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Lukaku

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Blue Wiz said:
All kudos to Martinez for wanting to wait for Lukaku to make up his mind with the hope of signing him in 2 weeks or so. But lets look at it from another angle.

According to reports he's not ranked high in Chelsea and he wants to play. He knows about our interest in signing him and he knows he will play football here. If he is just letting time pass for 2 weeks before signing for us, I'd be questioning his interest in playing for us. It would feel like he went here as a last resort, just because noone else wanted him, not because he wanted to be here. While I would be very happy that he signed for us at that time, I would also wonder if he is the right man for us due to his reluctancy to sign up.

It's one thing if the negotiation for the fee between us and Chelsea draged out, or if the negotiation of his personal terms took a while. But if it's just a refusal to commit because he's waiting for something better...
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Or he's on holiday, we are confident of him signing and giving him space and a fee with Chelsea has already been agreed.
 
Blue Wiz said:
All kudos to Martinez for wanting to wait for Lukaku to make up his mind with the hope of signing him in 2 weeks or so. But lets look at it from another angle.

According to reports he's not ranked high in Chelsea and he wants to play. He knows about our interest in signing him and he knows he will play football here. If he is just letting time pass for 2 weeks before signing for us, I'd be questioning his interest in playing for us. It would feel like he went here as a last resort, just because noone else wanted him, not because he wanted to be here. While I would be very happy that he signed for us at that time, I would also wonder if he is the right man for us due to his reluctancy to sign up.

It's one thing if the negotiation for the fee between us and Chelsea draged out, or if the negotiation of his personal terms took a while. But if it's just a refusal to commit because he's waiting for something better...
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Fair post Wiz but, in fairness to the big fella, he has always indicated his intention to play CL. We can't offer him that this season, but we need to build a compelling case about how a team, built around him, are expecting to be there next season. He knows full well just how close Roberto got to keeping his promise, and he knows the team & the squad as well.
 
bluemangroup said:
You should know better than to post gifs in the transfer thread tbf mate.
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I only posted 1 an 'all.......and it was funny ffs.

Bugle posted about 8 pages worth and his were largely mince.

Just on volume alone he deserved a ban, add in the low quality and the fact that he's a sex pest, and it was defo fair.
 
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Lukaku seemed to love the club when here but you can't fault him for thinking of his career.

Apparently Aubameyang has a 6m release clause and we where in for him last season and he was our top target which may explain getting a striker on the last day.

If that's the case and we could get him for 6m he could be our plan B or even as a 2nd choice striker.
 
Foot Long Hot Dog said:
I only posted 1 an 'all.......and it was funny ffs.

Bugle posted about 8 pages worth and his were largely mince.

Just on volume alone he deserved a ban, add in the low quality and the fact that he's a sex pest, and it was defo fair.
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It was a terrible gif mate. You deserved to get binned from that thread. Just accept the punishment. Stop going on and on and on about it.
 
Adversus said:
Lukaku seemed to love the club when here but you can't fault him for thinking of his career.

Apparently Aubameyang has a 6m release clause and we where in for him last season and he was our top target which may explain getting a striker on the last day.

If that's the case and we could get him for 6m he could be our plan B or even as a 2nd choice striker.
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Bollocks, why would Dortmund put a £6m release clause in for a player they paid more than that for. Utter tosh, not to mention why they'd bother selling now?
 

Is Lukaku back from holiday yet?
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Chill out ffs! ▪▪▪▪▪ Did he have a nice time?
 
BiggyRat said:
Fair post Wiz but, in fairness to the big fella, he has always indicated his intention to play CL. We can't offer him that this season, but we need to build a compelling case about how a team, built around him, are expecting to be there next season. He knows full well just how close Roberto got to keeping his promise, and he knows the team & the squad as well.
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I know all that. And I do hope he will play for us in the coming seasons, since he is an important piece that we have lacked for many years... a prolific goalscoring striker. But the fact remains that he might not be good enough to get a starting Place in a CL team, at least not yet. Otherwise there would be CL clubs swarming around and snapping him up. Noone is though, at least not openly. He is carrying a big pricetag and he hasn't shown he can compete in Europe and he failed in the WC.

My other fear is that Martinez will wait for weeks until Lukaku decides not to come here and then we are faced with the fact that we might be rushed into getting a mediocre striker for an inflated price. For even if Martinez is using the loanmarket and loans a striker. What is he going to tell that striker? "You will be our main choise as a striker, unless we sign a better one before the window closes. If we do you will be parked on the bench, just like you are in your current club?" He can't really go out and promise a starting spot if he is hoping to get Lukaku, and no striker of Lukaku's calibre would want to come here on loan to get matchtime if he risk facing the bench here to if Lukaku signs up 1-2 weeks later.
 

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