To be honest Joey, I remember Del a year ago, supplying him with chance after chance
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To be honest Joey, I remember Del a year ago, supplying him with chance after chance
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
Moyes would have sacked him for not running the channels enough.
joey_macmo
Player Valuation: £35m
I think peak Cahill would have been the perfect foil for him personally.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
I totally agree but Moyes' big achilles heel was strikers. He ruined a number of them.
Rook
Player Valuation: £80m
To be honest Joey, I remember Del a year ago, supplying him with chance after chance
We should sign 2015 Del. Why did we ever let him leave?
We didn't.
He's still there.....we saw him at Watford.
Far better than Lennon, I hope most would agree.
The lad is being shamefully underused by Koeman.
But it ain't too late
DRM
Player Valuation: £10m
Him being "useless" today had little to do with him today, but with the "tactics" of RK. The first goal literally falls out of the sky and Lukaku's one as well. Barkley hoofs the ball away (as he should, considering where he was with the ball) and Lukaku makes something out of that.
paulbefc
Player Valuation: £60m
This couldn't have been more clearly demonstrated today. Unfortunately under Koeman and Martinez, far from playing to his strengths, we've largely been actively playing to his weaknesses, asking him to come deep to pick up balls back to goal with no one to pass it to. When he loses the ball (as pretty much anyone would in the same situation most of the time), people then call him crap and useless beyond finishing, which is laughable, as evidenced by the second goal and cross to Gueye.
It's clear we have to settle on a system in which we can get him picking up the ball and running at goal as opposed to away from it and as you say, surround him with quality players.
diggerdestroyer
Player Valuation: £40m
Lukaku equals a decent return in goals every season. Im happy with that.
But did he do anything to involve himself in the overall team play other than wait for those hoofs?
That's the problem with him. He's isolated because he doesn't involve himself, because he lacks the capability to do so. Therefore he's a luxury player for the vast majority of every game, and when he's your sole striker you simply can't afford to have him be that anonymous 89 minutes every game.
To be fair tubes he came deep, he went wide, he did try and get involved, but the big massive gap from midfield to attack was so big I expected a plane to land in it at 1 point.
Hes vastly isolated and has been all season.
When we stick the boy Gabi up top alongside him hes gonna make you cry.
paulbefc
Player Valuation: £60m
The whole point of only playing one striker is for them to focus on being there to finish the chances the creative players make. The problem, as perfectly shown today, is not Lukaku not involving himself, it's the failure of the system to involve him in the right way. As soon as we stopped hoofing it over his head and have him actual service, he started to cause problems e.g. the ball for Gueye. That was because we brought Barkley on, who had a good cameo and actually gave Lukaku a good ball to work with.
We shouldn't and don't need our lone striker building our attacks for us when his fellow attackers do the basics properly.
It's not though; that's where you and I will permanently disagree on this I fear, because the one striker system requires that player to link up play and bring other players up the pitch.
It's a team game of 11 players - not a team of 10 and one poacher.
Not at all, because if his role in a system with two strikers (or a "false nine", whatever) is to lead the line and get in behind, then fine.
My problem with Lukaku is that that isn't his current role - he's tasked with holding the ball up and he fails dismally at it. That's not his fault, it's the managers, but there needs to be an admission that his lack of ability to do it right now is a liability.
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