.....his touch will improve, it happens as you get older. Sometimes he actually has games where he links well and his touch is ok.
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.....his touch will improve, it happens as you get older. Sometimes he actually has games where he links well and his touch is ok.
Professor Toffee
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
But still stands around not bothered
bobafro
Player Valuation: £8m
He might be a blert... but how many strikers at that level aren't blerts.
Simply put... I don't think we're going to be able to attract better than him, would love one more year out of him with RK to give us a chance of CL - then the calibre of player we can attract will change.
Simply put... I don't think we're going to be able to attract better than him, would love one more year out of him with RK to give us a chance of CL - then the calibre of player we can attract will change.
TheFinnFan
Finners
For many it is quite important that player actually loves it here...
....Lineker described his performance as 'abject' the other night and you couldn't argue. I think that was as much about his attitude as his ability. Saying that, I'd prefer it if we kept him. Ideally we really need another top drawer option rather than a replacement.
Titus Bramble
Best centre half to grace the Premier League
For all the excitement of our newfound riches and ambition of challenging for titles, I don't understand how you can then go on to say you don't want a 1 in 2 striker playing for us. He can wander round the pitch with his finger up his arse for all I care if he can keep up that strike rate, if he scores those goals and we sort our defence out we'll be a force to be reckoned with
....Bob Latchford didn't run much but scored a few goals.
Titus Bramble
Best centre half to grace the Premier League
Bit before my time him, but my dad regularly tells me the same. Probably didn't have his finger up his arse though
Darth Vader
Player Valuation: £25m
He doesn't want to be here ffs
If he stays its because we pay through the nose to keep him, First signs of a rocky patch under Koeman him and his loud mouth dad will start piping up again
If he stays its because we pay through the nose to keep him, First signs of a rocky patch under Koeman him and his loud mouth dad will start piping up again
Seamus Colemole
Previously deathbyropeandglass
It's not that simple, no.
You may recall i've been quite vocal about his poor first touch since he's been here, mainly when putting across a counter argument to the "He's only *insert age here*" comments, stating that's whilst he may be young, and have a very very good goalscoring record for someone that young he still has over 200 first team appearances good clubs at a high level because he started playing first team football at a young age, so it really should not be as bad as it is.
It was an issue when he was in Belgium (believe his then coach commented on it) and it's still and issue now. Of course the most important thing about Romelu Lukaku is that he scores a lot of goals, and i always said that as long as he does that i'd happy with him at Everton even if he never improves other parts of his game.
And i don't think he has. He's has spells of good form where it's looked like he has, but he's inevitably his poor form and gone back to looking awful, ala since March. But it's not a case of a young player being out of form, that happens to all of them. Its a case of a player with something like 6 years first team experience at a high level who happens to be relatively young who on a regular basis fails to be able to control a football, something whihc is one of the very basics that players in their early teens can do.
Therefor, yes, his first touch is an issue (not including his poorness in the air and sometimes lack of workrate, but some players have them, some don't, but they can all control a football without it lauching into orbit).
And the reason why (for me) it is an issue even when he continues to bang in the goals is that football is a team game, every player in that 11 are playing for a team with the aim of winning that game. It doesn't matter who scores, it doesn't matter how many we win by (goal difference asside), it only matters that we win.
And when you have a player who causes our attacks to break down, causes us to lose possesion, and even at times causes us to concede goals because of his poor control it's an issue. Saying that a strikers role is to score goals therefor the aforementioned poor parts of his game don't matter is extremly short sighted really. The better his all round game is, the better Everton will be and the more games we will win. So if he could be better at the basics, as well as the hard part it would benefit us all. It's the disparity of having a player who is so good at the hard part of his job at such a young age but is so poor at the easy basic part.
In 2004/5 we finished 4th with Marcus Bent up front and his (i believe 6 goals), yet we haven't finished that high in 3 seasons of Lukakus far more. Because we were a better team with Bent at that time than we are now with Lukaku. Not that i;d want Bent up front now, i don't.
I just want Lukaku to get better at the basics so Everton get better as a team (and hopefull under a manager who wnats us to defend so Lukakus goals win us games rather than provide 3-4 losses).
Stuartisitc1878
Player Valuation: £25m
If we're looking to sign top quality players will any of them want to be here? We're going to have to pay big money and over the odds wages to get them through the door and move up the league quickly. Players will want to be here when we can give them CL football.
Professor Toffee
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
But he did love Everton!
Mikeonlythebestwilldo
Player Valuation: £20m
He needs to sit down and reflect on everything tbh
Darth Vader
Player Valuation: £25m
Top quality won't come here regardless of wages, Look at the RS
He only scores them against the poor teams though mate.
Everyone saying we should sell him, you do realise we would have to replace him with someone who scores as many or more goals than he does?
There's a reason why if we sell him we would get loads of money for him and that's because he scores goals, should we try and replace him we would have to spend more on a replacement of the same calibre.
The only thing we do need is some competition for the lad, someone to come in when he needs resting/dropping. He plays nearly every game and gets rushed back from injury as he's that important to us.
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