Romelu Lukaku

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I'd take £100m if he was keen on leaving. It's £10m over the world record fee.

As brilliant as he is, we've seen with Stones what happens with unhappy players. To be fair though the price is irrelevant IMO, all that matters is who we bring in to replace him/improve the squad.
 

Lukaku isnt stupid. His mate who is the same age, is rated on a similar level has just been bought for £89mill.

He is a proven 20 goal a season PL striker who people, including himself, say will be one of the best in the world so why wouldnt he command the same fee as his mate? He's not going to think we will let him go for £50mill is he.
 
Catfish Blues said:
Really ?

Even if City, Utd and Arsenal win all their games in hand then, with 5 games left we'd be something like 7 or 8 points behind top 4. Now, at the top of the table, I grant you, that's a fair gap, but the propensity for Blues to be able to belittle what we're doing, and where we might end up, is staggering.
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I just think with EL to contend with Top 4 is out the window. 5/6th is achievable but I don't see the benefit of keeping an unhappy Rom when we could sell for a realistic price of say £85 million and invest in players for the long term view who believe in the project and not constantly having 1 eye on the door.
 

AndyC said:
Not necessarily... they could just simply be putting it out there that if any smart alec thinks they can come and plunder him from us cheaply in the summer transfer window, think again.

Two years on his contract... you want him, stump up £100 million and we'll consider it... anything else, jog on !
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Bet you he is sold for less than that
 
davek said:
...and he wont want to go into next summer's WC with a new club to find then.

We are entering crunch time here with this. Lukaku wants out now and I doubt it will be stopped.
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Why not? As a confident player he will see the World Cup as the perfect stage to achieve his elevation to the top clubs he craves. But to get there in the first place he cant afford to down tools sas you suggest.
 
The Rhino said:
I just think with EL to contend with Top 4 is out the window. 5/6th is achievable but I don't see the benefit of keeping an unhappy Rom when we could sell for a realistic price of say £85 million and invest in players for the long term view who believe in the project and not constantly having 1 eye on the door.
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Except that Rom never ever looks like he's unhappy here
 
The Rhino said:
I just think with EL to contend with Top 4 is out the window. 5/6th is achievable but I don't see the benefit of keeping an unhappy Rom when we could sell for a realistic price of say £85 million and invest in players for the long term view who believe in the project and not constantly having 1 eye on the door.
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Fair enough, but, if he stays another season and doesn't down tools ( and I don't think he's the type of player to down tools ), then, with two or three good signings over the summer, we should be in the mix for the CL places. Obviously being in the mix and actually qualifying are two very different things, but if we get into the CL group stage, then we'd make a fair amount of the money up which is the difference between selling him with two years of his contract, and one year.

Most players will have one eye on the door, that's just the reality of the situation. Anyone we sign this summer will likely have an eye on the door if they don't see us in CL places in the very near future, so we have to do our best to deliver on that. Obviously with seven teams looking for CL places in England there are no guarantees in life, for either us as fans or the players, so we just have to take that as a given and pretty much ignore it.
 

nsno-chris said:
No, I think you're wrong it's exactly how it works.

We owe him and his feelings nothing, he's earned a very good wage from us while doing his job. The only thing unethical is him earning tens of millions of pounds a year while people contributing to his salary could be struggling to pay their mortgages
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...says the man who backs Andersons' half a billion quid spending cuts. :oops:
 
balggy said:
what porkies did he say on Sissoko?
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He said we had him then Sissoko changed his mind...something denied completely by Sissoko and never come back to by Moshiri who's cock and bull story over keeping the family together by sticking with McCarthy persuaded no one.
 
Catfish Blues said:
Fair enough, but, if he stays another season and doesn't down tools ( and I don't think he's the type of player to down tools ), then, with two or three good signings over the summer, we should be in the mix for the CL places. Obviously being in the mix and actually qualifying are two very different things, but if we get into the CL group stage, then we'd make a fair amount of the money up which is the difference between selling him with two years of his contract, and one year.

Most players will have one eye on the door, that's just the reality of the situation. Anyone we sign this summer will likely have an eye on the door if they don't see us in CL places in the very near future, so we have to do our best to deliver on that. Obviously with seven teams looking for CL places in England there are no guarantees in life, for either us as fans or the players, so we just have to take that as a given and pretty much ignore it.
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Even if by some miracle against the odds we qualify next season we'll still have to sell him that summer as he'll only have 1 year left on his deal, and as Liverpool, Spurs (pre Pochettino) and Leicester have proven a 1 off season in the CL does little to attract CL players, Leicester lost Kante to Chelsea who didn't even have European football this season.

We need to build for the future, signings like Schnerderlin and Gueye who believe in what we want to achieve. I literally see no benefit of keeping Rom next season if he doesn't want to be here/sign a new contract. More to lose than gain imo
 

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