Lukaku scored 10 goals under Solskjaer, Pogba scored 11 and 5 were penalties. Lukaku scored in four games straight after his first appearance under Solskjaer. Not even Zlatan had a run like that.
Doubt it has to do with Lukaku. It's on Conte's tactics. At Chelsea they managed 85 goals in his first season (Costa 20, Hazard 16 , Pedro 10, Willian 8). They have yet to score more than 70 goals in the league.
You can maybe favour him for his work rate, mentality and personality but there's no way you can watch him and Pogba play and decide you'd rather watch McTominay. The best players (and most loved/admired) usually combine it all!
How so? I’ve defended him and said we should have kept him all along.
Oh, don't worry, everyone knows that you doubt it has anything to do with Lukaku.
Just seems odd that you’d be happy to see a player who you rate so highly join a rival club
You're also completely forgetting they played in Europe in his 2nd season and Conte can't play in more than one competition at a time which he's proven at Inter aswell.
Never really got the comparisions with Drogba they're nothing alike.
He's nowhere near prime Torres
I just want to see how much has the player actually improved without the retirement league excuse. I’m looking forward to some of the more bullish posters eating their words. As long as he doesn’t start scoring against us again I don’t really care… I think he was the right signing at wrong time for us. Long term i think it made sense because he had the potential to be one of the best in the country year in year out. Falling out with Pogba and what Jose wanted him to be made the situation all wrong for him. He totally lost motivation and I can see why some fans resent him for that but he’s a good player. If we sold Pogba instead when they fell out we’d have a 100 million striker and money in the bank from the Pogba sale instead of Pogba possibly leaving on a free and searching for a 100 million striker next summer.
You are talking about Emile Heskey lol? Personally I don't think there is much of a comparison to either tbh.
You're so hilariously predictable. Conte has won the league with Juve while going further in the CL than he did with Chelsea that season, and finished one point behind a very strong Juve team while reaching the final of the Europa League.
I'm talking in terms of their respective strengths. Both thrive on runs in behind and have excellent acceleration from a standing start.He's nowhere near prime Torres
And you're so obviously fanboying. Strong Juventus team? They lost against Lyon in the Champions League. Inter only won the league last season because they were out of the UCL in DECEMBER and Juve appointed a complete newb as a manager - the number of points they dropped against bottom 10 teams - last time it happened was over 10 years ago.
Inter finished with 91 points, eight more than Juve the year before managed by the complete newb Sarri.
I have a tenner on him being top goal scorer TBH, not that I think he is a world class talent but I think he will suit Chelsea perfectly.
It's not only his first touch, last time was in the PL he was getting shrugged off the ball by players half his size. This league us notoriously more physical and doesn't grant you half the space Serie A does.
Are you stupid?!?!?
I am sure he’ll get 20 goals. That doesn’t change Chelsea’s top 4 struggles unless others start putting the ball in the net. Let’s be honest the only reason Chelsea got too 4 last season is because Leceister flopped at the last hurdle.
Yes, and he won the league with Juve while reaching the quarters in the CL, and finished one point behind Juve while reaching the final of the EL with Inter. He clearly can perform in the league while playing in Europe, he has done it several times.
They played against fecking Ludogorets,Getafe, Neverkusen and Shaktar for crying out loud
Lets be honest, Since Tuchel took over last season, Chelsea had the second most wins in the league and went from 9th to 4th.
Alright, so when you said playing in more than one competition you didn't mean it. It doesn't matter that Chelsea played eight matches in Europe while Inter played 12. You're still stuck with the fact that he won with Juve while going further in the CL, but I'm sure that won't matter either. The reason Conte finished fifth with Chelsea is that they crashed out at the last 16 in the CL on a 4-1 aggregate vs Barcelona, not because they had an attack that didn't function.They played against fecking Ludogorets,Getafe, Neverkusen and Shaktar for crying out loud
They had nearly have a season with Fat Frank, I think Chelsea will win the tittle, just my opnion.
I don't think he likes defenders being aggressive and physical with him.
That was over 8 years ago mate. In his last season he got fecked by Galatasaray in UCL and then finished 3rd in GS. I very much doubt he'd even win the EPL title with Chelsea if they were playing in UCL because the guy doesn't know how to ROTATE players.
Lukaku scored 9 goals and 2 assists under Ole. Pogba scored 11 goals and 7 assists under Ole. One player is a CF and other player is a CM who was played in deeper role after first few games.
He will score decent number of goals, Chelsea create good chances so he will score decent number of goals. As usual people will lose their shit and start to rewrite his 2018-19 season.
Alright, this is what we got:
Ok im wrong you win. Lukaku's gonna shit the league all hail the firs touch king.
Standard @GifLord.
What tends to be forgotten about that season is we were actually 2nd going into new year and got out of a very tough UCL group, granted we were miles behind City but it was still was a decent season at that point especially factoring in the awful summer window we had.
True. After the new year Morata scored once and Giroud three times.
What insane claims? Conte's a joke in Europe thats a proven fact.
Conte one of the best if not best managers in the world. Without messi pep still struggle to win champions league and he went to final once despite spent around 1.2 bn including his bayern days. Nobody claimed he is bad manager.
