We will never win the league with Lukaku up front

He was breathing heavily getting into position for kick-off. I don’t care how young, fit or strong you are everybody has a physical limit. Is he gonna fire us to league and champions league titles? Probably not, but the fact he needs a rest clearly doesn’t help his performances
 
Walking around, positionally terrible. Even when he went through a drought he was never this bad! Big half for him, needs to impose himself on this game.
 
I'm not his biggest fan, but there's no way we can lay any of this at his feet. The problems are way bigger than individual personnel.
 
Crashoutcassius said:
he's a goal scorer. Has scored 1 in every 2 for us, with very poor service i think we can all agree
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1 in 2 isnt that good of a record for a player who provides pretty much nothing else on the pitch, and when we play a system that pretty much nobody else gets a reliable supply of chances. A lone striker in a system like ours usually has the main striker racking up the goals. Or at least looking dangerous. Hes been woeful.
 
Poor movement, poor ball control, poor speed. When we sell him he's going to a mid table club.
 
Why not try this line up in the next matches?When Lukaku is out of form. Shouldnt he be drop on the benches like Martial before?

My suggestion withouth Lukaku. Better give Sanchez a free nr.10 role behind Rashford like this.

Mata - Sanchez - Martial + Rashford. 4231/4411

Mata - Matic - Pogba - Martial + Sanchez + Rashford 4411

Shall give it a try. Sanchez scored a lot for Arsenal in that free cam role.
 
He's nowhere near good enough for a club that wants to compete on all fronts. He is a back-up striker, absolutely criminal that he is undroppable. he contributes nothing to our overall play, and his finishing is patchy at best. Martial and Sanchez are more natural finishers, try one of them please!
 
It’s a hard pill to swallow but let’s be honest. He’s not good enough. Awful first touch and not mobile enough.

If it’s possible let’s sell, unfortunately. Like the guy.
 
AndyJ1985 said:
Can't even bring myself to laugh. Our star striker has as much grace and technical ability as Fellaini, and we paid £75m for it. Sad
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In fairness to Fellaini his first touch isn't half bad.
 
99withaflake said:
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Jesus I'm starting to feel bad now for calling him RomEmile LuHeskey. Not even Heskey was this bad. It's actually unbelievable we spent 75m on this donkey and truth be told we are stuck with him until his contract runs out there is no one out there who would want him anyway.
 
el3mel said:
His first touch is so laughable. I couldn't prevent myself from laughing at least 3 times during the first tweet.
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AndyJ1985 said:
Can't even bring myself to laugh. Our star striker has as much grace and technical ability as Fellaini, and we paid £75m for it. Sad
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3KDré said:
In fairness to Fellaini his first touch isn't half bad.
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BlueHaze said:
Jesus I'm starting to feel bad now for calling him RomEmile LuHeskey. Not even Heskey was this bad. It's actually unbelievable we spent 75m on this donkey and truth be told we are stuck with him until his contract runs out there is no one out there who would want him anyway.
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It's such a shame. Even if he put 2 or 3 of those chances away, our season would be a lot different to what it is now. Goals change games, and although we wouldn't near the top, we'd be a hell of a lot closer to the top 4.

His misses wouldn't be so costly in a team that creates lots of chances, and if others were on good form around him, but when he's the main man up top and only getting one or two chances a game, it's never going to be successful in the long run.
 
He’s not good enough.

Given the dearth of currently available world class/proven striking talent I’d have been in for Higuain. Just looking at Milan’s loan deal, 18m euro for the year, with an option to buy then for 36m, he has his detractors, but I’d say a bargain compared to Lukaku.
 
99withaflake said:
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Was wondering when these compilations would start popping up. Pretty sure he's had enough to fill a half hour special since getting here if you include every comical first touch moment
 
Yeah I agree Lukaku shouldn’t play up front on his own he should play up front with Rashford a mixture of pace and strength could be just what Manchester United need, what do you guys think about my suggestion
 
Strachans Cigar said:
He’s not good enough.

Given the dearth of currently available world class/proven striking talent I’d have been in for Higuain. Just looking at Milan’s loan deal, 18m euro for the year, with an option to buy then for 36m, he has his detractors, but I’d say a bargain compared to Lukaku.
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They’re not even in the same ball park. Higuian is one of Europe’s elite strikers ability wise. He’s just a serial big game bottler.
 
I sometimes think if we had someone like Kane, Aguero, Firmino, etc, would we be doing a lot better? I honestly dont think we would. Its not to say they aforementioned players arent better than Lukaku, but our style of play is so dated and predictable it must be hard being a striker at United.

We know that Lukaku will score goals. Yes, his overall play is somewhat lacking, but he has shown time and time again that with service he'll get you goals.

At the moment, he is massively out of form and struggling with confidence. What's worrying is he is not even getting chances.

Mourinho has some work to do. He needs to decide whether he's going to drop Rom or stick with him. Maybe some time on the bench will do him good. He did mention putting Rashford up there by said that we wont have anyone to put on the wing because of Sanchez and Lingard's injuries. Maybe its something Mourinho may decide to do when the two players are back.

