Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea

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I don't think anyone epitomises flat track bully more than him. You just know he'll never turn up against top teams.
 

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Death row inmates look more positive about their future than he does.
 

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This is Belgium all time top scorer, fecking hell.
 

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You say that as if Costa wasn't an absolute beast for us. 2nd only to Drogba in terms for strikers for us in the past couple of decades.

Stick a prime Costa in this Chelsea squad and we're at least 10 points better off.
I think he means getting Costa now/again (for you guys) would be a better option.

Tbh I'm a bit surprised about his loss of form/game at Atletico. What happened?
 

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It's weird that for both Havertz and Werner he said the players said they could not play, rather than the medical team.

Don't see any reason why both would be mad at Tuchel to the point that they would avoid playing for him.
 

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It's weird that for both Havertz and Werner he said the players said they could not play, rather than the medical team.

Don't see any reason why both would be mad at Tuchel to the point that they would avoid playing for him.
No-one would refuse to play in a cup final unless they were genuinely injured.
 

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A non-entity as per usual vs top teams.

That ball that Reece played to him in the box in the 1st half sums him up. He didn't judge the trajectory of the ball well and it ended up striking him for a hand ball. That epitomizes him as a player.
 

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He's 29!? And a just turned 29... Amazing. He plays like a over the hill, past his prime, mid 30's striker. Lethargic, always a yard or two off a cross, really poor.
 

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He's just way too big now for a centre forward.

I don't know if he's in the gym too much, in the fridge too much or if that's just the way his body has aged.

But either way he's massive and you simply can't move like a centre forward needs to at that weight.
 

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You say that as if Costa wasn't an absolute beast for us. 2nd only to Drogba in terms for strikers for us in the past couple of decades.

Stick a prime Costa in this Chelsea squad and we're at least 10 points better off.
Thats why i said Costa. Retired Costa is better than him.
 

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Shows how clueless fans are at reading talent and performances.
This is a player we have seen for years in the EPL, we know his strengths and weaknesses yet he fecks off to Italy and all of a sudden we are seeing the best no 9 with his back to goal, his touch has improved so, so much etc as if we haven't already got a clear picture of who he already was.
I say we but Utd fans did give out fair warning.
I got there first. I tried to warn you all he was shit even during his first season at United and I got dogs abuse for it, some by people who are very vocally saying the exact same things now.
 

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Looked like exactly why we sold him. Very limited footballer…..
 

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Did Chelsea struggle against bottom table teams? Because that's the only scenario where Lukaku is useful for a top team, it wouldn't justify the transfer fee but it could explain why the club targeted him.

PS: LVG would make great use of him.
 

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Did Chelsea struggle against bottom table teams? Because that's the only scenario where Lukaku is useful for a top team, it wouldn't justify the transfer fee but it could explain why the club targeted him.

PS: LVG would make great use of him.
LVG wanted possession football (in the extreme might I add). Lukaku loses possession naturally. No way would LVG make good use of him.
 

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LVG wanted possession football (in the extreme might I add). Lukaku loses possession naturally. No way would LVG make good use of him.
Not from his striker, it's actually one of the strangest quirk that he had. He wants possession from every one else, including creative players and pure poaching from the striker.
 

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Did they???? :lol: :lol: Maybe I'm not remembering correctly but I don't recall anyone caring. Most seemed happy he was gone and that was that.
Have a look at his thread at Inter, at some point some of us would look at Inter forum fans opinions and report the narratives that we liked.
 

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Have a look at his thread at Inter, at some point some of us would look at Inter forum fans opinions and report the narratives that we liked.
I mean, to what degree did people care? I honestly don't remember an outcry on here whatsoever. I remember far more kickback when the likes of Welbeck and Smalling were sold, for example.
 

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He's just way too big now for a centre forward.

I don't know if he's in the gym too much, in the fridge too much or if that's just the way his body has aged.
He simply puts on weight when hes not happy and he has a very narrow window of happiness. He was the same at United. As soon as things aren't great he puts on weight, gets worse and then goes into a spiral of getting more flak because hes rubbish and getting worse because he is getting flak.
 

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I mean, to what degree did people care? I honestly don't remember an outcry on here whatsoever. I remember far more kickback when the likes of Welbeck and Smalling were sold, for example.
Caring works both ways. If you are happy that someone is sold then you cared about it and many people also cared about it in a negative way mainly Mourinho supporters-Ole haters. In fact people cared a lot more than with Smalling, you just need to have a look at their respective threads after they left.
 

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Caring works both ways. If you are happy that someone is sold then you cared about it and many people also cared about it in a negative way mainly Mourinho supporters-Ole haters. In fact people cared a lot more than with Smalling, you just need to have a look at their respective threads after they left.
But I honestly don't remember a big deal when we sold him. Yes, caring certainly works both ways; which is why in the past when we've sold 'lesser' players, tonnes of threads would be started in the ensuing years, either for or against the transfer. All I recall when we sold Lukaku was 'meh', and his thread generally got bumped when he scored/had a stinker for Inter. Nothing more than that.
 

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He's so ridiculously easy to mark, it's actually unreal. He really is just a big lump of a poacher. Inzaghi and Chicharito could be easy to mark but their reaction time was so quick that it gave them openings to get goals, Lukaku's reactions are always a step behind the defender.

He's good at scoring when he's in specific positions but he's so clumsy and telegraphic that those opportunities never come around in big games.

He's also extremely lazy, pins himself to the CB's instead of moving around to give his team decent out balls. I remember Ashley Williams berating him at Everton on the pitch for that and years later he's still the same player.