It's because these muppets can't get past his price tag...they simply need to build a bridge and get over it
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It's because these muppets can't get past his price tag...they simply need to build a bridge and get over it
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
It's right that. The word lazy is just a code word for you know what.
AJ would chase every ball, he would hunt those corner flags like a true pro. AJ was white, in case you didnt realise.
Marcus Bent was the same, chase every ball, Marcus was bleck.
Lukaku at times I consider lazy, not in the sense that he doesnt work hard, he does, but he doesnt chase them corner flags like AJ.
Maybe its a European thing.
Lukaku puts the round thing in the square thing tho, thats all that really matters at the end of the day.
Its like 1912 New York in here tho.
Marcus Bent was the same, chase every ball, Marcus was bleck.
Lukaku at times I consider lazy, not in the sense that he doesnt work hard, he does, but he doesnt chase them corner flags like AJ.
Maybe its a European thing.
Lukaku puts the round thing in the square thing tho, thats all that really matters at the end of the day.
Its like 1912 New York in here tho.
Straq chased everything like a mad dog too...doesn't mean he's any good.
AJ was meh...Bent was meh
ijjysmith
Calm
Incorrect on both counts there my man.
Both were excellent in the systems we used at the times.
I loved AJ, hated Marcus Bent.
MY GOD, do you think im a racilist??!?!??!?!?!?!!??
Mind you, I hated Beattie, Tony Cottee and never really really warmed to Kevin Campbell.
AJ 17 in 61
Bent 7 in 55
I was so disappointed in AJ...was excited when we signed him.
No...just think your comparison is silly. They were try hard players with limited talent...like Straq.
ijjysmith
Calm
As if any striker in the world would have scored more goals the way we deployed strikers back then!
We finished 4th with Marcus Bent.
4th.
I wasnt comparing, I was just "adding" to the "debate" as to whether Big Ron was right.
No banerino.
Might have finished higher if we had Lukaku back then.
People often over complicate the whole role of a player: especially strikers. Pure and simple, a striker's primary role is to score goals.
If they're scoring goals then it is difficult to question their influence. Maybe you'd like them to do more in other areas, but that's less important.
On the other hand, if they're not scoring then you have the right to question other aspects: maybe they should work harder; move more et al.
Lukaku hasn't been perfect this season on a number of occasions and he's still scored. Really that merits some level of praise.
If he improved other aspects of his play then arguably he could score more, yet that's another point entirely and opens another discussion.
I remember arguing with a Kopite about Ruud van Nistelrooy. He proclaimed that he was, 'lazy, hardly moved from the box and didn't contribute'.
I pointed out he scored nearly 100 goals in 150 games; stats of just over 0.6 goals per game. He may stand around a lot, but he scores.
He didn't seem to understand the point I was putting a cross... maybe he was stuck in Emile Heskey contribution mode.
Me and my mate met AJ on his walk up to dat der Wembley in 09, his little lad was in full Everton kit and he was a cracking fella, he got mobbed when we got closer to the ground, but he still gave us a "bye lads" before the crowd swallowed him.
ijjysmith
Calm
He would have been about 12 mate.
I agree, to a degree, but then you have strikers like Costa, he scores goals and he puts himself about, I wish Lukaku was more like Costa, but Costas like what 28?
Lukaku doesnt help himself with his trampoline shins, which leads people to question his "talent", but honestly, people really do forget hes still only 21.
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