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...---------------Pickford*-------------- Patterson*--Stones--Branthwaite--Digne --Gordon---Onana---Gueye*---Richarlison-- -------------Lukaku------------Lookman------------ Other notable sales /departures Mina Kean Iwobi Rodriguez Barkley Deulofeu Instead we have a mess left behind. I really...

Pickford Stones —- Branthwaite Coleman ——————-————- Digne Onana ——- Iwobi James Richarlison —————— Gordon Lukaku :D Our problem isnt so much buying players, its letting them go… but thems the breaks being a little fish.

I keep hearing how bad DCL is. Since we sold Lukaku we have spent around 250million on Strikers and DCL is still clearly our best option. Crazy dat.

...what can we do? Just trying to think*, in the time DCL has been at the club, the only alternative reliable/high calibre forwards have been Lukaku and Richarlison. Some might argue Rooney, at a push. Anyway, the first two sold for big money and no genuine replacement of calibre brought in...

At least we had Richarlison and a few decent attacking players. Relegation fodder that has continually sold best players and not invested.

Or even since Lukaku left!

...finish that chance lindstrom set up well at the end Elite finishers get at least one from the ball Mykolenko put for him to chest on that he dragged wide or the one he brought down and trickled past the keeper easily cleared off the line Lukaku when he was here might even have scored all three

Nobody saw this season coming from him and I'm absolutely certain he won't repeat this level of performance next season. Had we have signed him nobody would have felt confident that he'd be enough up front, and Forest have quite a few far more technicality gifted players for us on account of...

Remember when everyone...and I mean just about EVERYONE, scoffed at Chris Wood coming in? Good fn GOD he'd be the best striker we'd have had since Lukaku.

Moyes bought Stones and had already given Barkley his debut.

And he actually wanted Demba Ba. Imagine if Moyes had Lukaku. We would have cracked the top 4 every year without doubt.

If my memory is right he had to Phil Neville retired and we sold Mofro. Fair point though. Lukaku, McCarthy and Barry were gold. Arguably Del, but he was more cult hero. He brought in a load it tat as well that year Kone, Alcaraz, McGeady came in on loan later as did Traore who got broke up...

He barely played Barkley and Stones never played at all as he was his last signing. Point is, Martinez didn’t just add Lukaku to Moyes’s team. Martinez virtually changed the entire midfield.

Moyes gets great credit for doing 90% of the work of building that side. But the point is: his utter lack of fantasy and bravery in big games was shown up the following season by the kamikaze ideologue Martinez - an inferior manager, but one who wasn't scared to gamble.

Moyes signed Stones mate and gave Barkley his debut.

Moyes had a higher xG in that last season than Martinez did his season.

...was so important in the Moyes side. Mccarthy was fantastic under Martinez but again not sure he would have brought anything above what we had the season before. Deulofeu only started 9 games for Martinez. I’m not disputing the above players impact but Lukaku was the main game changer for me!

….make it sound like it’s more luck than judgement which pretty much sums our transfers up :lol:

Must be our turn to hit upon a really good striker soon. I reckon every club in the division must have had one at some point since we had Lukaku.

Youre portraying it like the manager was the bottleneck. Far from it. Moyes surely would have won stuff with that team if he only had got financial backing to compete. We had a great first 15 but no strength in depth and big holes in certain positions.