No mate, the Lukaku type goalscorer is a unicorn.
Lukaku is a one off striker for us since the PL began. And in general, clubs at our level, hell, clubs outside the top 6 don’t have strikers who score consistently like he did for us (Vardy being a huge outlier for Leicester).
We didn’t have a striker like Lukaku since the PL started. We have only ever had bang average strikers or the occasional flash in the pan strikers who manage 1 great season (yak, Saha, DCL).
People often compare to Lukaku as if we should be getting a striker of his calibre, they don’t exist barring a handful every season who generally play for the very top teams.
We need a striker right now that could get us 10-15 goals a season. Let’s not suggest that players capable of that can’t be found for under £40m. Other clubs find them for cheaper fees and then suckers like us come along after a season when they have been hyped by the media and offer 20x what they were originally bought for.
Ferguson “may” prove to be fantastic.
But he hasn’t really shown that so far barring a handful of goals has he? Like some are making out.