He's a world class goalscorer but the rest of his play at times can be lacking.
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Lukaku - Love affair over ?
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Steve0
Player Valuation: £35m
He's done it once.
105 goals in 226
https://www.premierleague.com/players/4290/Romelu-Lukaku/stats?co=1&se=-1
Watching some Everton fans appear all "Rom-antic" is a bit sad.
The reason it's sad is that if he had played for that lot across the park he wouldn't even register on their minds as being anything other than an average player and someone back in the queue behind the likes of Torres, Suarez, Fowler, Owen, Firminho, Salah, Mane, Rush, Collymore....
He hit the 15 goal barrier 3 out of 4 seasons and the 20 goal barrier once hitting 25. Hardly Roy of the Rovers. Better rate than what we seen with the previous strikers we bought (Where if you add up the combined cost of AJ,Yak, Beattie, Saha, it still falls less than the cost of Rom) ... but aside the financial cost what did he also cost?
For me the true cost of Lukakus goals was that the team was all over the shop because of him. His inability to look after a ball cost us heavily... his pass completion, duels won and quite honestly his lack of effort in doing the hard yards was painful to watch. Remember his last game for us at old Trafford? The defence going nuts at him ...Yeah.
The teammates who he constantly berated when they couldn't make the ball reach him through the markers he attached himself to - and forever had to run like blue arsed flies to cover a Rom inspired counter attack from our opponents couldn't rely on him to help us close a game out cos he had to take 20 yard pot shots as part of his job interview.
All this "I wish we had a poor striker like him now" nonsense is laughable. He will be available cut price next year.... his true attitude is showing at old Trafford now.
The reason it's sad is that if he had played for that lot across the park he wouldn't even register on their minds as being anything other than an average player and someone back in the queue behind the likes of Torres, Suarez, Fowler, Owen, Firminho, Salah, Mane, Rush, Collymore....
He hit the 15 goal barrier 3 out of 4 seasons and the 20 goal barrier once hitting 25. Hardly Roy of the Rovers. Better rate than what we seen with the previous strikers we bought (Where if you add up the combined cost of AJ,Yak, Beattie, Saha, it still falls less than the cost of Rom) ... but aside the financial cost what did he also cost?
For me the true cost of Lukakus goals was that the team was all over the shop because of him. His inability to look after a ball cost us heavily... his pass completion, duels won and quite honestly his lack of effort in doing the hard yards was painful to watch. Remember his last game for us at old Trafford? The defence going nuts at him ...Yeah.
The teammates who he constantly berated when they couldn't make the ball reach him through the markers he attached himself to - and forever had to run like blue arsed flies to cover a Rom inspired counter attack from our opponents couldn't rely on him to help us close a game out cos he had to take 20 yard pot shots as part of his job interview.
All this "I wish we had a poor striker like him now" nonsense is laughable. He will be available cut price next year.... his true attitude is showing at old Trafford now.
dholliday
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yep, this is fair
goodisonopheliac
Player Valuation: £30m
That's the thing though, he's bang average by Liverpool standards. But not by Everton standards.
flibbyflob
Player Valuation: £40m
As if we could afford him and as if he'd come back anyway.
I was onto this lad after a few months of his loan move. I played enough football to spot when a player was very likely to "not feel up to it"..... I was one of them from time to time. This lad is like that a lot of the time.
Dunno what annoys me more.... Rom himself and his deluded ways or the Everton fans who indulged this overrated prima donna. So far removed from what we expect an Everton player to be like.
goodisonopheliac
Player Valuation: £30m
I'm eating, you rotter.
Right about what?
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