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We have not lost that much apart from him. I guess Matic, Lingard and Mata have dropped off in quality. Pogba too I guess although he is very much up and down. Smalling is a miss too, but Maguire has done well.

I am sure we would be higher up the table with Lukaku in our team since we are not scoring enough goals.
The difference is De Gea, he reverted to the mean. His save percentage was outrageous in 2017-2018.
 

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Lukaku played 14 of 15 matches this season

11 in the league 3 in CL

he has this score

9 goals in the ligue 0 goals in Champions League ( where the game is tougher )

3 of the goals scored in the ligue are penalties

if you remove the penalties he has scored 1 goal every 220 minutes

3 tap ins, 1 header , 1 decent goal , 1 goal outside the box

overall his numbers look decent but he played like crap , already missed at least 7 or 8 easy goals
Get used to it.
 

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Martial is not good enough to play 90 minutes every game, so his fewer minutes are understandable compared to Lukaku's. But I asked this question earlier but got no response, let's assume Martial still has 4 years on his contract to run, in your estimation, how much would United get for him on the market at the moment?
Martial was better than Lukaku but Jose preferred Lukaku, not that they played same position but Lukaku played every game even though his performance was poor.

How much Martial would get? I don’t know, it all depends on which club wants him.
 

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We have not lost that much apart from him. I guess Matic, Lingard and Mata have dropped off in quality. Pogba too I guess although he is very much up and down. Smalling is a miss too, but Maguire has done well.

I am sure we would be higher up the table with Lukaku in our team since we are not scoring enough goals.
Lukaku played every game last season till Jose got sacked and we were 6th or 7th at that time.
 

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Lukaku has always been a good (not brilliant) goalscorer and I believe that peak Lukaku would get a bit more away with his limitations because he could be a lonely force and make some real chaos on his day. The overweight and static Lukaku of last season didn’t even score much, which made him pretty useless. Rooney had the skillset, finishing and smartness to be a very good goalscorer, but wanted to contribute all over the pitch, which often left him in positions far from the goal. Most of all Rooney was a brilliant team player who was easy to play with and made other players better, hence why Rooney still could be brilliant scoring 15 goals, whilst Lukaku could be average scoring 27..
 
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Lukaku has always been a good (not brilliant) goalscorer and I believe that peak Lukaku would get a bit more away with his limitations because he could be a lonely force and make some real chaos on his day. The overweight and static Lukaku of last season didn’t even score much, which made him pretty useless. Rooney had the skillset, finishing and smartness to be a very good goalscorer, but wanted to contribute all over the pitch, which often left him in positions far from the goal. Most of all Rooney was a brilliant team player who was easy to play with and made other players better, hence why Rooney still could be brilliant scoring 15 goals, whilst Lukaku could be average scoring 27..
he has always been a good goal scorer against shitty teams

i have made a check on it and with manchester united in his best season he scored 16 goals ( i don't even take into account europa league or national cups ) of whom only 1 against a valuable team
 

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“Solskjaer has my eternal respect. He understood me when I said in March that it was time for me to leave England,” Lukaku told Het Belang van Limburg.

“I have been in the Premier League as an 18-year-old boy and now I am 26. Solskjaer wanted to keep me, but I was ready for something new.”
Hopefully this ends all the speculation on the CAF that Ole forced Romelu out.

For the umpteenth time, selling him was the right move, not replacing him, dumb.
 

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Lukaku played 14 of 15 matches this season

11 in the league 3 in CL

he has this score

9 goals in the ligue 0 goals in Champions League ( where the game is tougher )

3 of the goals scored in the ligue are penalties

if you remove the penalties he has scored 1 goal every 220 minutes

3 tap ins, 1 header , 1 decent goal , 1 goal outside the box

overall his numbers look decent but he played like crap , already missed at least 7 or 8 easy goals
So nothing's changed then. He'll score a decent amount of goals, but rarely against the top sides, while annoying fans because he plays like crap most times.
 

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Seriously, reading some of the reactions on here, you'd think he's a perennial flop. If you play him the way he should be played and don't expect him to be the second coming of Brazilian Ronaldo, he's a more than capable striker. Look at his goal today for the Belgian NT; it was quality.

I alsof feel like Conte is happy with him. He scores goals and that's what he's there to do. If inter wanted a slick passing forward, they'd have bought someone else.
 

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"Thanks to my football intelligence, I integrated easily" An Illusion! What are you hiding?
To be fair, that may be all he has. I keep trying to think of what it is that's the reason for him scoring, because it's not being good with a football at his feet.
 

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We should never have sold him even if he wanted to leave. Golden boot winner for sure if he would have stayed.
 

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To be fair, that may be all he has. I keep trying to think of what it is that's the reason for him scoring, because it's not being good with a football at his feet.
If integration means scoring goals against minor teams then yeah, even his arse can score a goal but my god didn't He ruin a lot of attack transition. Maybe He's also good at making friends.

 
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We should never have sold him even if he wanted to leave. Golden boot winner for sure if he would have stayed.
Golden chips winner maybe.

He would never have won the golden boot, even if he was a starter. Wouldn’t have been anywhere near first choice under OGS (thank Christ!) he wouldn’t have started most matches, he would have been behind Rashford and Martial and only played when Martial was out - that’s why he wanted out.
 

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Golden chips winner maybe.

