton in serie A.
Sanchez doing well would be great. The better he does the more chance we can sell him next summer and get that giant millstone of a contract off our books.
Sanchez doing well would be great. The better he does the more chance we can sell him next summer and get that giant millstone of a contract off our books.
This has to come down to management. How to get these players consistent. The problem with our team, when we have 5/6 results and 2/3 players play well then contract talk comes into it and then it goes down hill.
We need to stop getting carried away for 8 good performances.
He didn't fail at manchester united because he was a bad player. He failed because he was in bad teams with bad set ups that often isolated him and starved him of service.
Irnonically the only reason Ole even got the job in the first place was thanks to Lukaku.
He wasn't perfect by any means but getting rid of him with the options that are at present left, was insane but I think the truth is he himself didn't want to play in that team!
He was easily the best and most experienced forward in that line up although I'll admit that might not be saying much.
Ah, this old chestnut. Surely his Timberland first touch and Neymarian work rate and attitude is all down to a poorly set up team with poor players.
Good riddance he's gone, if he wasn't black he'd be nicknamed David Brent. As if keeping a big annoying lump who complains at others while being useless would be a good idea.
If only we starved him off the pitch as much as on it...
I like that. I'm going to call one of my colleagues "Neymarian" ... he's a lazy git.
It's not like Ole forced Lukaku out of the club. Lukaku talked about playing in Italy before Ole signed for us. Lukaku talked about him hoping for Serie A play someday in the future. After Ole took over and during the summer Lukaku did what he could to get that transfer through. I'm pretty sure his next move was a full-on Odemwingie - turning up at San Siro, signing for either of the Milan teams.
Lukaku will score - he will always score, but compared to any top striker in the world, he's not good enough offensive to not contribute in high pressing. Lukaku isn't creative. He can hardly dribble. He's not good enough to play those one-twos we'd like to see more of. He's surprisingly weak as a target man, despite his size - mostly because of his first touch often force a tackle as his 2nd touch. When he gets the ball under control, with his back against the opponent's goal, he's not technical enough to do much more than passing it backward. This might sound a bit harsh, but I'll miss Fellainis impact in the game more than I'm gonna miss Lukaku. I was never Fellainis greatest fan, but he left his heart on the field. And his elbows. Every time.
Lukaku will score - he will always score, but compared to any top striker in the world, he's not good enough offensive to not contribute in high pressing. Lukaku isn't creative. He can hardly dribble. He's not good enough to play those one-twos we'd like to see more of. He's surprisingly weak as a target man, despite his size - mostly because of his first touch often force a tackle as his 2nd touch. When he gets the ball under control, with his back against the opponent's goal, he's not technical enough to do much more than passing it backward. This might sound a bit harsh, but I'll miss Fellainis impact in the game more than I'm gonna miss Lukaku. I was never Fellainis greatest fan, but he left his heart on the field. And his elbows. Every time.
Is anyone even sad that he's gone? I was actually happy when he signed him, guess I should've watched more Everton games back in days...
Sanchez banging in the goals could only be a positive for us in the sense we might actually be able to sell him.
The hate is interesting. Hope everything is ok with you in your life.
Hate?
He's an endless pit of comedy and I follow him mostly cos I want to laugh at his ego/ability correlation, which is something we can do now that we don't have to suffer from it. However, he's done more than enough to deserve disgust among the fanbase, club and players with his public flirting, undermining and exposing confidential club information.What's 'interesting' is the love-in for a lazy, self-indulgent mercenary who should be playing beach volleyball or rugby. You don't get a medal or become a top red for defending a waste of space who dragged the club through the dirt thinking he's Messi when playing like Ighalo. Hope everything is ok with you in your life despite having been told the truth.
I want Sanchez to do well because he is still ours. How Lukaku does is of no concern to me, but I do hope he flops after pushing so hard for a move.
I want Sanchez to do well so Inter will be tempted to sign him on a permanent deal, I've had no feelings one way or another on Lukaku's future career since it became clear it wasn't going to be with United. No amount of strife this season will make me pine for two highly-paid players who didn't want to be here, the regret is not replacing them with at least one quality forward in summer.
Lukaku has stated he bulked up on purpose for the World Cup. This was fine for the slower paced International game but an absolute disaster in the Premier League.
In relation to Serie A I think he'll bang in goals there as the league is slower and weaker but it means nothing to me. He behaved terribly to engineer his move and didn't seem interested in slimming down (cos he was still massive when he came back for pre-season this year) and didn't suit Ole's style of play.
Its a shame what's happened to Sanchez's form and I think he'll be lucky to get into double figures, even in Italy, but good luck to him.
This. It would be of great benefit to us should Sanchez have a good season. If he doesn't we are stuck with him for the rest of his contract.
Couldnt care less as long as they dont score against us.
Just watched that game from start to finish (won £200 as it goes)
I can confirm Inter were absolute shit - Lukaku worse.
Alexis didn't even come off the bench.
I can confirm Inter were absolute shit - Lukaku worse.
Alexis didn't even come off the bench.
Saw the Inter-game today. Lukaku was Inter's worst player today. The worst player on the pitch was probably the defender (CB) he was up against. And still, Lukaku didn't do much. Inter fans must be missing Icardi already.
If he has a great season at Inter we’d want him back.
It's a question of coaching and tactics. Certain players have certain attributes. That's how they are. Lukaku is not a Drogba. If Jose had tried to use Lukaku to his strengths then he would be scoring.
The same with Sanchez.
I have a feeling a couple of years down the line the will haunt us.
The same with Sanchez.
I have a feeling a couple of years down the line the will haunt us.
Couldn't care less.