Romelu Lukaku | Mourinho Part III | Roma watch

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Of course he wanted to join Utd.

The BS that’s come after is because he’s pandering to his new club, and also trying to justify why he was so bad.

Ultimately he walked through the gates of OT (Carrington), and at that point he thought he made it big time. Some players see this at motivation to push forward and improve, he clearly reacted in his laurels and stopped working hard enough.

OGS is very pragmatic and doesn’t bad mouth players, just look at the way he handled Sanchez - but it’s obvious he wanted him gone, or at the best told him he would never be a starter if everyone else was fit. At that point we started to get all the BS from Lukaku.

Yes he has options, Chelsea wanted him, and he had a very clear choice between us and them.
Sure. Did Chelsea offered more money than us ?
 

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I watched him the other day and he has not changed;
He scored a good goal then he missed a sitter in the second half and he did not do much apart from that.
I am glad Ole got rid and Martial has improved in a big way this season with his workrate and getting in good positions so he is starting to look like a genuine striker these days.
 

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I watched him the other day and he has not changed;
He scored a good goal then he missed a sitter in the second half and he did not do much apart from that.
I am glad Ole got rid and Martial has improved in a big way this season with his workrate and getting in good positions so he is starting to look like a genuine striker these days.
Yeah Martial has been so good for us. I supported both Belgium and France in the WC 2018 so I watched all their matches. Lukaku and Giroud were horrible tbh. If this #9 Martial was discovered two years earlier he'd be a WC winner already. France would had a killing front with Griezmann, Mbappe, Dembele and Martial. Dembele was still really good back then. What a shame really.
 

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Yeah Martial has been so good for us. I supported both Belgium and France in the WC 2018 so I watched all their matches. Lukaku and Giroud were horrible tbh. If this #9 Martial was discovered two years earlier he'd be a WC winner already. France would had a killing front with Griezmann, Mbappe, Dembele and Martial. Dembele was still really good back then. What a shame really.
France had better strikers than Giroud available, regardless of Martial. I think Giroud would have played regardless. Deschamps quite likes him afaik
 

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I agree otherwise, I only watched a few of the later matches and Lukaku was pretty terrible in the ones i saw. I heard he started well, so the usual - bullying weaker teams but not offering enough against decent opponents. I dont think Giroud is particularly great and i thought he had a bad tournament on top of that.
 

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I’d be embarrassed if I was Lukaku. The touch was decent but the fact the inter account had to tweet that is cringeworthy.
This :lol:

The fact that that’s considered a “highlight” for Lukaku, says it all :lol:

Professional players do that in their sleep. Let alone the ones that cost over £75m
 

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We seem on track to meet him in the final (unless we get shafted by Wolves/Sevilla).

He's on a roll in the EL, has scored 6 games in a row (9 if you go back to his Everton days). Would be great to break that spell.
 

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The benefits of a proper number 9 . Two excellent finishes tonight and over 30 goals for the season .

This is why Inter are in the final and we are not .

If Ole wasn't satisfied with Lukaku then he should have replaced him with a a proper centre forward and not a winger who can't win headers.

For once i have to admit Scholes is right and we are paying the price for not having a real centre forward
 

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Magnanimous from him there, fair play.
 

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That
Or our defending

Sure we weren't clinical but I haven't seen inter make the defensive mistakes we have

He's a good striker but I don't think he suited us or would have going forward.
 

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The benefits of a proper number 9 . Two excellent finishes tonight and over 30 goals for the season .

This is why Inter are in the final and we are not .

If Ole wasn't satisfied with Lukaku then he should have replaced him with a a proper centre forward and not a winger who can't win headers.

For once i have to admit Scholes is right and we are paying the price for not having a real centre forward
Martial is a center forward and has been our best player along with Bruno since the new year.
 

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The benefits of a proper number 9 . Two excellent finishes tonight and over 30 goals for the season .

This is why Inter are in the final and we are not .

If Ole wasn't satisfied with Lukaku then he should have replaced him with a a proper centre forward and not a winger who can't win headers.

For once i have to admit Scholes is right and we are paying the price for not having a real centre forward
He was useless for us though? Hasn’t greenwood scored more for us this season than Rom did last season? We’re a much better side without him in it.
 

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The benefits of a proper number 9 . Two excellent finishes tonight and over 30 goals for the season .

