Romelu Lukaku

Would you buy Lukaku this summer?


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Let's hope so. I would just want to let it go and we move on from Lukaku. His salary is anyway way too high.
 

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tbh, im fine with whatever gets him back to playing 90 minutes regularly. If it means he needs to take a break till the world cup, that kinda sucks ass, but I dont want another small niggling injury that breaks his match fitness. We just need to get Lukaku bback and ready to lead our frontline. And a coacho who knows how to organise a defense.
 

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we need more rich,competent owner urgently over new headcoach. Zhang/Suning never really provide Inzaghi a competent squad to play
 

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Lol

There are components of the squad, but if we had amazing owners, do you really think Inzaghi would be doing an amazing job with them? Skriniar Bastoni De Vrij as a back line shouldnt concede 19 goals in 13 games. I think we can all agree on that.

Inzaghi is more of a problem, imho, than Suning right now.
 

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Inzaghi could be the biggest issue atm, but Suning was the bigger and the reason which led to the situation where we are now. Suning has done great to take over Inter and drag the team towards these trophies we won under their regime, but they have to move on. We won't be seeing the glory ever again until the issues of head management resolves.

Whoever replaces Inzaghi might probably do well in the beginning and pull a great streak of victories but the problem will remain there. Inzaghi was never the greatest idea, but considering circumstances he was at least not the worst idea either, and this is where we are now... we are neither great or terrible.
 

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This twat also contributes to our malaise. We sign him to be our main protagonist and he turns out to be the world most expensive cheerleader. In hindsight, if we redirect 20 M we spent on him to other players, we could end up in better position.
 

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This twat also contributes to our malaise. We sign him to be our main protagonist and he turns out to be the world most expensive cheerleader. In hindsight, if we redirect 20 M we spent on him to other players, we could end up in better position.
I don't trust Inter with 20 m to spend on players. Just more Correas or kids that won't get a chance.
 

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Lol

There are components of the squad, but if we had amazing owners, do you really think Inzaghi would be doing an amazing job with them? Skriniar Bastoni De Vrij as a back line shouldnt concede 19 goals in 13 games. I think we can all agree on that.

Inzaghi is more of a problem, imho, than Suning right now.
Owners are the problem for creating the environment in the summer that everyone is up for sale. It's poor management by highest echelon club level.
 

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Inzaghi is more of a problem, imho, than Suning right now.

Avalanche incoming and you're staring at yesterday's melted snowman...
 

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Avalanche incoming and you're staring at yesterday's melted snowman...
The guy is Suning plant obviously. No one sane can defend Suning right now lol. Only someone who works for them.
 

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How do you see that as adefense of suning? What a fucking joke. My account existed before Suning was even an international business.

My point is that you can sit here and blame Suning all we want, but lets not be fucking blind to the fact that we've got the 6th? 7th? worst defense in the league, and Inzaghi has lost pretty much every big game we've played this season.

Yes, Suning are a problem, and they need to sell the club and be replaced, but you're an idiot if you think replacing Suning, keeping Inzaghi will somehow fix everything. Inzaghi is out of his depth. And if you gave me two options (A - keep Suning, replace Inzaghi) or (B - keep Inzaghi, replace Suning) in terms of SHORT TERM RESULTS this season, I pick A every fucking day of the week


If we'd sold all of our strikers, and Satriano-Esposito were failing to score, 100%, the problem is Suning. But right now we're talking about one of the best defenses in the league for the last 4 years - with an upgrade in Onana/Handanovic - is now one of the worst defenses in this league. That's not a Suning fault (or, at least, not entirely) - it's also an Inzaghi fault.
 

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How do you see that as adefense of suning? What a fucking joke. My account existed before Suning was even an international business.

My point is that you can sit here and blame Suning all we want, but lets not be fucking blind to the fact that we've got the 6th? 7th? worst defense in the league, and Inzaghi has lost pretty much every big game we've played this season.

