Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
Bony also takes penaltys, if Rom took our penalty's and scored them all in the league he would have 8 goals
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Bony also takes penaltys, if Rom took our penalty's and scored them all in the league he would have 8 goals
IlliniToffee
Player Valuation: £500k
Bony's a better hold-up player and better in the air, but he doesn't have the pace or near anywhere the vision of Lukaku. The end result is two strikers that get something close to the same end results. Bony also would have cost something close to the same price despite being four years older. And doesn't Bony miss significant time with AFCON?
Titus Bramble
Best centre half to grace the Premier League
Lukaku must be pretty much 100% fit now after his niggly injuries at the start of the season. Imagine the damage we will cause teams once Baines, Coleman, barkley and Mirallas are all back fit.
Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
give you that mate,although he came on a sub,my point really was he tended to either score consolations in a defeat or the third or fourth goal in a comfortable win!
marty mcfly
Player Valuation: £40m
I never knew the stats. It was just an impression I got from watching him but that's pretty conclusive.
Goal scorers are born not taught which is why we should lay off Lukaku and be glad he's ours.
And I was one who thought we probably overpaid a little but that's done now and nothing to do with him.
Ring master
Player Valuation: £90m
1st time,ive ever seen that hattrick,always heard about the game,but never even attempted to look for it
I think that we can all agree that it felt like we've overpaid by a few million. But that's more to do with the shock of actually spending such a large amount of money for the time in years. I think 21m would be about right and some rumours were put if the 28m fee that included 5m paid for his loan season and then a few million based on certain things. Either way, I'm glad he's ours and I think come the end of the season he will have got himself 20+ goals and we will all be saying what a great signing he's been.
thirdmantackle
Player Valuation: £35m
When he scores in the Europa league final, I'll be happy
Blue Parkender
Player Valuation: £8m
On present form ive seen better sunday league players. but the lad scores goals and that is what you pay big money for.
He will come good and score a lot of goals in the years to come.
He will come good and score a lot of goals in the years to come.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
hahahahaha good one mate!!!!
bluebud
Player Valuation: £35m
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/romelu-lukaku-potential-best-striker-8160306
"He’s such a winner that he wants to become the best striker in the world and he’s got the potential to do that"
Romelu Lukaku has the potential to become “the best striker in the world” believes Everton FC boss Roberto Martinez.
The young Belgian has endured a slow start to the current campaign after an explosive start to his first season in Royal Blue, but has now scored three goals in his last five starts.
And despite constant focus on the club record breaking transfer fee the Blues had to fork out to land him, Martinez firmly believes he is getting value for money for the 21-year-old.
“Remember that the assessment of Rom is what he brings to the side. Nobody else in our squad can give us what he gives us,” said Martinez.
“He is someone that holds up the ball and brings a lot of fear to the opposition because they always get players around him which opens space at all times. He’s got power, he’s got pace, he’s a clinical footballer driving the ball – I’ve been delighted with Rom.
“The reality as well is that after the World Cup it’s been difficult for him to get his best physical level and we need to help him towards that but I’ve been delighted with what he’s done, although I still know he has loads to do because his potential is immense.
“I think he’s doing exactly what the team needs. He’s such a winner that he wants to become the best striker in the world and he’s got the potential to do that.”
In assessing the fee that the Blues paid Chelsea for Lukaku, Martinez prefers to talk about a striking package which includes Samuel Eto’o.
“The fee is what he means to our squad and you don’t get that sort of player easy,” he added. “Sometimes it’s how you produce those finances.
“We produced those finances by selling some players and by signing players on frees. We brought Samuel Eto’o on a free then Romelu was £25m plus £3m and to get those two players for that kind of money I think is very very cheap.
“I never see what a player costs. I look at what money we can spend on a squad and try and get the best kind of squad possible and then it’s not the valuation of the player it’s the valuation of the squad and what every player can give you and I’m extremely happy with the strength of the squad.
“Remember today we had a game against a West Ham squad who we know were going to test us and we had no Leighton Baines, no Gareth Barry, no Darron Gibson, no Steven Pienaar, no Aiden McGeady from the last performance – I’m, not talking about long term injuries – but the way we coped was extremely satisfying and shows you the winning mentality we have in this group.