From Mourinho's point of view, though, he should be working on how we are going to create more chances for, not only Rom, but our other players too. As I said, we're far too easy to play against.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
I sometimes think if we had someone like Kane, Aguero, Firmino, etc, would we be doing a lot better? I honestly dont think we would. Its not to say they aforementioned players arent better than Lukaku, but our style of play is so dated and predictable it must be hard being a striker at United.

We know that Lukaku will score goals. Yes, his overall play is somewhat lacking, but he has shown time and time again that with service he'll get you goals.

At the moment, he is massively out of form and struggling with confidence. What's worrying is he is not even getting chances.

Mourinho has some work to do. He needs to decide whether he's going to drop Rom or stick with him. Maybe some time on the bench will do him good. He did mention putting Rashford up there by said that we wont have anyone to put on the wing because of Sanchez and Lingard's injuries. Maybe its something Mourinho may decide to do when the two players are back.

From Mourinho's point of view, though, he should be working on how we are going to create more chances for, not only Rom, but our other players too. As I said, we're far too easy to play against.
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The problem is not this though - all those strikers don't need non stop crossing support from fullbacks & wingers which we don't have. Those strikers have the capability of creating chances themselves but more importantly have the ability to play from support much more central & at the middle of the park. They also make the attack more cohesive.

A player like firminh0 has the ability to link wide forwards like martial & Rashford together. A forward like aguero doesn't need crosses & prefers passes down the park. Kane is able to rely on the crosses of just our fullbacks whilst the rest can come through the middle.

Lukaku is one directional the way he currently plays & it's due to his role of being a target man right bang down the centre. We need to shift him off as a wide forward whilst playing another forward on the other side - this will change our team plan from crossing 24/7 to a team that aims to break the centre defence by Central passing.

We do need better players for that - but that's why I'd rather have an Am or a better CM arrive here rathe than a winger like perisic or Willian.

Wingbacks can do the role those guys do for the whole team.
 
AndyJ1985 said:
Can't even bring myself to laugh. Our star striker has as much grace and technical ability as Fellaini, and we paid £75m for it. Sad
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I think that it’s a tad bit unfair to compile a video of all the missed chances of Lukaku,and to somehow make him out to be useless.I”m sure we can come up with an equally funny bloopers video of Rooney,Van nistlerooy,Cole etc....Lukaku has some great attributes,he has some obvious shortcomings...But anybody who feels that Lukaku is the reason why we aren’t scoring enough goals needs to get his head examined.

No top striker can bang in the goals when you don’t have good enough service.Lukakus going through a bit of a rut now,but he’s not the biggest problem in this team...
 
Lukaku is looking slow and I am sure it can be dealt with. Surely the club employ various professionals who can help improve Rom's stamina, acceleration and, hopefully, heading ability. And yes, he is not a target man.
 
Aloysius's Back 3 said:
The problem is not this though - all those strikers don't need non stop crossing support from fullbacks & wingers which we don't have. Those strikers have the capability of creating chances themselves but more importantly have the ability to play from support much more central & at the middle of the park. They also make the attack more cohesive.

A player like firminh0 has the ability to link wide forwards like martial & Rashford together. A forward like aguero doesn't need crosses & prefers passes down the park. Kane is able to rely on the crosses of just our fullbacks whilst the rest can come through the middle.

Lukaku is one directional the way he currently plays & it's due to his role of being a target man right bang down the centre. We need to shift him off as a wide forward whilst playing another forward on the other side - this will change our team plan from crossing 24/7 to a team that aims to break the centre defence by Central passing.

We do need better players for that - but that's why I'd rather have an Am or a better CM arrive here rathe than a winger like perisic or Willian.

Wingbacks can do the role those guys do for the whole team.
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I understand what you mean, and I said, it's up to the manager to get the best out of Lukaku. If that means a change of style or position, then so be it.
 
Water Melon said:
Lukaku is looking slow and I am sure it can be dealt with. Surely the club employ various professionals who can help improve Rom's stamina, acceleration and, hopefully, heading ability. And yes, he is not a target man.
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I was watching his highlights from Everton last night and I swear he looked thinner (which isn't even that thin) and more explosive than he does now. It' s as if someone told him he needed to bulk up when he came here, but whatever it is he's bigger than anyone else in the squad by a fair margin at the moment.
 
Jagga7 said:
It's not even Lukaku's fault. The team is poorly coached, we're dropping our whole team inside our own half, it's pathetic. What can our attackers do in such a system?
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My friend, please watch the videos below, then review what you wrote, above.

99withaflake said:
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I found myself laughing pretty hard, until I realised that he is our best striker and is the guy we are relying on to score us the goals to take us into top 4.
The guy should be benched.
 
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sunama said:
My friend, please watch the videos below, then review what you wrote, above.



I found myself laughing pretty hard, until I realised that he is our best striker and is the guy we are relying on to score us the goals to take us into top 4.
The guy should be benched.
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Nothing can a manager do about these, except may be not to buy him in the first place?
 
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