Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
I'd have him back here in a heartbeat.
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Romelu Lukaku
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All the rumours pointed to him joining Chelsea. I suspect Chelsea picked up the better all round player in Morata.
How much would I like either at Everton at this moment in time? A lot.
How much would I like either at Everton at this moment in time? A lot.
He'll start once, Mourinho starts talking up his next managerial job at PSG.
It's as clear as day to some of us. He was destined for PSG, because it is the only domestic league of any note he could realistically win.
Pogba will join him there too
* I'm not in anyway suggesting that they have any kind of relationship, other than very good friends, who possibly " top and tail" when having sleep overs at each other's house.
You think of the great strikers of the PL era and they had more fight in their little finger than Rom has in his whole body. Drogba, Henry, Rooney, Suarez. Even when their team was crap they would pop up with vital goals. This lad doesn't have that
I can't fault his goal scoring record, but his first touch is appalling. He would be awful in our side, but shine in others. Great goalscorer but not a technically gifted footballer.
EFC78
Player Valuation: £25m
Think the opinions about him from a lot of football fans are too knee jerk. When he's scoring he's lauded as being a top striker and then when he hits a bad patch he gets slated and written off.
It's quite clear though that whilst he is an excellent goalscorer, he is struggling to push on to that top level of striker due to certain flaws in his game. Poor first touch, ineffective against the top sides away from home, sulks if he isn't getting service, lack of fight in some games. I think his goal scoring is actually understated by a lot of Evertonians though.
The problem he has now he's moved to a club the size of Manchester United is that he has the expectation on his shoulders to be the finished article and to be scoring in big games which he still isn't doing. The other issue is that their fans are deluding themselves that because they carry the name Manchester United they have an automatic right to be the best and City playing how they are must be killing them. As a result their desperation for Lukaku to be better than he is, is even greater. I think they need to appreciate the rest of their team need to step up and not just Lukaku. For all his flaws, he is what he is and if they had players who created more chances for him he'd be sticking them away.
It's quite clear though that whilst he is an excellent goalscorer, he is struggling to push on to that top level of striker due to certain flaws in his game. Poor first touch, ineffective against the top sides away from home, sulks if he isn't getting service, lack of fight in some games. I think his goal scoring is actually understated by a lot of Evertonians though.
The problem he has now he's moved to a club the size of Manchester United is that he has the expectation on his shoulders to be the finished article and to be scoring in big games which he still isn't doing. The other issue is that their fans are deluding themselves that because they carry the name Manchester United they have an automatic right to be the best and City playing how they are must be killing them. As a result their desperation for Lukaku to be better than he is, is even greater. I think they need to appreciate the rest of their team need to step up and not just Lukaku. For all his flaws, he is what he is and if they had players who created more chances for him he'd be sticking them away.
This is misreading the problem with him. The fact is actual top strikers work to involve the rest of the team in the attack and advance the team 10 yards up the pitch by dropping into space to receive the ball, knocking it out wide, pinning themselves to a defender and holding it up etc.
So that's the actual issue - Lukaku isn't getting service because against decent clubs he's so anonymous that it's effectively like playing with ten men. He has to be responsible for being part of the system that gets the side into positions to send the ball into him for goalscoring opportunities; he very rarely does that.
Luckily for him, he has a run of three games in the league coming up now where he should be able to resume normal duty as a flat track bully for a bit and knock a few in, which will disguise his obvious flaws to the FIFA/Fantasy Football generation once again. But the fact will remain that Lukaku has done exactly what I knew Lukaku would do - make hay while the sun shines against average to poor opposition, where strength can compensate for a total lack of technical ability, then completely disappear once the fixtures begin to feature a few big clubs or important games.
You've missed Pogba and Fellaini. Said this a while back against Liverpool.
Mourinho used them to compensate for Lukaku's lack of ability earlier in the season, instead playing to Lukaku's strengths - which is basically being a poacher. Without both of them, you're seeing Lukaku's problems become very apparent, and you have to instead play a limited game rather than turn over possession over and over again in the final third.
You also badly miss Ibrahimovic. Against top clubs, you need a striker of that calibre to effectively compete on the front foot.
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