No one said Lukaku wasn’t good enough. General consensus is that he’s a good player who didn’t fit into our system, making this a mutually beneficial deal. He’s better than Martial but he’d do no better than Cavani here.
Top reply, as expected.
I hope so but not sure about that.
Read the many Lakaku threads, many people have said he “wasn’t/isn’t good enough”.
From the guy who somehow thinks McFred were being blamed for Lakaku being sold.
In fairness its hardly Wengerball under Ole, I'm sure he would've coped
Since he left, all I’m seeing is ‘mutually beneficial deal’. Fair enough, his player performance thread in 18-19 did consist of people saying he wasn’t good enough. I never agreed with that. Anyway, in 18-19, Lukaku got 12 goals. Cavani is already on 7 now in February. Along with that, our system is essentially one where the striker is actually the supporter for wide players and Bruno to run in behind. Cavani is playing that role to a tee while Martial is just absolutely rubbish (not the system’s problem). Lukaku wants to be a main man, I’m sure we can agree on that.
After PSG, his performances under Ole were as bad as Martial’s this season. Wasn’t his worse but the home game against Chelsea sticks out. He made a lung busting run early in the game and was absolutely gassed for the rest of it. As in, blowing right out of his arse. Watch it back if you don’t believe me, because it was embarrassing in a massive game where if we won we might have made the CL.
His hold up play is pretty good actually
In the CL or EL where I watch most of Inter’s games, I still think ‘same old same old’. Not sure about the league because I only watch him when they play Juve or Milan.
Remind me again, where is United in the CL?
Yawn. The only thing you are actually winning is... nothing. An incompetent coach is recipe for disaster in Serie A, however good the squad, and United is nothing special as a squad, moreover pretty terrible as a coached unit.
Except two games against Juventus. Porto hammered you upside down. If you didn’t have so much luck, the tie would genuinely be over. Also, you’d know a lot about incompetent coaches wouldn’t you (Sarri and Pirlo
)In the EL after messing up a difficult group. Despite that, we still comfortably beat two CL semi-finalists in individual games. No excuse of course but give Inter to PSG and the rollicking would be so severe Conte’s wig would fall. Where are Inter in the EL?
Mate, it is very difficult to separate facts from assumptions from your posts. The only thing really clear, is they are the by-product of a vividly fantasist footballing brain. Not that I am surprised, to be honest. Fantasy island is always alive and kicking. Keep going!Seems like some Serie A fans have activated Bundesliga/period mood
Except two games against Juventus. Porto hammered you upside down. If you didn’t have so much luck, the tie would genuinely be over. Also, you’d know a lot about incompetent coaches wouldn’t you (Sarri and Pirlo
If we’re terrible as a unit, then what are Juve? Football is a team sport, and over at Juve, there is one legend and 24 plodders. The manager being one of them. Pirlo makes Ole look like a combination of Fergie, Pep and prime Mourinho, and I don’t even rate Ole.
We’d also finish higher than Inter because we are a better team, Milan because we have a much better squad, Lazio likewise, Atalanta because of their inconsistencies and high-press style, which we’d absolutely scythe through.
In the EL after messing up a difficult group. Despite that, we still comfortably beat two CL semi-finalists in individual games. No excuse of course but give Inter to PSG and the rollicking would be so severe Conte’s wig would fall. Where are Inter in the EL?
Folks, the crude reality is that United is wasting or burning talents at an exceptional rate since 2013. If average or above average but nothing special players can play much more consistently under a skilled manager in a protected environment, this only shows how dysfunctional their former setting was.
Anyone would be able to understand or ‘separate facts from assumptions’ in my posts in this thread. Clearly the intelligence level of the poster I’m debating with here isn’t too lofty...Oh well, it happens.
What's your point? If Man City were playing in Serie A, Inter and Lukaku wouldn't be competing for a scudetto either.
I was going to move on till the lad below got sassy so I’ll show you the respect of a response.
Who’s talking about Man City. I said Lakaku is challenging for the Scudetto whilst we aren’t challenging for the EPL - move on lad it’s a statement of fact, getting riled won’t change that fact.
Indeed.They are not a good match for current condition Real Madrid.Atalanta very scary
Think before you write - we aren't competing for the PL title because City have won like 15 in a row. Absent City we'd be very much in the title race. Inter are top because Juve are having an abnormally off year.
I'd wait till Bayern play Lazio. Bayern have been in horrible form and can easily lose on Tuesday. They're only 2 points above 2nd place in the league.
That line was a throw away comment based on the posters comment City would walk Serie A, I honestly don’t watch enough of it to know.
Crotone have also made it easy for him to get those goals. They're barely keeping up with any of Juve's attacking players let alone Ronaldo.
Third again... bumpy road just ahead with injuries and Verona + Spezia + Lazio in a week before the 9th March CL doomsday vs Porto. A general sense of uncertainty, tiredness and boredom. Make or break time.
There is hope for Juventus if some of the many injured key players (Dybala, Morata, Cuadrado, Arthur and Bonucci) return. Otherwise, there is too little technical quality on the pitch.
