I generally think he comes across quite well in interviews. Intelligent, affable guy, who seems to think clearly about his game.
he’s not a player his former teammates or managers rave about either.
Or we simply disagree? And it's not as if I made a big deal out of it, yet you are somehow taking it personally.
he’s clearly an intelligent man, and speaks multiple languages. He’s obviously very weak mentally.
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He scored his penalty at a tournament where loads are being missed and he still gets criticised for it in this thread.I think that's harsh. United was his second chance (in a sport that doesn't give out many of them) at a really big club after things didn't work out for him at Chelsea. When it went south for him too in Manchester, that could have been enough to properly rattle lesser players and put them on some sort of downward career trajectory. Instead, he pulled himself together, moved to Italy, and scored 64 goals in 95 games (winning Serie A along the way). He's no Roy Keane, but I think he has a bit more about him than some people give him credit for.
A lot of people would consider Inter and Italy quite a step down from the premier League and Manchester United.
Or you are just wrong.Or we simply disagree? And it's not as if I made a big deal out of it, yet you are somehow taking it personally.
Which is fine.
Well, he scored 129 goals in England, too, including 15+ goals in seven consecutive seasons (neither Drogba nor Van Persie ever managed that).
Hes putting his finger to his lips like he did something and it put the keeper in his place. He literally took the bottlers penalty. Well done on scoring but its not a pen that allowed him to act like that.No white text?
The goalie was mouthing off to him as he was waiting to take it. Giving a bit of shit back to a goalie after you score is standard practice.
He's a weird one. In his second season, when there was criticism of his size and the form he was in, he laughed it off in an interview and referred to it as bs. His bad form continued, and he started talking about bulking up for the sake of the world cup and that it effected his form in the premier league, but now he's slimming down. The following summer, he posted the internal tests on social media after stories about his fitness, which he then had to delete. In italy, he's been quick to post videos on social media when he's being mocked for something, not to mention Inter doing it at times. I'm not sure how many variations he's told about why he left Manchester United and how it happened. He likes to talk, and he's talked a lot since moving to Italy. All this talk about not being recognized as one of the worlds top strikers, like Lewa etc.
I think you missed the weirdest story. He said that he bulked up for the world cup but when he moved to Italy, he praised Inter for sending him to a nutritionist because his digestive system had stopped to work.
Theyve had history i think? Itd just Lukaku, he will make a show of anything.
happens with most penalties. A goalkeeper trying to put off a striker and get in their heads is perfectly normal.
Because it was clogged up with a Greggs sausage roll. His fitness was all on him - no surprise he came out with a story to blame United after he had left. It couldn’t be his fault…
Yes, while he also kept going on about how he knows his body and he drinks a lot of water + eats fish. He's a weird one
Indeed. The striker giving a bit back is just as common. I've personally been on both ends of it!
Milan goalie against Inter striker? Sure!
It's very common thing that happens in the game. GK talks shit to put off penalty taker, when the player scores he gives it back.
Is he going to get that much better? He's 28, we're arguably seeing him at his peak and I don't know if he's got the attributes to play in deeper positions.
There's the theory that he was so big in his formative years that he could just out muscle everyone and thus never developed his technical skills. It makes sense.
I think this is probably his peak years. He might win next world cup or another big tournament, but this was probably his best chance and last world cup.
It wasn't a miss...
The defender knew very little about it. He tried to cut the cross and lukaku hit it into him.
Neither did KDB. Did you see Italy second goal? One of the CBs just walked passed him with the ball at their feet and he just watched him.
Its always been known as a bottlers pen where I come from! If youre not sure or confident you stick it down the middle with power.
It's apparently small-time and fragile to address the goalkeeper who has been mouthing off in your celebration. Here's Auba being small-time:
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