I am not on a wind up. It was just food for thought.
Personally, I think goals are the only thing that Lukaku brings to the team. That is why I looked into the goals. I agree that he is a prolific goalscorer, and the best we've had since the eighties. I just don't think we should be too worried when he goes, as - and this is just opinion - he doesn't actually improve the position of the team That opinion is not based on the "take his goals out" stuff. It is more along the lines of "he scores the goals to the detriment of the rest of the team". For instance, in Lukaku's four seasons here, we have scored 228 premier league goals. In the four seasons prior to that, we scored 216. We didn't have a prolific goalscorer in the team then, yet scored only 12 goals less in four seasons. That doesn't really prove anything either, but to me it suggests that we will do fine without him. To me, it suggests that the goals will come from somewhere else. My reasoning is that almost every attack that involves Lukaku, either ends up with him scoring, or him messing it up for someone else.
Basically I would want to keep someone like Lukaku - just not Lukaku. He is a great goalscorer, just a poor team player. Everyone else on the pitch do their job. The midfield are industrious, and the defence are pretty solid now. Granted they do make the occasional mistake, but they all do their job - every game. Lukaku doesn't. He doesn't take ownership. If he doesn't score, it's because he didn't get the right ball, or no one put it on a plate for him. Everton appear to not be bothered, when he can't be bothered. You get pretty much the same effort week in, week out from the midfield and defence. The only difference is, is that sometimes the focal point of the team - Lukaku - can't be bothered putting a shift in. So the whole team get slated for it.
Apart from two disastrous seasons under Martinez, we are still where we are - 5th-7th. So we aren't any better off with him in the team. He doesn't bring anything else apart from goals that would come from somewhere else anyway.