This is why Inter are in the final and we are not .

If Ole wasn't satisfied with Lukaku then he should have replaced him with a a proper centre forward and not a winger who can't win headers.

For once i have to admit Scholes is right and we are paying the price for not having a real centre forward
He scored the 4th and 5th goal :lol:
 

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The benefits of a proper number 9 . Two excellent finishes tonight and over 30 goals for the season .

This is why Inter are in the final and we are not .

If Ole wasn't satisfied with Lukaku then he should have replaced him with a a proper centre forward and not a winger who can't win headers.

For once i have to admit Scholes is right and we are paying the price for not having a real centre forward
Martial is a center forward.
 

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Martial is a center forward and has been our best player along with Bruno since the new year.
Martial is not a centre forward and should not be playing as one . Hopefully Greenwood will develop into one but until he does we need a better option through the middle .
 

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Happy for him. I've always liked and supported him here. Playing in a better coached/organized team by a good manager is easier.
 

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He can score 60 goals but truth was he was always looking to move abroad. People blame Ole but he was also shit under jose in 18-19 first half. When in crunch moments he always screwed it up. Italian league is perfect for him.
 

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Sorry I just realized it was Virgin he was speaking to so not everyone would be watching.

He said he's really happy with how fair we've come this season, that Ole is doing well, and that he's glad Mason, Marcus, and Tony are scoring and wishes us well for next year.
 

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The benefits of a proper number 9 . Two excellent finishes tonight and over 30 goals for the season .

This is why Inter are in the final and we are not .

If Ole wasn't satisfied with Lukaku then he should have replaced him with a a proper centre forward and not a winger who can't win headers.

For once i have to admit Scholes is right and we are paying the price for not having a real centre forward
How about we replace Scholes with a proper pundit that actually able intelligent contributions and fluent.

Lukaku us not a United quality player, doesn't matter if he scores hundred.
Yeah how about we get Kane when we are struggling to get a right winger.
 

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Nothing will change the fact that he is donkey and will remain one.
 

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We really missed him for the first half of the season. Near the end Bruno and Martial made up for the loss more and we got more quality in the final third.
 

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Sorry I just realized it was Virgin he was speaking to so not everyone would be watching.

He said he's really happy with how fair we've come this season, that Ole is doing well, and that he's glad Mason, Marcus, and Tony are scoring and wishes us well for next year.
Thanks

Why was he talking about us in the first place? Assume someone asked him if he wishes he was playing us in the final?
 

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Some as usual will find it hard to give him any kind of credit but will be back immediately whenever he has a shite game to have some laugh in this thread. I'll say it again, I really can't understand the reasoning of being bitter about our ex as if they should all fail because they left us.
 

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The benefits of a proper number 9 . Two excellent finishes tonight and over 30 goals for the season .

This is why Inter are in the final and we are not .

If Ole wasn't satisfied with Lukaku then he should have replaced him with a a proper centre forward and not a winger who can't win headers.

For once i have to admit Scholes is right and we are paying the price for not having a real centre forward
I love Scholes but thats a load of tosh tbh.
 

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It is pretty impressive that he got 6 goals from 5 Europa league games. Since the restart he has scored 4 in 3 too.
 

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Martial is not a centre forward and should not be playing as one . Hopefully Greenwood will develop into one but until he does we need a better option through the middle .
The beauty of life that people are entitled to their opinion.
If asked why you think he is not a center forward, you will struggle to give a coherent response.
 

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:lol: at the amount of people in this thread that have convinced themselves Lukaku is shit. He's a good player just wasn't the right fit for us.
 

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He was very respectful post-match and correct. It’s a move that worked out for everyone.

I can’t root for him on Friday because their football is very dull. Sevilla aren’t likeable but they do try and play.
 

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It's not a surprise he's scoring lots of goals, he always has. Inter got an excellent deal in the end when many here wanted us to almost give him away for even less.
 

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Some as usual will find it hard to give him any kind of credit but will be back immediately whenever he has a shite game to have some laugh in this thread. I'll say it again, I really can't understand the reasoning of being bitter about our ex as if they should all fail because they left us.
I don't think anyone here really cares if he fails or not.

But you have to admit it's also annoying that whenever he scores, there's always 1 person who goes on about it.

I mean just look at the posts LSD made in this thread.