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Yeah but you're comparing Lukaku's goalscoring in Serie A for Inter.
Rashford has already matched Lukaku's PL goal tally last season in 12 fewer games from the left, all while actually scoring important goals against the top 6. Meanwhile Martial has a far better goal to game ratio than Lukaku last season. This is for Man Utd, not Inter and without Pogba creating for them all season.
It was the right call to prioritise Martial/Rashford over Lukaku - we saw Lukaku at his peak and he managed to get overweight, become unpopular in the dressing room, push for a move and score 15 goals while falling over the ball. We know he's not good enough, he had 1.5 years as undisputed first choice and didn't make it his own. Whether Rashford and Martial prove to be good enough remains to be seen but at least they have the potential to be and are already matching what Lukaku did here last season.
Well first you critisize me because I am comparing Lukaku´s goalscoring record in Seria A, but then you compare Lukaku´s goalscoring record from last year with goalscoring record of our players from this season, it doesnt make much sense to me. Btw Rashford already played more than 1800 minute this season in PL, Lukaku played only around 2100 in last one.
And like I said, Lukaku under Ole played out of his position as a RW and he still had a better record than Rashford, who was used as a main striker and to be honest, Lukaku was the main reason Olé got his full time contract with United, because his two goals against PSG made the difference. Actually I dont see any reason that it was a good decision, because Rashford already proved that he is not a classic striker and his qualities are better used in a wide positions, f.e as a winger and Martial.. well, I like him a lot but he is an injury prone and he is hit or miss at best as a striker and I think he is similar to Rashford. I see him rather as a winger than as a striker, but a big problem is he probably has tottaly different opinion.
If Lukaku showed that he is not good enough in 18 months, what exactly actually Rashford or Martial showed in last 4 season to be trusted more than him?
My main problem with Lukakus departure is that we lost so many attacking options, because even though he could be one dimensional player, he still tall and strong number 9 with excellent finish. Now we rely on Martials finishing, but he didnt play so much and Rashford is similar finisher like Danny Welbeck.