Romelu Lukaku

[.h.]

Putting the outliners aside. The sensible logic is either you sign costly young, so we can cut loss when flop. Or older at reasonable cost to cover the gap.

Signing expensive old is a recipe for disaster. All could see a ticking bomb happening. At this point people wanna sell their wating-to-drop to maximize the profit, not buying in. Especially for a team with <0m budget like Inter. We are not ManU to splash 55m for a couple of years of service.

I get the logic, and if it was 20mil or so, I wouldnt be against it.

But we're talking about taking a huge bet on our striker that leads the line next season. And, yes, that risk applies to Lukaku as well.

'cut the loss' just doesnt work for us - look at Joao Mario, Dalbert, Lazaro, risky bets that we've lost a lot of money on, where "but we can sell them on" would work out


If Lukaku didnt have his run of form at the end of last season, I'd be less interested - but I think with careful dietary management, a proper pre-season with the club (he didnt get last year either IIRC), he could work out well

 

[Universe]

the worst thing is that these morons don't even have a Lukaku replacement in their minds.

I know right. The way our management is engrossed with Lukaku is disgusting.

Personally, I don't give a fuck about the injuries. Despite the jokes, I always want for our players to do well. Even players who have left us, I want them to do well because I want their association with us to be respected. For example, I want Man United shitheads to be blown away by Onana.

Lukaku had his chance to do well. He was given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to finally rise above all the criticism, all the ridicule and silence the doubters once and for all. Cement his legacy and carve his name into history.

All he had to do was nod in an easy header into a net, two meters away, which was two-thirds unguarded.

Instead, he utterly crumbled under the pressure. He capitulated. He was too weak to take this once-in-a-lifetime chance which had been gloriously spoonfed to him. He showed, conclusively, that he is simply not that guy and never will be that guy. I actually feel really bad for him.

Is Lautaro that guy? Is Thuram? I don't know. I have my doubts. But I can't condone Lukaku knowing that he will always be a mentally weak child who will always falter and fail us in the biggest moments.

 

[andrei]

I get the logic, and if it was 20mil or so, I wouldnt be against it.

But we're talking about taking a huge bet on our striker that leads the line next season. And, yes, that risk applies to Lukaku as well.

'cut the loss' just doesnt work for us - look at Joao Mario, Dalbert, Lazaro, risky bets that we've lost a lot of money on, where "but we can sell them on" would work out


If Lukaku didnt have his run of form at the end of last season, I'd be less interested - but I think with careful dietary management, a proper pre-season with the club (he didnt get last year either IIRC), he could work out well

Ok. I get your point and is correct. The questions are how much do we want to pay for Lukaku, how much will be the cost, how long the contract?
If we pay something like 20m + bonuses and he receive a salary in the range of Lautaro, Barella for 3 years, I won`t be against.
Lukaku was injured last season, but he is not injury prone. We are not talking about Dybala here. As you say, with careful dietary management and physical conditioning, we can have a Lukaku like in Conte days more or less (or like the last month of the season).
Scudetto is won beating constantly smaller teams and Lukaku is good at that. I cannot forget that spell when Lautaro forgot how to score, Dzeko was gassed out and we couldn`t score to save our lives (or season) even if we created enough chances.

 

[PHM1605]

I get the logic, and if it was 20mil or so, I wouldnt be against it.

But we're talking about taking a huge bet on our striker that leads the line next season. And, yes, that risk applies to Lukaku as well.

'cut the loss' just doesnt work for us - look at Joao Mario, Dalbert, Lazaro, risky bets that we've lost a lot of money on, where "but we can sell them on" would work out


If Lukaku didnt have his run of form at the end of last season, I'd be less interested - but I think with careful dietary management, a proper pre-season with the club (he didnt get last year either IIRC), he could work out well

We could have Dalbert Lazaro or Mario. But on the other hand, we still have Barella or Bastoni or Hakimi. Or Lukaku himself years ago. Big investments on young(ish) could go both ways.

As the counter argument, which old and that expensive has been successful? Nainggolan? You see, absolute zero.

I am not against Lukaku as a player either. But his cost. As pathetic as our current finance is, him occupying that big resource means we are sacrificing not only one, but two or three promising talents all over the squad.

Yeah, we don't even need a better striker. We need a better team. Lukaku is hindering us the same way that Ronaldo did to Juve, if he come i.e. maybe performing well but we must sacrifice Onana to feed Chelsea's and his account.

 

[Kova10]

So much Crazy stuff going on here wow

1. We don’t buy a car, so forget that cheaper price, longer service argument please. The story is really simple: what we need is a striker that has proven his ability of scoring 20 goals a season, because Thuram is an unknown quantity, Correa is not up to the task, and Lautaro is the only capable striker who offers guarantees performance wise atm.
Do a quick research on who can guarantee you this.

Immobile could, but comes with a hefty price tag out of a season with injury and is even older than Lukaku. Dia has proven it only once with Salernitana after a failed spell at Villareal, and would also cost at least 25mln. Balogun has done it one season, Wahi, Openda, etc all the same. The only player from Ligue 1 who would be interesting in that regard would be Jonathan David, but is pretty certainly out of our reach. To put it short: there is no player capable of doing what Lukaku does at the price.

2. You cannot compare this transfer with the one of Brozovic. Brozovic has been sold, because we already own one of the best players in Serie A in his position and can rotate with one of the 20 biggest talents in Europe in that position. Again: think of our attacking department.

3. It is incomprehensible to me how you can butcher the influence of Lukaku last season while hailing the influence of Brozovic and insulting the management for not keeping him when the season trajectory of both has been almost identical with both becoming fit towards the end of the season and delivering their best towards the end of the season. This narrative alone is insulting to Lukaku to be honest and is not worthy of a player who has helped us reach several milestones.

