Lukaku

[Prevenger17]

Wow that's RAWKish to the max.

I'll have to try and beat it. Perhaps a rewriting of Bohemian Rhapsody to include Lukaku or something.

I'll start:


Is this the real life?
Is this just GOT?
Caught in a timewarp,
No escape from financial reality
Davek is right, Bill's lodging it overseas
He's not a poor boy, he's got a beachhouse in Taihiti
While we're left with no
options in attack,
No cov-er
at right back
Even Ferencvaros,
won't give up Momo Besic for free,
For free
Billo, just sign the man,
put the pen right in his hand,
cave to his agent's demands,
Billo, our season's almost begun,
And we need someone to put some goals away,
Billo, ooooohhh
Does Lukaku wanna sign?
If I look at this thread this time tomorrow,
Will we have Rom, or is Kone on?
Say it's not the latter

 

[Chimpy Glassman]

Richard Buxton @RichardBuxton_ · 4m
Romelu Lukaku has scored more league goals by 21 than Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney & Michael Owen at that age - yet Chelsea still want rid...?

Shut up Richard Buxton.

 

[EverBlue86]

Gone from certain to we need a backup up plan incase he doesn't join in the space of 24 hours lol

 

[zirc]

I don't expect us to buy 6+ players.

I don't think anyone ever expected that.

3-4 permanent players + 2-3 loans is perfectly acceptable so long as the quality is there. We don't have a poor team, we don't need to splash cash everywhere. Just in a few clear areas - 2 strikers, a winger or two, maybe an attacking mid. Could have done with a backup RB, but that ship has likely sailed. And of course CM, which hopefully Besic and Barry handle.

So Besic, Barry, Lukaku, <winger/striker perm> then loan winger/striker and some other coverage, maybe an AM?

We'll be fine if we don't fill that all out before the start of the season. We need a striker before the season starts. If we get Lukaku before the season begins, we'll have the team that finished with 72 pts last year with business still to do. Minus Del, but plus Besic.

No need for panic yet.

We didn't have European competition last year mate, that will make a huge difference to our end of season points total if the squad stays the same size. Not to mention all the clubs around us are adding CL quality players.

 

[Steve Wigan]

Putting £20mil aside for Lukaku, we can hardly afford £4mil for Besic, I doubt we'll get another <winger/striker>.

...and you know this, how?

 

[RaleighBlue]

We didn't have European competition last year mate, that will make a huge difference to our end of season points total if the squad stays the same size. Not to mention all the clubs around us are adding CL quality players.

Arsenal has.

Chelsea and City have, but who cares about them.

Liverpool have not. Nor have Spurs. United may have, and probably will.

Yes, we need more people. I agreed with that. We need two more by August 16th (assuming we already have Besic/Barry). Then probably need another 2-3 before deadline day.

This is not unreasonable or far off of what Martinez has said.

3 loan players is fine. Worked out last year.

 

[n01efc]

I've never heard this stat before, does anyone have a picture that represents this stat better by any chance?

 

[meagher94]

Hey lads, did you know?

 

[meagher94]

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Haha great timing.

 

[navidson]

The problem I have with the whole Lukaku thing is : - How have we managed to have a 200+ debate and structure our entire transfer window around a target that, for as far as I'm concerned, we haven't actually made a bid for?

All this chat about Lukaku being away on holiday - Surely the first aspect of any transfer is for a buying club to make a bid, and then a selling club telling that club whether the bid is successful or needs to be upped. This should all have been done by now, and if it had been, would have made the national press. Then, when Lukaku came back from holiday we would have started discussing personal terms with him - as his parent club would have allowed us to.

It's astonishing that so many forum pages have been created on the assumption that we'd be signing a player just because we had him on loan and he once hugged our manager

 

[Prevenger17]

It's astonishing that so many forum pages have been created on the assumption that we'd be signing a player just because we had him on loan and he once hugged our manager

But there was such genuine warmth in that hug.

 

[zirc]

Arsenal has.

Chelsea and City have, but who cares about them.

Liverpool have not. Nor have Spurs. United may have, and probably will.

Yes, we need more people. I agreed with that. We need two more by August 16th (assuming we already have Besic/Barry). Then probably need another 2-3 before deadline day.

This is not unreasonable or far off of what Martinez has said.

3 loan players is fine. Worked out last year.

I would love to get quality loan players in, and I think we will. But you have to assume spurs and utd will be better this year, and when you add in our European fixtures I don't think simply preserving last year's squad will get us to 72 points again.

 

[paulbefc]

The problem I have with the whole Lukaku thing is : - How have we managed to have a 200+ debate and structure our entire transfer window around a target that, for as far as I'm concerned, we haven't actually made a bid for?

All this chat about Lukaku being away on holiday - Surely the first aspect of any transfer is for a buying club to make a bid, and then a selling club telling that club whether the bid is successful or needs to be upped. This should all have been done by now, and if it had been, would have made the national press. Then, when Lukaku came back from holiday we would have started discussing personal terms with him - as his parent club would have allowed us to.

It's astonishing that so many forum pages have been created on the assumption that we'd be signing a player just because we had him on loan and he once hugged our manager

I'm struggling to think how you could possibly have missed the manager saying we will sign him, numerous players talking about him signing and the head of recruitment at the club confirming on the radio that Lukaku actually wants to sign permanently.

 

[RaleighBlue]

I would love to get quality loan players in, and I think we will. But you have to assume spurs and utd will be better this year, and when you add in our European fixtures I don't think simply preserving last year's squad will get us to 72 points again.

Why? They've added a LB and a backup keeper. If we're assuming they'll be better, then we should assume we'll be better as we have just as much information to go on.

I agree with the statement that preserving last year's squad isn't enough. No one is advocating it though. Martinez explicitly said that we need 2 players in before the start of the season, not 2 players by the end of the window. So if we get two in by the start of the season, plus 2-3 more beyond that by the end of the window, then we will have reached the 6 or 7 he originally stated.

I think we can also assume that Garbutt and McAleny will see some first team action this season, at least in the cups or in the early European games.

 

[navidson]

I'm struggling to think how you could possibly have missed the manager saying we will sign him, numerous players talking about him signing and the head of recruitment at the club confirming on the radio that Lukaku actually wants to sign permanently.

I saw the manager respond glibly to an off the cuff remark, players talking about how nice it would be to have him here, and somebody i've never heard make a statement before talk about the potential of the move.

It's a simple question really - Have we made a firm bid to Chelsea which has been accepted? Or have we enquired about his availability and they've told us to wait until he comes back from holiday to see what happens? Either 3 quarters of this deal have been completed, or nothing at all - I'm leaning towards the latter.