Because that's called putting all your eggs in one basket, and it's also playing the football that doesn't win anything. Want proof? We're 7th and he's the leagues leading goalscorer. There's your proof.
I used to buy the "play to his strengths" angle, but I just honestly don't anymore because we quite clearly already do.
You know who didn't? Chelsea, and he bombed, because they expected him to actually be involved in overall play. Complete fish out of water, totally surplus to requirements almost immediately. He goes to West Brom - a counter-attacking side where he runs the shoulder - and he excels. He comes here, he excels doing the same thing, but flops badly and disappears for 85 minutes a game whenever a side defends deep or organise well, resorting to just hoping he'll sniff out a goal to hide all ills.
No, we really don't need to waste time building around this guy when it's a tactic too easily nullified and therefore has a ceiling in terms of achievement, and the player himself has no desire to be here.
The correct way forward is to build a side that plays football as a unit, can assert quality over the lesser sides and compete with the top sides by playing the right way and for once, just once, stop bending over to a prima donna footballer and actually act like a massive club again who are bigger than one bloke who flopped the one time he played for a "big club", yet believes its' his god-given right to be there again and he's doing us a favour in the interim.
That way forward, in my view, is very firmly without Lukaku at this point.