4. You hail the influence of Onana‘s characteristics because they are unique, but fail to see that Lukaku offers us that uniqueness in attack by the way he plays (physically).
Also unique is his penalty conversion rate.

5. The facts speak for Lukaku even last season as he managed to score or assist every 94 minutes which is roughly every game. There are attacking players being moved for triple his transfer sum and don’t even contribute to half of these figures. This output coming in one of his worst seasons as you have mentioned. Before someone talks about how his stats have been bloated: please have a look at his contribution starting from the Empoli game last season and decide for yourselves.

 

[PHM1605]

^don't forget the salary. Let's discuss the total annual cost here, not transfer fee alone. Then you are missing an important piece of the puzzle.

 

[Dave54]

screw chelsea. sell him to saudies.

 

[Kova10]

^don't forget the salary. Let's discuss the total annual cost here, not transfer fee alone. Then you are missing an important piece of the puzzle.

Sorry for that. Please tell me where we should invest more of the salary budget. We will cut our costs significantly entering into this season already. With Handanovic, Onana, Skriniar, D‘Ambro, Brozovic, Sensi, Gosens, and Dzeko leaving we already cut off a major piece of our older players who tipically earn more money.

Looking at our starting eleven we should be set in defense and midfield if Dumfries doesn’t leave. The only open positions are the second striker next to Lauti and the GK which is probably going to be fought out by Trubin and a veteran GK with Trubin having significantly lower salary than Onana and the veteran probably going through the growth decree law which will make him cheaper than Handanovic. So the only place left to invest significant salary in is the second striker position.

I assume that Marotta, Ausilio and Baccin are smart enough not to save too much salary in the process, because they will probably be obligated to save salary in the coming seasons too.

 

[Dave54]

to me, thuram would be better than lukaku.

 

[Jnr]

to me, thuram would be better than lukaku.

Has not played a single Serie A game in his life. Lets not overrate here. He will be shining Lukakus boots.

 

[Dave54]

Has not played a single Serie A game in his life. Lets not overrate here. He will be shining Lukakus boots.

bundesliga is a top league too.

 

[sdvroot]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1677681186670256128

 

[Dave54]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1677681186670256128

good.

 

[Jnr]

Heres an idea. Lets sign Icardi and Arnautovic

Thuram - Lautaro first choice. Wandas lap dog and Arnautovic 2nd choice.

I know I know. I should find a sawed off shotgun and aim my head.

 

[.h.]

bundesliga is a top league too.

thuram has potential but we dont know how he'll end up. Plenty of people fail to transfer leagues, for example, styles of football, etc. He's a risk - I'm overall glad we signed him on a Bosman, and I really hope it succeeds, but betting on that is a huge risk

 

[wera]

Heres an idea. Lets sign Icardi and Arnautovic

Thuram - Lautaro first choice. Wandas lap dog and Arnautovic 2nd choice.

I know I know. I should find a sawed off shotgun and aim my head.

Maybe it could work. There are certainly worse players out there

 

[Suraj]

yup it's time guys for the glorious comeback

 

[vex]

I know right. The way our management is engrossed with Lukaku is disgusting.

Personally, I don't give a fuck about the injuries. Despite the jokes, I always want for our players to do well. Even players who have left us, I want them to do well because I want their association with us to be respected. For example, I want Man United shitheads to be blown away by Onana.

Lukaku had his chance to do well. He was given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to finally rise above all the criticism, all the ridicule and silence the doubters once and for all. Cement his legacy and carve his name into history.

All he had to do was nod in an easy header into a net, two meters away, which was two-thirds unguarded.

Instead, he utterly crumbled under the pressure. He capitulated. He was too weak to take this once-in-a-lifetime chance which had been gloriously spoonfed to him. He showed, conclusively, that he is simply not that guy and never will be that guy. I actually feel really bad for him.

Is Lautaro that guy? Is Thuram? I don't know. I have my doubts. But I can't condone Lukaku knowing that he will always be a mentally weak child who will always falter and fail us in the biggest moments.

Wtf does he need to prove to anyone, he scored over 30 goals in a season we won scuddetto. Almost single-handedly carried us...

Oh, you want a player that can win you cl as well? Well sorry to break to you, but he isn't that good, if he was, he wouldn't consider this league and this club his future he would play for real madrid or some premier league club. The same goes for lautaro who also missed some chances in that final and who regularly disappears into a black hole during the duration of the season. Pretty big demands for a player that more than half of this forum even before that final regarded as shit and made memes out of him, don't you think?

I don't give a shit about high level cl games i just wanna a player who can reliably buttfuck empolis and spezias of this world and that's it, and imo although still a risk because of his recent injuries he is the closest thing to that type of striker that we can realistically get.

And if his big ass reminds some of you of that cl defeat, which I suspect is an underlying issue here, then that's just too bad.

 

[crzdcolombian]

yup it's time guys for the glorious comeback

I like icardi if he was free or super cheap. Or a Correa for Icardi swap all for it.

Juve wants Lukaku. I say let them have him. We can’t drop 40m on a 30 year old that has been crap for 2 seasons and wants high wages.

Dude could barely bench Dzeko last a season I don’t get the coaches hard on for the guy

 

[Dave54]

thuram has potential but we dont know how he'll end up. Plenty of people fail to transfer leagues, for example, styles of football, etc. He's a risk - I'm overall glad we signed him on a Bosman, and I really hope it succeeds, but betting on that is a huge risk

we will see. but paying chelsea that much is crazy.