It was Mourinho who began benching Lukaku for performance reasons and paved the way for Ole to do the same. Everyone could see his poor form before Ole took over.
Arent we getting Ben Yedder as soon as Lukaku goes?
He looks about 3 stone overweight if the current pic doing the rounds is accurate!
Our replacement has eaten too much.
In a move financed by the local restaurateurs
I've honesty never seen this Ben Yedder play but I just wan't someone who will fit the system, press and work hard and have good/decent hold up play. He sounds interesting and the opposite of Lukaku.
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That would be a big mistake. Then again i wouldn't be surprised.
Front line is not excellent whatever way you try spin it.
I don't think any of those are proper number 9's, we'd have to be banking on Sanchez to come good. Rashford seems to be the one marked for that role, but I'm not sure. Think we might have problems if we don't get a good replacement.
The younger, leaner Lukaku was a much better player. I'd say better than Rashford.
Potential to be excellent, and I think Ole wants to give them the opportunity for that.
How come nonsense? You claim we «clearly» wouldnt do something but in reality you cannot back up that statement, and not anything you say actually deny what I've said. And at the end we actually agree: whoever wants him should pay what its worth. Here we can argue if he is up to said market rate or not and we would be arguing on personal opinion basis so its pointless. But I still agree with previous and quoted posts: I rather keep him than sell him on the loose and weakening our squad in the process.
Im hoping we are going for haller. Ben Yedder seemed to have passed the summer at papa john
There are lots of players that should never have been signed. Lukaku, Fellaini, Smalling, Matic.. etc. all of them represent a style of football that has no place in the modern football.
I think Ben Yedder would make a decent replacement. Never seen his photo you are on about I will have to look. Thanks for letting me about it mateI've honesty never seen this Ben Yedder play but I just wan't someone who will fit the system, press and work hard and have good/decent hold up play. He sounds interesting and the opposite of Lukaku.
oh gawd, i've just seen the picture of him having returned from holiday. Hope it's just an unfaltering angle or else he's been really living it up in the summer
He has only really existed on Youtube, in highlight videos.
If you watch Lukaku's highlights at United, you'll see him demonstrating a lot of those attributes. The problem here is that a lot of the highlights reels on Youtube cuts out the negatives, so it's not entirely indicative of the player's overall level. There was a period last season where he bulked up way too much and his pace dropped significantly, but for the most part I highly doubt his performance has lowered since his Everton days. If anything, his hold up play has probably improved slightly.
Ruthless? He continued playing likes of Rashford, Young, Lingard week after week when they were stinking the place out.
I don't understand the hate against Lukaku. He is our best striker. He was played out of position at times. He is not winger and never will be. He was benched mmany times even after good performances. It is hard to judge a player after the whole team had shite season. He is more than a target man. His commitment is United level. Always gives 100% I would be happy if he stays if not we need a proper striker replacement which will be hard to find/expensive. He will be a beast at Juve and they are far from being a "hoof the ball team".
I think there's an element of truth in that as Everton fans used to say the same but he was a more explosive player for them. In fact if you look at his physique and the runs he made in behind he wouldn't actually be that far from what we want now (minus the poor first touch)
Ironically, probably his best performance last season was on the right against Arsenal. He is a good player when he's on form and will probably do well in Italy. I just don't think he'll ever be world class or fit in with our system, especially with the ridiculous amount of muscle weight he's holding. We need a striker that can link play better and run in behind defences.
This.
hopefully he will never come to Juve. We do not need a striker and especially that type of striker. Lukako is a good player but he was never worth the money you paid for him and if Inter are dumb enough to buy him for 70m you should call yourself lucky, grab the money and run.
It is just extremely frustrating to see a Manchester United player have problems with controlling a football. He can do multiple things right during a match but when he fails to control a ball that will stick because it just looks so awfull.
at the moment, I'd take the goals. not sure we are going to score enough of them with just Rashford up front (oh wait, Lingard will score 20 this season
)It isn't ironic really, more like sad because the only reason he got pushed out wide was because his finishing was atrocious during his dip in form, and first touch too poor to lead the line. So Ole used his pace and power on the wing, and he did have a decent cross. But we didn't pay 75m for that.
He really offers nothing at all different from Rashford or Martial, other than being a much worse footballer. He's not good in the air, he's not strong against defenders, he can't hold up the ball because the ball always bounces off him.
