Lukaku

[MartSlinger]

Correct. He wants to avoid looking like he's talking about other teams players that's all. He believes 100% we are signing him. I can assure you he's telling people that privately.

I heard a while ago that our fitness coaches etc were told to make personal plans for Rom, thats how confident they were of him returning.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Until we hear something from a genuinely credible source it is best not to believe anything about the Lukaku situation.

Because Lukaku spent an entire season with Everton it does change the dynamics of a transfer somewhat.
RM will know Lukaku and probably his representatives well. I am sure they have each others phone number and there will have been
some communication between them in recent months...if only for RM to wish him the best before a World Cup game.

It may not completely influence the thinking of Lukaku in deciding on a club, but it almost definitely would keep RM in the loop
with the decision making process.
I think Everton will have known for a long time what his personal demands are.
What is not known is the Chelsea/Lukaku situation.

Lukaku's agent is the same one as Mirallas's and the Belgium kid Henen that we look close to signing for the U21s.

 

[terraloon]

Correct. He wants to avoid looking like he's talking about other teams players that's all. He believes 100% we are signing him. I can assure you he's telling people that privately.

Alas just the same as Wenger was 100% certain that they were signing Ba only for Mourino to change his mind.

 

[whiteshadow]

I don't understand why people take that video of Martinez coming off the pitch seriously.

He's coming off the pitch, some guy in the crowd is shouting some question at him (that he probably didn't even hear properly) but could make out that it was a question by the tone of his voice, so just replies (of course we will). It's not what I'd personally regard as solid evidence. It's flimsy at best, bordering on just desperate.

Doesn't seem likely that any manager would say that in public, even if that was what they thought. Especially one as astute as Martinez.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

 

[Tubey]

I don't understand why people take that video of Martinez coming off the pitch seriously.

He's coming off the pitch, some guy in the crowd is shouting some question at him (that he probably didn't even hear properly) but could make out that it was a question by the tone of his voice, so just replies (of course we will). It's not what I'd personally regard as solid evidence. It's flimsy at best, bordering on just desperate.

Doesn't seem likely that any manager would say that in public, even if that was what they thought. Especially one as astute as Martinez.

Yeah because it's completely normal for any human being saying "of course we will" if he hadn't heard what was said.

He heard it crystal clear, otherwise he'd just laugh or wave.

 

[johnnydawg68]

Yeah because it's completely normal for any human being saying "of course we will" if he hadn't heard what was said.

He heard it crystal clear, otherwise he'd just laugh or wave.

He heard it, he meant it, but upon reflection he decided it wasn't wise to be talking about players that are still currently under contract with other teams. He realized he shouldn't have said it, but that doesn't mean it's not true.

 

[Tubey]

He heard it, he meant it, but upon reflection he decided it wasn't wise to be talking about players that are still currently under contract with other teams. He realized he shouldn't have said it, but that doesn't mean it's not true.

Exactomondo dude.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

What he says to a random lad when he doesn't know he's being filmed and what he says to a gathering of cutthroat press whilst a petulant Mourinho listens on is VERY different.

 

[Blue Cheese]

We need a catchy theme tune for this soap opera...

 

[efc.1878]

 

[allen]

Yeah because it's completely normal for any human being saying "of course we will" if he hadn't heard what was said.

He heard it crystal clear, otherwise he'd just laugh or wave.

Way too much analysis going into a throw-away remark on here.

He just chucked a throw-away reply back. That's all. He's even tried to get out of it in an oblique fashion.

 

[toffeejack]

He heard it, he meant it, but upon reflection he decided it wasn't wise to be talking about players that are still currently under contract with other teams. He realized he shouldn't have said it, but that doesn't mean it's not true.

yep, he probably didn't think in the heat of the moment that it would be videod, especially not by someone near enough to hear it, probably explains the sort of back tracking he said earlier today.

he's probably just buzzing off his tits that it's nearly done and wants to state it, but knows he can't.

 

[toffeejack]

I heard a while ago that our fitness coaches etc were told to make personal plans for Rom, thats how confident they were of him returning.

just like liverpool produced tshirts and job applications for a league champions parade?

 

[Jayhow15]

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

Your avatar is a great (albeit fooking weird ) book !!