Romelu Lukaku

Would you buy Lukaku this summer?


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Considering his salary, yes. The loan fee could be probably negotiated lower.

I've said this before I could take Lukaku for 50% fee and 50% of his salary and I'm not even sure about that anymore. 4m net for that guy feels too high. He isn't scoring and he's out of sync most of the time with other players.
 

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Considering his salary, yes. The loan fee could be probably negotiated lower.

I've said this before I could take Lukaku for 50% fee and 50% of his salary and I'm not even sure about that anymore. 4m net for that guy feels too high. He isn't scoring and he's out of sync most of the time with other players.
Imho it all depends on how his season finishes, lets not ignore that the dude only played 12 games (5 as a starter) thus far and was injured for most of the season.
So yes currently he is way to expensive for what he brings to the table, I for one am not ready to write him off or call him finished just yet. If he even gets close to the form he was in in our scudetto run that price all of a sudden does not seem so high any more...

Anyways my best guess is that chelsea will want to sell in summer and we ll have to see how much interest there is and if chelsea sets a reasonable price.
 

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But he sucks. That's the thing.

There won't be being close to his Scudetto season form. He's not worth his salary in any credible scenario.
I agree that he currently sucks.....
Why is it not a credible scenario? Cause no 29/30 year old player has ever sucked after being out almost half a season and came back from it? Cause no player with his characteristics played well in his mid 30s?
Like whats the logic here? that there is no way he ll recover his form?

I m not saying it will happen neither am i saying it s likely to happen but to just write him off like this after 12 games seems pre mature.
All i m saying is lets wait and see how Rom performs the rest of the season and then what chelseas demands are.


Yes as of now he has given us 0 reason to keep him around.
 

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Yeah we can do nothing but wait.

But he somewhat sucked at Chelsea as well. I hoped he would be back to scoring, back to dominating like he did in Italy. But that's clearly not the case. We don't play like we used to with Conte. Like @brehme1989 has pinpointed multiple times, Conte football was tailormade for Lukaku. He was the center piece. That's not the case anymore.

Maybe Conte is the only guy who can get something out of Lukaku, by basing the whole game plan to serve the guy. But that's never gonna happen at Inter anymore. It's over.
 

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Yeah we can do nothing but wait.

But he somewhat sucked at Chelsea as well. I hoped he would be back to scoring, back to dominating like he did in Italy. But that's clearly not the case. We don't play like we used to with Conte. Like @brehme1989 has pinpointed multiple times, Conte football was tailormade for Lukaku. He was the center piece. That's not the case anymore.

Maybe Conte is the only guy who can get something out of Lukaku, by basing the whole game plan to serve the guy. But that's never gonna happen at Inter anymore. It's over.
Yeah we all expected him to do be better but he also got injured after what 3 games and only really looks fit again now... So i m not sure if we have a big enough sample size to determine wether or not he can get back to his old form.

I completely disagree on the conte part though yes conte got the best out of him but he was already an established player dude has scored some 140+ goals in the EPL at 26 before ever getting coached by Conte....
 

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It definitely was, we can give that to Lukaku.

But someone like Petagna could do that for a 1/5 of a cost to the club.
oh no, definitly not.. i watched monza last week and Petagna did some horrible stuff. First he missed a goal where he only needed to shot, he was lucky that they still managed to score there. And then he was 2 vs 1, he could have pass to Caprari who was free or trying to pass the defender, which was harder. He made the second one, tryed to make a ridiciolous dribling and lost the ball, he did not even see where the ball was. :lol: not to defend lukaku but petagna is the worst striker i ever saw in this last months.
 

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My point was more about how Lukaku doesn't do even that, he's just the tank close to the box you can throw the ball to. And then he tries to dish it forward, sometimes successfully sometimes not. Lukaku isn't even getting to those situations what you just described Petagna is doing.
 

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My point was more about how Lukaku doesn't do even that, he's just the tank close to the box you can throw the ball to. And then he tries to dish it forward, sometimes successfully sometimes not. Lukaku isn't even getting to those situations what you just described Petagna is doing.
i think lukaku would pass if he's in a 2 vs 1 situation.
 
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I’m convinced he’s finished and I don’t think it’s purely injuries, which will become more frequent. He hit his absolute peak with Conte and will never play at that level again. I’ve seen enough.
 

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Nobody expected him to be half the player he was with Conte. So he didn't disappoint the majority of us.

Let him go, he is perfect for that MLS, Jay-Z type of football now. But knowing how Steven wets his panties for him, not gonna be surprised if we offer him a lucrative contract and make him a captain (sell Barella in the process because Steven doesn't want anyone to mess with his crush Lukaku).
 

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Nobody expected him to be half the player he was with Conte. So he didn't disappoint the majority of us.

Let him go, he is perfect for that MLS, Jay-Z type of football now. But knowing how Steven wets his panties for him, not gonna be surprised if we offer him a lucrative contract and make him a captain (sell Barella in the process because Steven doesn't want anyone to mess with his crush Lukaku).

Even if you were expecting him to be less than half the player he was under Conte he still disappointed.
 

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Speaking to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Adani explained why Lukaku hasn’t done well for Inter this season
“Let’s start with injuries. Lukaku was not born a champion, he doesn’t have the naturalness of the talented striker, as Dzeko does, in his movements and plays.
“His football cannot do without fitness and weekly work. When Lukaku is well, he grows in self-confidence and then in technique, even in dribbling.
“But when he is bad, he becomes a normal player, who struggles.”

He underlined how Lukaku has been insufficient this season and failed to replicate the form he had before his high-profile move to Chelsea.
“The performances so far don’t even come close to being good enough, how can we deny it? It is clear that when Inter brought Lukaku back to Milan, they had in mind the carry of the two years in Serie A.
“A player capable of making a difference, at least in Italy. Here, that player in 2022-23 has never been seen. Even if in the last few games his attitude and head seem better.”

He laid some of the blame at coach Inzaghi’s door.
“I also expect the current Nerazzurri coach to find a way to affect Lukaku’s performance. As I always say, when a top player does not perform according to expectations, the blame must also be shared with the technical leadership.
“I would like Inzaghi to also say publicly what kind of work he wants to do with the Belgian.”

Finally, Adani suggested that Inter made a mistake by not picking up Paulo Dybala on a free transfer last summer.
“We want to talk about mistakes on the market, not signing Dybala was certainly one, regardless of whether Lukaku arrived or Sanchez left.
“Inter are last in Serie A for both dribbles attempted and successful. The man who goes beyond the play is missing, this was also seen against Sampdoria.
“Having an extra Dybala against closed-in opponents can guarantee you the classy play that breaks up the game.”
100% correct.
 

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CdS: the possibility of bringing Lukaku back would not be off the table, although the player is aware that he would have to take a wage cut, whilst the Nerazzurri would also attempt to use his form this season as leverage to negotiate a lower fee from Chelsea.
 

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How about using his form this season to decide against extending his loan?
That would mean being smart on the transfer market and under Beppe we don't do that.

Everything is about his agent friends and his manager friends and how they can keep buying and loaning each other's players.
 
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