“Whatever money we spent was well spent on the squad.”
Lukaku opened the scoring for the Blues against the Hammers to take his tally for the season so far to five.
But Martinez believes that the player’s selfless approach has been just as important as his goals.
“From the outside people don’t know that at the start of the season he wasn’t fully fit, firstly because the World Cup took a look out of him like any other player,” explained the Blues boss. “You’ve seen all the teams who were expected to win the title have had a slow start, except for Chelsea, and that goes because of the experiences they had in the World Cup.
“Rom is no different but he cares so much he wants to be on the pitch. I will be very honest and in three games he should never have been on the pitch because he was carrying knocks and wasn’t himself but even though Rom wasn’t himself he does an important job for our team.
“That’s the measure of someone who is prepared to put his body on the line and help the team at any time.
“That, for me, is more important than just having a player who is only prepared to play when he is 100 per cent and then performs well in only those circumstances.”
"He’s such a winner that he wants to become the best striker in the world and he’s got the potential to do that"
Romelu Lukaku has the potential to become “the best striker in the world” believes Everton FC boss Roberto Martinez.
The young Belgian has endured a slow start to the current campaign after an explosive start to his first season in Royal Blue, but has now scored three goals in his last five starts.
And despite constant focus on the club record breaking transfer fee the Blues had to fork out to land him, Martinez firmly believes he is getting value for money for the 21-year-old.
“Remember that the assessment of Rom is what he brings to the side. Nobody else in our squad can give us what he gives us,” said Martinez.
“He is someone that holds up the ball and brings a lot of fear to the opposition because they always get players around him which opens space at all times. He’s got power, he’s got pace, he’s a clinical footballer driving the ball – I’ve been delighted with Rom.
“The reality as well is that after the World Cup it’s been difficult for him to get his best physical level and we need to help him towards that but I’ve been delighted with what he’s done, although I still know he has loads to do because his potential is immense.
“I think he’s doing exactly what the team needs. He’s such a winner that he wants to become the best striker in the world and he’s got the potential to do that.”
In assessing the fee that the Blues paid Chelsea for Lukaku, Martinez prefers to talk about a striking package which includes Samuel Eto’o.
“The fee is what he means to our squad and you don’t get that sort of player easy,” he added. “Sometimes it’s how you produce those finances.
“We produced those finances by selling some players and by signing players on frees. We brought Samuel Eto’o on a free then Romelu was £25m plus £3m and to get those two players for that kind of money I think is very very cheap.
“I never see what a player costs. I look at what money we can spend on a squad and try and get the best kind of squad possible and then it’s not the valuation of the player it’s the valuation of the squad and what every player can give you and I’m extremely happy with the strength of the squad.
“Remember today we had a game against a West Ham squad who we know were going to test us and we had no Leighton Baines, no Gareth Barry, no Darron Gibson, no Steven Pienaar, no Aiden McGeady from the last performance – I’m, not talking about long term injuries – but the way we coped was extremely satisfying and shows you the winning mentality we have in this group.
“Whatever money we spent was well spent on the squad.”
Lukaku opened the scoring for the Blues against the Hammers to take his tally for the season so far to five.
But Martinez believes that the player’s selfless approach has been just as important as his goals.
“From the outside people don’t know that at the start of the season he wasn’t fully fit, firstly because the World Cup took a look out of him like any other player,” explained the Blues boss. “You’ve seen all the teams who were expected to win the title have had a slow start, except for Chelsea, and that goes because of the experiences they had in the World Cup.
“Rom is no different but he cares so much he wants to be on the pitch. I will be very honest and in three games he should never have been on the pitch because he was carrying knocks and wasn’t himself but even though Rom wasn’t himself he does an important job for our team.
“That’s the measure of someone who is prepared to put his body on the line and help the team at any time.
“That, for me, is more important than just having a player who is only prepared to play when he is 100 per cent and then performs well in only those circumstances.”
He's doing fine, and I sense his engine is only warming up. He'll knock in a few before Christmas and he will look great value for money.
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