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Lukaku

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blue_aussie05 said:
To be honest, for 28m I'd have wanted a lot more goals than 20. I think we paid way too much for him, but I still thought he'd get around that many this season. He wasn't far off that last year after a spell out with injury, and a bit of a drought before the injury.
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Presumably that means at least 15 league goals as Rom was excellent in the Europa and we got knocked out early in both cups so little scope for improvement there.

However there are only 5 players in the league this season that have scored that many (Aguero, Costa, Sanchez, Austin and Kane), even Rooney only has 12, 14 in total.
 
blue_aussie05 said:
Didn't Lukaku score 15 league goals for us last season? I certainly would have expected at least the same again, instead of a lesser tally
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Yes he did, he also got over that the season before.

But few strikers, even very good ones like Rooney do it year in year out, every year. Add in Rom experiencing a World Cup for the first time, plus playing in the Europa just think you were expecting a awful lot for him to score 25+ goals all competitions this season.

Perhaps the distribution of his goals could have been different, more league less Europa but even Alexis Sanchez in a much better team has only scored 23 all competitions. Of the current league strikers think it only Aguero (32) and Kane (28) that have 25+ all comps.
 

LinekersLegs said:
Yes he did, he also got over that the season before.

But few strikers, even very good ones like Rooney do it year in year out, every year. Add in Rom experiencing a World Cup for the first time, plus playing in the Europa just think you were expecting a awful lot for him to score 25+ goals all competitions this season.

Perhaps the distribution of his goals could have been different, more league less Europa but even Alexis Sanchez in a much better team has only scored 23 all competitions. Of the current league strikers think it only Aguero (32) and Kane (28) that have 25+ all comps.
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Maybe one day you'll get through to them...but I doubt it.
 
blue_aussie05 said:
To be honest, for 28m I'd have wanted a lot more goals than 20. I think we paid way too much for him, but I still thought he'd get around that many this season. He wasn't far off that last year after a spell out with injury, and a bit of a drought before the injury.
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we didn't pay 28m because of the player he is now, his potential is obviously factored into it.
 

Lukaku is the problem, not the solution. His lack of mobility is embarassing. He doesn't pull his markers around because he rarely moves. To have paid £28m for him was an absolute joke. With Martinez wanting his side to be very slow and deliberate in everything they do, to have bought an immobile striker was the last thing he needed.
 
mrb85 said:
Lukaku is the problem, not the solution. His lack of mobility is embarassing. He doesn't pull his markers around because he rarely moves. To have paid £28m for him was an absolute joke. With Martinez wanting his side to be very slow and deliberate in everything they do, to have bought an immobile striker was the last thing he needed.
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Are you having a laugh mate ?
 
mrb85 said:
Lukaku is the problem, not the solution. His lack of mobility is embarassing. He doesn't pull his markers around because he rarely moves. To have paid £28m for him was an absolute joke. With Martinez wanting his side to be very slow and deliberate in everything they do, to have bought an immobile striker was the last thing he needed.
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Rom is not the problem at all.
I hope the coaches get monitored because like kev and ross,rom has gone backwards this season.
Once we create more and play to his strengths we will see the real rom.
 

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