Yeah, that's why I said power of headlines. People just see the headline, not what player said or why he said it. If the journalist asks him about comparison with Ronaldo, he will obviously say why he should be compared or why he shouldn't be compared. People don't care about the question that was asked.
What did happen to Rob? I always assumed his disappearance was gambling related, but never actually heard anything.
Exactly this. I am no way a Lukaku fan, but he was pretty gracious in that reply.
Your fake outrage is nauseating. Read the article before you run your mouth.
What narrative? That he is a twat?Lukaku should have told Ronaldo not even half the player I am in size and ability. That will fit narrative about lukaku by most United fans.
That's the narrative indeed. He was asked about a comparison between himself and Ronaldo and he gave a pretty respectful and deferential answer yet still got shit for it on here.
Yeah but we don't need this interview to say he is a twat from ManUtd point of view.
People still call him a donkey here when clearly he is one of the top 5 strikers in the world currently. Watch the outrage from this post.
I'm yet to see people saying Ciro Immobile, Luis Muriel are top 5 strikers in the world.
Do Ciro Immobile and Luis Muriel have 67 goals in 100 caps for their countries? Do they even have half of that?
Lukaku had brilliant record for NT when he was ManUtd player, I didn't see anyone labelling him world class or top 5 CFs. Anyways National teams are mainly against poor teams and most of the times it's the strong team vs fodders.
Genuine question: Is that song closer to Ronaldo or Lukaku?
Is he really? Off the top of my head - Kane, Lewandowski, Haaland, Ronaldo, Benzema, Mbappe are all better.
If this is alluding to the league where they are scoring loads in... Careful going that route because it is the very same place where Ronaldo has shown to still have it by scoring loads.
I bet they also won Serie A player of the season….. oh
The first part of this post is aimed at you, the rest to the people on here.
"I'm nowhere near as good" seems like it was fueled by delusions of grandeur?
First of all I haven't played Fifa in years...and i don't need a video game to tell me Mbappe is better than Lukaku. As an inside forward or as a striker. No manager in the world would chose Lukaku over Mbappe. You really think
The question was merely a stat comparison. His response was an instruction to everyone to never compare him to Ronaldo. Why would he say this if he didn’t at least think there is a danger someone might actually do so ? He basically injected himself into a conversation no one would think about having aside from perhaps him in his own head. So yes, delusional and grandiose. Which is par for the course for him to be fair.
It's not that they didn't read it, though most didn't. It literally doesn't matter.
I have no idea how you’ve read that transcript and come away with this. I’m not even a fan of his but this is mad!
You're out of your mind. What Lukaku did was to reject the comparison in the strongest terms possible. Someone compared him to Ronaldo and he said that he's not close, he's so far from Ronaldo's level that no one should ever mention it.
"Injected himself into a conversation"? He was literally asked if he thought he'd beat Ronaldo's record and he shot the question down out of respect.
Such a poor attempt to wind up Chelsea fans about “thick Rom” that I was shot down by two United fans before any oppos could even reply. That’s all for me tonight, folks.
If you want to wind up oppo fans then you should try it in theads that aren't full of insane United fans. I realize the "it could have been true" defense is weak as feck but I'm sticking with it.
Sorry, is this humour?
Fair enough. It honestly doesn’t look too out of place compared to some other posts here now that you mention it.
Ignore what I said then. At this point currently Lukaku is in the top 5 Strikers. Ahead of Haaland and Mbappe in that center forward position. I would pick Haaland and Mbappe for my team also because theyre younger and have a higher ceiling, but thats nothing to do with the subject. Currently Lukaku is Top 5, ahead of them. Not in the future, Right now. In the future Mbappe and Haaland can be ravaged by injuries and stall. We are talking about this moment, here, now, the present. I’m not going to entertain the Vardy comments, because even Arsenal has snubbed their noses at him. He plays in a counterattacking team fit for a pace merchant.
It's because our fans cant accept we were trash during that period, so the scapegoats were Lukaku and Depay. Look at Depay now. One of the best in the world and Lukaku one of the best strikers in the world. We were absolute garbage when it came to utilizing talent. We were a team with nothing going on for them, no gameplan. Why do you think Pogba was targeted once these two were gone? Then Ole also bashed on repeatedly even though he has been trying to stop the Titanic from sinking. He has done a great job with how god awful we were ran. Its never the clubs fault, it has to be a player or the manager. The tinted glasses make me want to vomit.
Better than Mbappe, better than Haaland as he plays in Farmers league (even though he shits on Lukaku and any other player in CL records), level above Immobile who has outscored him in the league. And then moan about the other extreme group
You think Ronaldo is past it and not good enough to play?
Bang on.
Do you think with Ronaldo as your forward you will win the league or cl. If you say yes then he is not past it.Let alone all other members added to your squad.
To win PL and CL, you need more than good team/very good team.
Lukaku better than Haaland now? feck sake.
Yeah, that's not true. Lukaku outscored him in both his seasons in Italy. He outscored Immobile in his second season too. Immobile just had an absolute freak season in 19/20 where he scored 36.
