His new agent i see working the media very hard to earn himself some money.
Snideness.
Snideness.
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If scoring 10 PL goals year after year can easily be found a hell of a lot cheaper why haven't we found it often before Rom? Or other teams with our sort of budget?
As you say every year there will be cases where a new striker comes in and they do well but then they have to stay
a) injury free ( Sturridge)
b) happy in a foreign country (Negredo, Michu etc)
c) confident (Jelavic)
How many strikers have managed 10PL goals for 3 years running other than the best like Rooney?
Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
Do you think that £28m is the going rate for a 10 goal a-season striker?
Well at that time he was a player who had got 15 PL goals two years in a row at a young age so yes. Not many on these lists that haven't been worth that sort of fee.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_Premier_League_goal_scorers_by_season#2012.E2.80.9313
applecrumble
Player Valuation: £10m
Lukaku is a goal machine we need to build the team around him - simple.
sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
For someone with his goal scoring record and potential yes.
Hes better than the one season wonders but not quite world class level so his value shows that hes in between.
Btw is Lukaku classed as homegrown? Iirc the current rules (although soon to change) are that if you are resigstered for 3 years at a british club before your 21st birthday then you count but might have that wrong.
Seamus Colemole
Previously deathbyropeandglass
Cause we didn't sign those players?
By the same token, if Lukaku is so good that he cost £28 million and scored more goals by 21 than Messi and Aguero how come he got outscored last season by other apparently gash strikers?
Hell, the striker he replaced scored 8 in 26 compared to his 10 in 36 last season.
Why is it that a few days ago the Everton coaching team admitted they need to work on other parts of his game that are poor in order to make him a better player, yet all i seemed to read on here is that he scores goals and nothing else matters?
Because there is way more to a strikers game (especially in our system) than simply scoring goals. He needs to do that and help other players score goals, help the team play better as a unit. Not score 10 goals and think it's job done when we finish 11th.
Hence why the coaching team are working on it, they aren't blinded by little charts about how he outscored Messi by the age of 21 and don't blow smoke up his arse about how he's only 22 so it doesn't matter if his control is so bad he sets up the opposition for goals because of it.
If people could just see the whole picture and acknowledge his faults rather than narrow mindedly thinking "oh he scores goals so nothing else matters" I wouldn't have to keep pointing out how poor he was last season.
It's not that people are saying he's perfect, they're remarking that he's the best striker we have had for a long while and certainly the one who will get even better, and mostly that it's very harsh and peculiar to see the amount of criticism he gets from our own.
applecrumble
Player Valuation: £10m
We were so gash last year, Dixie would have struggled to get 10.
Even good strikers have bad seasons, Rooney is one of the few who despite being played out of position or injured has always managed to deliver even at a young age but that is what makes him superb.
Agree with you that there are parts of Roms game that need to be developed, not sure that there are too many people that disagree tbh. He was poor at times last season but he was also great at times, it is not unusual for any striker to be erratic let alone a young one.
You just seem to expect him to be this fully developed and consistent machine because we paid 28m and it doesn't work that way. Soldado cost that much and can only dream of having as bad a season as Rom
larrygobfiend
Player Valuation: £40m
Close season GOT is a living hell!
Lukaku's sound.... if UTD are genuinly interested, he'll be off and you will all have to be content with the likes of Greedy Grant Hoult.
Lukaku's sound.... if UTD are genuinly interested, he'll be off and you will all have to be content with the likes of Greedy Grant Hoult.
Carlito
Player Valuation: £40m
Still, it's not quite the same as suggesting that it's unusual for a Premier League striker to score ten goals in three consecutive seasons.
There seems to be a high turnover of forwards at the moment, but in recent memory there have more than a few non-elite (in terms of price) players managing to do it. Keane, Defoe, Bellamy, Giroud, Benteke, Bent, Cisse, McCarthy and Ba all spring to mind.
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