Segway wrote:

Lukaku really comes off like a massive twat. Laughable really.

Never understood how so many couldn't see this, maybe because of the smaller stature of clubs he used to play for? He's an arrogant little shit, both on and off the pitch, not a shred of humility. I remember when he scored his 50th league goal (a shit tapin iirc) he celebrated by displaying 50 with his hands for about three minutes straight ffs

Also I'm 100% certain that you can't be a good person when your first touch is that shit

Can't be happy about this one.

I think he'll likely flourish at United over time and I wish he were an Arsenal player.

For 100m? No way.

Mourinho has been a prick about this too, with reports that he looked at Lacazette but decided he didn't have a "big game mentality". I'm pretty sure Lukaku has gone missing a fair bit.

They don't even need big game mentality. All their dropped points was too small teams. They needed a flat track bully and got one.

Yeah like I said he'll flourish. He won't have much of an adaptation period as he's not even going to need to move house in all likelihood.

He's always been a productive striker, and a supposed "flat track bully" is exactly what you need in this league where even the smaller clubs remain competitive. This is a bad development for our top four prospects.

I don't think he will get anymore than 15-20 league goals. And for 90m I would expect more.

If Everton do get Giroud they will have replaced Lukaku's goals more than sufficiently.

I'm so confused. The guy got 25 league goals just last season in front of no name playmakers. So now he is going to decrease his production by 20-40%?

It's not about number of goals, though he'll score plenty, it's about Mourinho being able to use him as a mobile, productive target man and have United play the sort of shitty negative football he loves in every tricky match.

He may have got 25 goals but his average is 15-20 goals throughout his career, bar last season his stats are pretty much the same as Girouds. Also a lot of his goals came from crosses and wingers, he doesn't need a "playmaker".

Clrnc wrote:

They don't even need big game mentality. All their dropped points was too small teams. They needed a flat track bully and got one.

More so than Zlatan?

I think Lukaku's success depends more on the rest of the United side rather than the other way around. If they play like they did last season he'll probably drop back down to the 14-18 goals a season range.

Burnwinter wrote:

Yeah like I said he'll flourish. He won't have much of an adaptation period as he's not even going to need to move house in all likelihood.

He's always been a productive striker, and a supposed "flat track bully" is exactly what you need in this league where even the smaller clubs remain competitive. This is a bad development for our top four prospects.

Why? They had a better striker last year and didn't make top four.

  @ irish herald

Yeah, it's like people only see that they added Lukaku and assume they will improve, but ignore that they lost a striker that Lukaku doesn't even deserve to be compared with.

goon wrote:

Clrnc wrote:

They don't even need big game mentality. All their dropped points was too small teams. They needed a flat track bully and got one.

More so than Zlatan?

I think Lukaku's success depends more on the rest of the United side rather than the other way around. If they play like they did last season he'll probably drop back down to the 14-18 goals a season range.

Zlatan had the worst conversion rate of big chances last season. He basically had the most shots but scored the least vs the small boys in home matches.

Bold Tone wrote:

  @ irish herald

Which ever way this goes, I'm betting there's gonna be some serious "told ya so's" flying around!

I reckon both sides will probably end up claiming they were right

I'm gonna be coming for you goon!!