Lukaku

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Ashtonian said:
This i dont get. He isnt a 28 million pound footballer. We only agreed to pay that in some deal that worked out cheap for us and because everytime chelsea asked for more money we were the only club that stayed in the hunt for his signature.

I look at his true value being that, and we have invested the money into the player he will be come rather than what he is now. for 28 you would expect better, but for a player his age, 28 is the value you want him to become.

In comparison to 18 for bony and that is inflated.
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Ashtonian said:
This i dont get. He isnt a 28 million pound footballer. We only agreed to pay that in some deal that worked out cheap for us and because everytime chelsea asked for more money we were the only club that stayed in the hunt for his signature.

I look at his true value being that, and we have invested the money into the player he will be come rather than what he is now. for 28 you would expect better, but for a player his age, 28 is the value you want him to become.

In comparison to 18 for bony and that is inflated.
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This is true

However to consider paying 28m for a player,as a manager you would have to weigh up if this is his value now based on his abilities and not what he may become(bit risky for a club of our meager finances)

So our manager rates him as a 28m player and so does the guy who handed over the cash to pay it

Now a 28m player you would assume could trap a ball,head a ball etc.....
 
Deggo said:
This is true

However to consider paying 28m for a player,as a manager you would have to weigh up if this is his value now based on his abilities and not what he may become(bit risky for a club of our meager finances)

So our manager rates him as a 28m player and so does the guy who handed over the cash to pay it

Now a 28m player you would assume could trap a ball,head a ball etc.....
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He can score goals, and as a striker he can not trap a ball all game as long as he takes that one chance he gets, like last night. Van nistelroy was not an all round footballer, he couldnt dribble past players or do some mad skills or even shoot from range, but he still scored more than most other players.

Point is the reason why he invested so much is because we had to. Here was a chance to sign an amazing prospect who averages 15 a season at a young age and to try and move the club forward we had to finally take the chance after spending so little previous years. How would we have all been if luakaku went somewhere like liverpool or wolfsberg or even newcastle becasue they stumped the money up and we didnt?

I am still under the belief that chelsea wanted to sell to balance their books only, and the reason why he went so much is because they kept asking for more money without officially accepting a bid. So they ask for 15, athletico interested. They go to 18, athletico drop out, they ask for 20, juve drop out, they ask for 25, wolfsburg drop out and then the loan fee is added on for us so we 'technically' pay them 28 million for him. chelsea make 10 million more to balance their books by simply raising the quote and we overpay but still get potentially our greatest striker since the 20s
 
Saint Domingo said:
The true value of Lukaku is this: when he finally got the ball under control and went in on the keeper did anyone really expect him to miss? No. Just because he's not fifa curling every shot into the top corner doesn't mean he isn't a great finisher. At times in the second half he'd made great runs and was screaming for the ball but it never arrived. Playing on the counter attack plays to his strengths perfectly. He's getting back to his best now. He had the touch, the power, the pace and the finishing tonight as well as the interplay and through balls that we were seeing last season v West Ham and Newcastle. The lad is quality and you only have to see our results last season without him to see how important he is.
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His accuracy in front of the net is inversely proportional to his 1st touch. And really that's all we need him to do. He's the 1st player that I've seen at Everton that opposing clubs are bat$%^& terrified of, even when he's in a slump. Those boss runs that Naismith makes don't happen unless Lukaku is dragging a defender or two all over the pitch.

My only worry about Rom is the workload he's been given. He's played in just about every single match.
 
mill said:
The finished article. What they don't consider is when he's the finished article he's going to cost £50m.
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He might be the finished article now,what's to say he's going to get better,this could be his peak,he may get worse,he may lose a yard of pace etc

People seem to assume he is going to be some world beater and we know what assumption is......
 
Rook said:
His accuracy in front of the net is inversely proportional to his 1st touch. And really that's all we need him to do. He's the 1st player that I've seen at Everton that opposing clubs are bat$%^& terrified of, even when he's in a slump. Those boss runs that Naismith makes don't happen unless Lukaku is dragging a defender or two all over the pitch.

My only worry about Rom is the workload he's been given. He's played in just about every single match.
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You must be very young then
 
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