Kinda like a belgian Micky Quinn
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Romelu Lukaku
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Kinda like a belgian Micky Quinn
trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
We press from the front, with richarlison, sigurdsson, and Bernard putting the graft in. We might carry him very well. The reason he has not performed at utd is because as a team they don't get about the pitch enough. They're 4th from bottom in terms of km covered, if I remember correctly. That exposes the weakness in his game.
He's done lads...... certain players fit certain clubs. He's bitten off more than he can chew and his faux confidence will not drag him out of this mess.
His only hope is that a lower half club with no other recognised goal threat is prepared to spend around £40m+ on him the way palace went big for Benteke and Sunderland did for bent and that they will tolerate his mardy lazy ways in the knowledge that if the ball finds him in the box he will get 14 goals that will may be secure safety.
He was lucky that we had no other recognised strikers when he was here.... he got played when he should have been benched all too often.
He's in the Chiquarito/Andy Carroll/Benteke club now.
His only hope is that a lower half club with no other recognised goal threat is prepared to spend around £40m+ on him the way palace went big for Benteke and Sunderland did for bent and that they will tolerate his mardy lazy ways in the knowledge that if the ball finds him in the box he will get 14 goals that will may be secure safety.
He was lucky that we had no other recognised strikers when he was here.... he got played when he should have been benched all too often.
He's in the Chiquarito/Andy Carroll/Benteke club now.
You can't press from the front and have a passenger ... he will always allow the pressed defender an option to pass to. It's all or nothing. Watch defenders on the ball when lukaku plays.... they stroll the ball out.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
some people have a propensity to get bigger as they age. perhaps Rom is one of those. I suspect he eats very healthy foods and exercises rigorously...but genetics might play a part.
trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
It's about balance, though. We currently have a striker who presses well but is not a prolific goalscorer. Lukaku is lazy but can score when given the chance. In an ideal world you'd want a striker who does both, but they would be at Real or Barca and worth over £150m.
The fact that lukaku doesn't have the ability to press, the fitness or the ability hold up the ball makes his supposed finishing fruitless.
If it was 1994 he would be ok. But it's not.
trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
He was top scorer in the league a couple of seasons ago, so fruitless is not an accurate description.
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deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
He's always been a big lad. I recall seeing a pic of him in an under 13 tournament...he was man-sized then. He dwarfed the other lads playing.He's not fat, he's big boned.
goodisonopheliac
Player Valuation: £30m
Like Barkley. Both of them made other 13 year olds look tiny.
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Minimeister
Player Valuation: £35m
Puts in performances our centre forwards can only dream of. Just needs to do it more often which should be here were we all love the big man.
He's never been top scorer in the league.
And when he got that 20+ tally we finished on the same points we would have done without his goals..... 7th.
We were set up to play for him. We conceded possession at an alarming rate due to his inability with the ball. Midfielders couldn't commit and most were spending time and energy getting back after he lost it.
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