Romelu Lukaku

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Morten

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With Icardi leaving, perhaps PSG could go for him?

Watching Lukaku point his hands whenever Neymar and Messi don't pass to him would be hilarious.
 
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Barcilliant

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I don't know why Chelsea bought Lukaku. Strange decision. I'm also surprised Lukaku went back there.
I think a six month loan here would be great but it won't happen.
 
serghei

serghei

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Barcilliant said:
I don't know why Chelsea bought Lukaku. Strange decision. I'm also surprised Lukaku went back there.
I think a six month loan here would be great but it won't happen.
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It's the same type of error Pep made when he got Zlatan. Tuchel had a quick, hard-working player in Werner, who is a professional and very mobile and with pretty awesome stamina, but he lacks end product in some areas, mainly finishing and being a solid target man to battle with defenders.

So he got Lukaku, thinking he will fix what was missing with Werner. But he didn't consider that Lukaku while improving those areas will expose the areas that someone like Werner provided very well for the team.

In the end, it's a tradeoff. For a press-based tactic, I'm not convinced someone like Luaku is overall better than someone like Werner, or someone like Diego Jota. In some ways, no doubt he is, but in others he isn't.

It's not a coincidence both Zlatan and Lukaku shine in Italian football at teams playing very much a conservative type of football where the star 9 is exempt from doing too much legwork with pressing and such.

Lukaku and Zlatan are just not do-it-all humble types to be shaped by the likes of Tuchel and Pep. You either take the whole package, with the good and the bad, both in generous quantities, or you stay away. They want the team to play for them.
 
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DonAK

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
I don't think that's the issue. I believe what Lukaku talks about is how he was supposedly told they were going to play a system with two strikers like he was used to at Inter. Lautaro did all the stuff Werner does with the same issues :lol:

But I suppose Tuchel moved away from that idea after some time? I don't follow Chelsea much so don't know what happened, but I think Lukaku is basically saying he's best in a two-striker system which he was told was their plan instead of being the lone striker as he might have played as at Chelsea this season?

That's another reason I love Haaland tbh. He can play as the lone striker. He doesn't need to often venture a bit wider as you do with two strikers as Lukaku loved to do in Italy.
 
FinBarcelonafan

FinBarcelonafan

Well-known member
serghei said:
It's the same type of error Pep made when he got Zlatan. Tuchel had a quick, hard-working player in Werner, who is a professional and very mobile and with pretty awesome stamina, but he lacks end product in some areas, mainly finishing and being a solid target man to battle with defenders.

So he got Lukaku, thinking he will fix what was missing with Werner. But he didn't consider that Lukaku while improving those areas will expose the areas that someone like Werner provided very well for the team.

In the end, it's a tradeoff. For a press-based tactic, I'm not convinced someone like Luaku is overall better than someone like Werner, or someone like Diego Jota. In some ways, no doubt he is, but in others he isn't.

It's not a coincidence both Zlatan and Lukaku shine in Italian football at teams playing very much a conservative type of football where the star 9 is exempt from doing too much legwork with pressing and such.

Lukaku and Zlatan are just not do-it-all humble types to be shaped by the likes of Tuchel and Pep. You either take the whole package, with the good and the bad, both in generous quantities, or you stay away. They want the team to play for them.
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Spot on. Who knows if Tuchel wanted this move or was it the Russian owner showing off. Sounds like Barto type of deal. Didn't fit their needs at all and the way Tuchel wants to play. Typical Galactico signing for the sake of making huge signing. This is what Barca needs to stay away from too.

Tictoc Tictoc for Tuchel.

Torres could be similar, but if we are really after Morata, Xavi is planning to play Torres on wing. Morata #9.
 
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Morten

Senior Member
Its funny, looking back at the things Drogba said during his time at Chelsea, he would not have been a popular guy over there, in this day and age.

Obviously, Drogba is an actual Chelsea-legend, and is easily a better overall forward than Lukaku, but some of his comments sounds very much the same, or worse than what Lukaku ever said.
 
Mateka

Mateka

New member
Headlines are ‘Lukaku grovelling apology’.

I'm sorry for the upset I've caused': Romelu Lukaku issues grovelling apology to Chelsea fans and vows to restore trust after saying he was 'not happy' at Stamford Bridge as he's fined at least 325,000 by the club.
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iniestaGOAT

iniestaGOAT

Senior Member
Morten said:
Its funny, looking back at the things Drogba said during his time at Chelsea, he would not have been a popular guy over there, in this day and age.

Obviously, Drogba is an actual Chelsea-legend, and is easily a better overall forward than Lukaku, but some of his comments sounds very much the same, or worse than what Lukaku ever said.
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He was also twice the player
 
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