Yes, Suning are a problem, and they need to sell the club and be replaced, but you're an idiot if you think replacing Suning, keeping Inzaghi will somehow fix everything. Inzaghi is out of his depth. And if you gave me two options (A - keep Suning, replace Inzaghi) or (B - keep Inzaghi, replace Suning) in terms of SHORT TERM RESULTS this season, I pick A every fucking day of the week


If we'd sold all of our strikers, and Satriano-Esposito were failing to score, 100%, the problem is Suning. But right now we're talking about one of the best defenses in the league for the last 4 years - with an upgrade in Onana/Handanovic - is now one of the worst defenses in this league. That's not a Suning fault (or, at least, not entirely) - it's also an Inzaghi fault.
It's worth pointing out how fundamentally different (worse) this iteration of Inter is from the Scudetto-winning team.

Perisic, Hakimi, and Eriksen were replaced with irrefutable downgrades at their positions. Lukaku doesn't play for us, so that's also a downgrade technically. Onana for Handanovic is probably a wash in terms of ability but is a major loss in terms of experience.

I don't think our defensive woes are as simple as saying "Inzaghi has the same three CBs Conte had, we're conceding more goals, ergo it's Inzaghi's fault." I've posted about this previously, but replacing Perisic with Dimarco has changed the entire makeup of this team defensively. Teams can pick us apart on our left with little resistance. We're a slower team than ever before and can't keep up with the pace of elite attackers. We've replaced two world class wingbacks with the definition of mediocrity, and that's where I mostly pin the blame. I also agree with brehme that we shot de Vrij's confidence with the contract extensions. He should have been sold if we didn't want to keep him.

With all that being said, I do blame Inzaghi quite a bit for the problems. You need to adapt to the players you have.
 

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Oh I agree, this team is a substantial downgrade from the scudetto winning team, and there's definitely impact (!00% correct eg Perisic/Dimarco) - but at the same time, we're still talking about 3 of the world's top, if not best, CBs. They should do a lot better than they are right now. We're playing like pre-Skriniar/Miranda Inter, defensively. Basic mistakes, little coordination, etc.
 

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Well we need to admit De Vrij has declined. Skriniar hasn't been at his best and I'd attribute some of that for the summer sale BS (+ the injury back there).

Do we attribute this to Inzaghi?
 

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No, de vrij's declination isnt on Inzaghi, but still, the overall poor performance of the defense I think has at least some significant component that can be blamed on him, the tactical set up, etc. One of the first things Barella (?) said was that with Inzaghi they have a lot more tactical freedom - its clear that's having major detrimental impact on the defense.
 

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Hmm, we're having this same discussion in multiple threads now. Neither of them is the correct one but let's decide not to have it in Lukaku thread at least. So Serie A thread it is then.
 

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I feel like judging how many goals you concede depends on how good your CBs is a very 90s or early 2000s idea.
In short, Pep's Bayern or Barca sometimes don't even play with any CB, and they didn't concede many. That is just an extreme example, but the point is there are so many moving pieces to dissect the defense problem into this. Like the lack of a threat in attack, the more willing the opponent is willing to throw bodies at us.

2 out of 3 CBs have some huge decline individual performances, and I am not referring to plays that has external factors affecting them, like who was pair on the side with them etc. I am talking about ariel duels, toughness on the turn etc.

Obviously, it doesn't help that Inzaghi set the team up in the objective of outscoring the opponent, but if we have the right attackers (budget), this might not even be a concern for us, e.g. killing off the game 3-0 half time, or just plain outscoring them with better conversion rate strikers etc.
Also, I believe one of the reasons we have to over commit with players in our attacking phase is lack of those individual brilliant players, like imagine we have G.Jesus or Vinicius Junior instead of Correa. I doubt we need our CBs to involve in the attack play this heavy, or the risk they need to take, or we would've scored more already.

Sorry didn't realize it is the Lukaku thread and the post above me.
Just want to say the discussion above was wonderful, love reading them.
 

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The squad has definitely declined over the past 2 seasons. Perisic to Dimarco is an obvious decline. Lukaku and Gosens addition are a nonfactor since the former has been out injured and the latter has been nowhere close to the expectations. Dumfries is a limited player and not even performing to his last season's level. Correa was a failed transfer and Brozo has been injured.

These all are key factors and should not be underestimated. Even with Lukaku's absence, if we had quality WBs I believe we could do better this season. WBs are a crucial part of playing 3-5-2 and Dimarco and Dumfries are not up to the level we need.
 
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