He would never have won the golden boot, even if he was a starter. Wouldn’t have been anywhere near first choice under OGS (thank Christ!) he wouldn’t have started most matches, he would have been behind Rashford and Martial and only played when Martial was out - that’s why he wanted out.
Read that guy’s last few posts in this thread, it’s obvious he is WUM/Troll, at least in this thread.
 

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Lukaku played 14 of 15 matches this season

11 in the league 3 in CL

he has this score

9 goals in the ligue 0 goals in Champions League ( where the game is tougher )

3 of the goals scored in the ligue are penalties

if you remove the penalties he has scored 1 goal every 220 minutes

3 tap ins, 1 header , 1 decent goal , 1 goal outside the box

overall his numbers look decent but he played like crap , already missed at least 7 or 8 easy goals
Sounds about right
 

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Lukaku played 14 of 15 matches this season

11 in the league 3 in CL

he has this score

9 goals in the ligue 0 goals in Champions League ( where the game is tougher )

3 of the goals scored in the ligue are penalties

if you remove the penalties he has scored 1 goal every 220 minutes

3 tap ins, 1 header , 1 decent goal , 1 goal outside the box

overall his numbers look decent but he played like crap , already missed at least 7 or 8 easy goals
Removing penalties from his stats is daft on a United forum. We don’t have anyone to take them.
 

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Removing penalties from his stats is daft on a United forum. We don’t have anyone to take them.
We are amazing at getting pens. I think we have 6 already this season in the league and we have got 2 in the cups too. Last season we had 12 which was the highest in the league too.

Sadly we are not that great at scoring them. Lukaku never got the chance for us though.
 

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Steve Walsh's last job was with Everton. Apparently, he recommended Harry Maguire, Andrew Robertson (combined 20m), Jonny Evans and Haarland (4m), Everton rejected all.

The softly-spoken Walsh, whose Lancashire accent hides his Irish ancestry, was once dubbed by Sir Alex Ferguson the “most important influential person in the Premier League” as a squad of players Walsh largely found and recruited, at a cost of just £21 million, claimed the Premier League title, defying bookmaker odds of 5,000-1.

He feels Mourinho lost his way during his tenure as manager at Manchester United, and blames the club’s recruitment policy. For Walsh, recruitment is crucial to any club’s success, but it has to be recruitment with a purpose and a plan, something that didn’t seem obvious during United’s recent transfer activity.

He would be the first to admit that he probably needs to reinvent himself now a little bit. Obviously, it didn’t go right at United. Pep Guardiola was asked in an interview with a newspaper how he accounted for his success. He said 80 per cent of it was recruitment. I think Jose may have lost sight of that fact.

“You have to work out what you want and need. Don’t try to attract players with no plan: ‘He’s available so we will take him.’ Alexis Sanchez is a good example. During the title-winning season we only lost three times but two of those were against Arsenal. They pasted us at Leicester, 5-2. We played well and Jamie scored a remarkable goal, but Sanchez was outstanding that day. He was instrumental in both games.

“But it is not about collecting players, it is about having a clear plan and a strategy of how you want to play.

“When Jose signed Romelu Lukaku from Everton, I remember saying to him, ‘You have to be careful with Lukaku. He is a big baby, you know.’ He said he could handle him. I don’t think he really got Lukaku on-side mentally, which you have to do. That is the case with him and Paul Pogba. They aren’t my type of players. They are more about themselves than the team. I wouldn’t have touched them. Because they are good players doesn’t mean you are going to get a good team out of it.

“United have made a lot of signings. Look at £50 million for Aaron Wan-Bissaka. Now, perhaps it is too early and he will improve, but my eyes tell me when he gets the ball he is not the best. He is a good athlete and very quick, strong, and a good defender, but United don’t need a good defender, they need someone who can play, get on the ball.

“If I had been at United, I would have said, ‘Put your £50 million away, go and get Kieran Trippier for half that. He is an England international. He isn’t a great defender or a physical specimen, but he can play right-back and get the ball in early and you have strikers who can score goals.’ It is common sense.”
 

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We are amazing at getting pens. I think we have 6 already this season in the league and we have got 2 in the cups too. Last season we had 12 which was the highest in the league too.

Sadly we are not that great at scoring them. Lukaku never got the chance for us though.
Lukaku definitely missed one for us.

Then never took another I think. He also has the distinction of being one of the very very few players to have a penalty saved by De Gea.
 

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Steve Walsh's last job was with Everton. Apparently, he recommended Harry Maguire, Andrew Robertson (combined 20m), Jonny Evans and Haarland (4m), Everton rejected all.
The bit in there about going for Trippier over AWB is asinine. I also hate these type of articles, because it's BS unless he also tells you about his recommendation of players they did or didn't sign that ended up being horrible.
 

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Lukaku definitely missed one for us.

Then never took another I think. He also has the distinction of being one of the very very few players to have a penalty saved by De Gea.
Also missed one for Chelsea in the European Super Cup penalty shoot out to win Bayern the game
 

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Ole is living rent free in his head.
I thought he chose to leave but now he knew his time was over .

I remember an article stating that Rashford was number one for the striker position and not Lukaku. Maybe there was some truth to it.
 

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Reached his 250 goals tonight with clubs and country in 513 games, 198 goals with clubs and 52 with national team.