Zlatan on Lukaku

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Zlatan spoke to Italian Media and brought up a little bet he challenged Rom to:wenger:

‘I’ll give you £50 for every decent first touch you make': Zlatan reveals Lukaku snubbed bet
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Zlatan is so ruthless. :D I bet Lukaku felt like an amateur player when watching Ibra in training.
 

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Even the "joking aside" part sounds like a bit of a dig:

Joking aside, Lukaku has this mad hunger to prove himself to the world
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Zlatan had always been an ahole. He used to have arguments with Allegri because the players at Milan weren't as good as he was.
 

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Vidyoyo said:
Am I mad for not remembering a time these two played together?
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Zlatan was around in Lukaku's first season but was rehabilitating from the ACL injury. He left by the second half of the season.
 

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el3mel said:
Zlatan was around in Lukaku's first season but was rehabilitating from the ACL injury. He left by the second half of the season.
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Catt said:
Didn't Zlatan play at United from 2016-17 and Lukaku came when Zlatan left?
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I checked — they both played at the club in 2017. Obviously Zlatan was recovering from his injury towards the beginning of that but I don't remember them playing together at any point. Then again, they both played in the same position so it probably didn't happen very often.
 

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That’s a load of shit

Title deliberately ignores that zlatan then goes on to say that Lukaku has an incredible desire to improve
 

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Vidyoyo said:
I checked — they both played at the club in 2017. Obviously Zlatan was recovering from his injury but I can't remember them playing together at any point. Then again, they both played in the same position so it's not a huge surprise.
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They did played together. We tested Zlatan in number 10 position behind Lukaku and it didn't work.
 

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Zlatan and Lukaku in the same one touch drills would be an absolute hoot to watch.

Like pairing a pianist with a 6 year old holding a tambourine
 

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We went from 6th to Ibrahimovic up top, to 2nd with Lukaku up top.

People can say what they say about Rom, and I'm not even a massive fan, but he's a proven goalscorer.
 

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Vidyoyo said:
Yep, Rom was genuinely good in Jose's first season. He only got really shit when Ole came in.
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He went to shit when we started to play a 433, which meant he had to get involved in our build up play a lot more, and was slightly exposed because of his poor link up play. Obviously that was done to suit Pogba, but Rom has always been better with a 10 behind him and wingers to provide balls into the box for him.
 

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Walters_19_MuFc said:
He went to shit when we started to play a 433, which meant he had to get involved in our build up play a lot more, and was slightly exposed because of his poor link up play. Obviously that was done to suit Pogba, but Rom has always been better with a 10 behind him and wingers to provide balls into the box for him.
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Which, in fairness, is something Mourinho wanted to address via Perisic.
 

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Walters_19_MuFc said:
We went from 6th to Ibrahimovic up top, to 2nd with Lukaku up top.

People can say what they say about Rom, and I'm not even a massive fan, but he's a proven goalscorer.
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We won the Europa League and the League Cup with Zlatan upfront. We won nothing with Lukaku there.
 

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devilish said:
Zlatan had always been an ahole. He used to have arguments with Allegri because the players at Milan weren't as good as he was.
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Shows his winners mentality. He was right about the Milan players being shit. Zlatan wants to win.

Could use some of that mentality in the Manchester United squad.
 

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Stadjer said:
Shows his winners mentality. He was right about the Milan players being shit. Zlatan wants to win.

Could use some of that mentality in the Manchester United squad.
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Scholes and Ronaldo played with the likes of the Neville's, Oshea and Co. You don't see them ridiculing them
 

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Walters_19_MuFc said:
We went from 6th to Ibrahimovic up top, to 2nd with Lukaku up top.

People can say what they say about Rom, and I'm not even a massive fan, but he's a proven goalscorer.
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Yet Zlatan still scored more than him, so unsure what your point is here.
 

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el3mel said:
They did played together. We tested Zlatan in number 10 position behind Lukaku and it didn't work.
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They barely shared the same pitch, to be fair. The longest they played together was the 1st half in a draw against Burnley, which was Zlatan's final game for us and the only game they started together.

Zlatan came on as a 2nd half sub in 4 other games for 10 or 15 mins.

Zlatan also started the game against Bristol City. Lukaku came on as a sub later, which there was a few minutes overlap.
 

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OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
They barely shared the same pitch, to be fair. The longest they played together was the 1st half in a draw against Burnley, which was Zlatan's final game for us and the only game they started together.

Zlatan came on as a 2nd half sub in 4 other games for 10 or 15 mins.

Zlatan also started the game against Bristol City. Lukaku came on as a sub later, which there was a few minutes overlap.
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We stopped testing the number 10 thing after that first half with Burnley, which was right anyway. He looked extremely slow and out of pace in this half.
 
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