When we played CFC 2 months ago and they beat us 1-0.
That was just one game. Even then he got a fabulous ball. Our players don't do that and Morata , not as far as I can remember, takes the game by the scruff and dictates it.
Morata has missed so many chances too.
Like? Because from what I have seen of him, he depends a lot on Hazard's movement. If hazard is having an off game, he too goes quite. Which si why I doubt if he would have made much difference considering we do not have any Hazard esque player here.
The Metro is a shiterag. No better than the Sun.
Any paper you believe or do they all just sit around and literally make up quotes and also miraculously not get sued for libel?
Maybe we felt Morata wasnt worth 75m but we though Lukaku was. Hence we set a limit of how much we were going to pay for Morata? Also when we were trying to sign Morata, Madrid might have been playing hard ball trying to squeeze more money but Chelsea got him closer towards the end of the window by which time Morata might have told Madrid he wants to leave in the summer.
Lukaku/morata have had more than one professional season so try to restate what you said taking that into account ? You will struggle with a non negligible sample size.
Why? I actually support Lukaku and think he'll come good.
History. Lukaku very consistent premiership goal scorer since teenage. Morata not a consistent goalscorer.
But it seems scoring alone is not enough, he has to do flicks/tricks to impress some here. Maybe instead of footballer he should have been a freestyle footballer or better joined a circus.
Figures wise he's still doing better than Morata anyway. Just wait until he hits form.
There are a few sources that would twitch my ears but none of them are newspapers. The bottom of the barrel ones like the Sun, Metro and Sport may as well just draw names out of a hat. The slightly more reputable ones just copy and paste from the popular sources. None of these newspapers have any real insight or contact with these clubs.Any paper you believe or do they all just sit around and literally make up quotes and also miraculously not get sued for libel?
I say till we provide him good service again. Of late he has been fed scraps
Think you're being rather disingenuous - but there we go.
Morata numbers are consistent in the last 4 years, what he has lacked are minutes, ~1300 minutes per season in league his last 3 seasons, he's almost there with Chelsea this season and we're not even in January. And he's done it in 3 different leagues.
Seems you're worrying yourself based on your own hypothesis. Probably not healthy
The better question would be, why didnt we break the bank for Harry Kane? Well, actually that's probably a crap question because the answe was obvious; he'd cost double that of Lukaku.
Yeah no chance we could have gotten Kane for anything less than 150m, and that would have affected our other transfers even more than it was already affected.
No it wasn't public knowledge and is probably inaccurate.
Maybe. I’m not saying Newspapers are never right; just wrong or guessing the majority of the time.
But even if you're right, is that even unusual. Big teams change target all the time for countless reasons, not sure why it's 'worrying' you so much
Real Madrid didn't guarantee Morata regular game time, so Morata wanted to leave Real to get regular minutes. We and Chelsea showed the most interest, but Real tried to extract more money off of us given the greater demand (at the time) and our willingness to throw money around. At the same time, we were also attempting to get Lukaku (along with Chelsea). I think Mourinho had his preference with Lukaku, but Ed was still working on the Morata transfer in case the Lukaku deal fell through. However, it didn't so we got him, and Chelsea were the only party interested in Morata, which was why they got him for a decent price in the end.
At the time that sounded like pure spin, trying to make out like United hadn't been forced to settle for their backup target by Madrid's spiteful negotiations. Mourinho was full of praise for Morata throughout negotiations, and gave specific details about why he fit United's needs.
