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Lukaku. Yes or no

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TheBigIguana said:
Lukaku is going to end up scoring 400 to 500 goals in top class football and people are going to seriously act like he wasn't a good player. I'll never wrap my head around it.
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He's a very good player if you set up in the right way to take advantages of his strengths. He'd be more than a handy player to have in the squad at the moment.
 
Yarrgh said:
He's a very good player if you set up in the right way to take advantages of his strengths. He'd be more than a handy player to have in the squad at the moment.
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People like to blame him for not winning trophies but there isn't a striker in the world who was winning them in those United and Everton teams. Belgium is managed by Roberto Martinez.

He's got a chance to win the league with Inter this year and that should shut everyone up if they do it, but it won't.
 

Prevenger17 said:
I don't want to be that guy, but he scored the last goal in a 3-1 win. You can vault me on this, but I don't think Inter will be winning anything this year
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Nah they won 1-0 yesterday. That other goal was at the weekend.

Inter have as good a shot as anyone in Italy. Juventus aren't just not as dominant but they've been not as dominant for a couple years and managed to pull it out of their behinds anyway. That will definitely end. It's just that Milan, Napoli and possibly Roma all have as good a shot as Inter do.
 
TheBigIguana said:
Nah they won 1-0 yesterday. That other goal was at the weekend.

Inter have as good a shot as anyone in Italy. Juventus aren't just not as dominant but they've been not as dominant for a couple years and managed to pull it out of their behinds anyway. That will definitely end. It's just that Milan, Napoli and possibly Roma all have as good a shot as Inter do.
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Oh soz, you're right.

I suspect Juventus are going to win it again tbh, though leagues are far from predictable this year. I have maintained for years that Rom won't be part of a league winning team in any sort of competitive league. Could probably do it in one horse leagues like France or Germany. If he lifts the Serie A title, I'd be genuinely surprised but fair play to him if he does.
 
Prevenger17 said:
Oh soz, you're right.

I suspect Juventus are going to win it again tbh, though leagues are far from predictable this year. I have maintained for years that Rom won't be part of a league winning team in any sort of competitive league. Could probably do it in one horse leagues like France or Germany. If he lifts the Serie A title, I'd be genuinely surprised but fair play to him if he does.
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The funny thing is you could be right but I don't think it would have anything to do with Rom. Lautaro Martinez hasn't kicked on in the way people thought he might and the back line is extremely questionable for a Conte side. Rom is pretty easily their best player on current form. And despite all that people will use it as proof that Rom can't be in a winning side.
 

TheBigIguana said:
Some of this is blatantly untrue imo. One bit is the creativity part. I mean he isn't Henry but for a center forward he does more than enough. In fact yesterday (which from your post here I'd gather you didn't watch) he put a pretty much perfect ball into Lautaro who screwed up his touch.

The Vardy being far better part is a bit wild too but I don't really feel like typing that one out.
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No, you're correct, he was good for an assist as well as his goals here. Good ones as well. I remember a great through ball to Mirallas at Wolfsburg for example, or the ridiculous outside of the foot cross to Kone. You could see he was a striker himself as he knew exactly how to feed one if he ended up as the last passer in a move.

Time has proven what I said at the time in that his supporting forwards were truly abysmal in his time here and he did brilliantly to score as many as he did. His numbers are consistently exceptional and have established him for good as an elite striker and no amount of bleating on about his first touch will change that I'm afraid.
 
TheBigIguana said:
People like to blame him for not winning trophies but there isn't a striker in the world who was winning them in those United and Everton teams. Belgium is managed by Roberto Martinez.

He's got a chance to win the league with Inter this year and that should shut everyone up if they do it, but it won't.
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That same United team that won the Europa league and league Cup just right before Lukaku (who should make a team better in your opinion arrived), yeah no chance of silverware them.
 
The binman chronicles said:
That same United team that won the Europa league and league Cup just right before Lukaku (who should make a team better in your opinion arrived), yeah no chance of silverware them.
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United won that Europa League because of ping pong balls. Seriously, go back and look at the sides they beat before they got to the first decent one in Ajax in the final. And Ajax battered them but got unlucky on the night.
 
TheBigIguana said:
United won that Europa League because of ping pong balls. Seriously, go back and look at the sides they beat before they got to the first decent one in Ajax in the final. And Ajax battered them but got unlucky on the night.
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I remember they had a lucky run but they won those trophies and with the 'star' striker they should have had the opportunity to win more. It's just back peddling to say otherwise. Either he is a missing piece that is able to push a team on or he isn't.
 
The binman chronicles said:
I remember they had a lucky run but they won those trophies and with the 'star' striker they should have had the opportunity to win more. It's just back peddling to say otherwise. Either he is a missing piece that is able to push a team on or he isn't.
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I'm not sure those are the only options. That United side was missing a lot of pieces. It is still missing a lot of pieces.
 

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