What an insult to Drogba that will always be.
Drogba was a bit Lukakuesque early in his career but each season he refined his game and became rather skillful as time went on. Clearly a player who identified his weaknesses and worked on them.We really don't miss him.
Lukaku talks a big game but he can't back it up. Everything is talk with him. He was the first to say he doesn't care about his teammates problems and that they should deal with it, yet sulked and left at the first opportunity once the going got tough here.
We miss a top striker though. Maybe we could do better than Lukaku, but we are not.
It was ridiculous if you studied both their games. Attribute wise Lukaku had a lot more in common with Torres than he did Drogba.
Yep for a big guy Lukaku rarely used his body to gain an advantage over the defenders. He's soft as lambs wool! the only time I saw him play with aggression was against Chelsea (smashed Azpilicueta)
That interview was the moment I knew with a 100% certainty that Lukaku will never make it here. He was so smug about being the teacher's pet, basically saying some of the players in the squad are not manly enough to deal with criticism or change. But then after leaving, he spoke about not being appreciated enough and alluded to not wanting to fight for his place or try and play as some sort of RF/RW.
Good call mate.
How so?
If we wanted someone to score the third goal against a crap side, then sure we miss him! He’s never been good enough for a top European side.
With Lukaku we ended up in second place. Without him we struggle for 4th.
All true though. Can look at the league tables.
Lukaku was there last season, where did you finish
I don’t remember us finishing 2nd last season? Must have missed that.
The season before the meltdown. Last season everyone started terribly due to Mourinho being toxic.
Funny, despite us finishing 2nd in the 17/18 season he still managed to have a worse goal to minute ratio than Martial has currently, in a season where we've had a rubbish midfield all season and by your accounts he has been up and down. Do you not remember Lukaku going literal months without scoring a goal?
Lukaku was up and down too, but carried us higher up the league table.
He played 8 times after the PSG game, was complete shit and didn't score a goal.
You might underrate him too though if you think we haven't missed him. We have struggled to beat weaker teams all season.
Acceleration being a big part of their respective games aswell as both heavily reliant on the service they get/got. Both better when operating on instinct as opposed when they have more time to think and both also have a tendency to sulk and blame anyone but themselves when it's not going their way/they're not being pandered too.
Man lukaku doesnt have a first touch, which is quite a basic thing for a footballer and precisely a striker worth 75mil do you understand how abnormal it is for us normal people to rate him as a good striker in general? We made great business in selling him, look at those three young devils roaming forward today, you seriously want that tank to be slowfecking our attack?
He didn't carry us for toffee, he scored at an average rate, lower than Martial this season, in a season that was over by November. He scored 1 goal in over 20 games against the top 6 while he was here, which is laughable. Lukaku's myth is that he's a good goalscorer, he's an average one, the likes of Martial and Tammy Abraham have a better goalscoring record in their first season as starting premier league strikers than Lukaku in his best one here. So if Lukaku isn't even as good as Martial as a goalscorer, what on earth has he got over him?
His first touch can be poor at times, but he still scores goals and set up his team for goals. He took us to top 2 and Belgium to third place in the world cup. That is a pretty good record.
This. We're a better team
Except, Lukaku is not quality. Can you imagine him as one of the front 3 today? Our movement and passing was so slick, he would have destroyed that.
so you credit him with us coming second, and absolve him when we finished outside the CL places. We’ve not missed him one bit, and we are a far better team without him. He may have played some games on the right wing, that’s about it.
)Yeah it's Lukaku who gave Ole the job, not players like Pogba, Rashford who were very good in the run in.
Breaking teams down generally involves the things that happen outside of the six yard box. Lukaku is generally pretty awful at things that happen outside the six yard box. More often than not, when trying to break teams down, our attacks fell apart when he got on the ball.
He was very, very annoying during his time here. His interviews were some of the most annoying I ever saw from a United player. Certainly enough to leave a bad taste in my mouth.
No, I don't. We would get a team with annoying low-block approach, coached by Conte (During Conte's 2 years here, I was dreading us facing his Chelses team). You can bet Lukaku will be fired up against us, which is another annoying factor. Remember how Welbeck regularly scored against us at Arsenal? Now with a fired-up Lukaku, we may be punished more heavily. Ole and us had a tough season. I want us to end with a nice run and actual trophies. We can just keep picking weak opponents through lucky draws and win the Europa League. That's fine to me too.
See this thread:That was so loud and clear
