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wally said:
Name one club who has won the EPL with a flat track bully as their main striker?
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I don't know what you mean by flat track bully? Do you mean someone who is just a goal scorer and little else? 

So someone like Ruud van Nistlerooy? Diego Costa? 

wally said:
As for a better option? Well, that's the job of our scouts to go and find one. 
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Our scouts identified Lukaku. 

You name someone else. 

wally said:
his performances against the two top 6 teams he's faced. That's the point his critics have always held against him and nothing seems to have changed.
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You're criticising Lukaku for his performances in a game we played 45 minutes with 10 men away from home and another game where we won 3-0? 

wally said:
Personally, I would have kept Tammy (he didn't get a fair crack under TT) .
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You would rather has persisted with a striker our manager doesn't rate rather than buying one he does because of his resell value? 

 
wally said:
Resale value should be taken into account when you splash out a massive amount on a player.

Yes, his goal tally so far has been up to par, but not his performances against the two top 6 teams he's faced. That's the point his critics have always held against him and nothing seems to have changed.

Name one club who has won the EPL with a flat track bully as their main striker? They get found out in far too many of the big games and that's why you don't see the likes of City or Liverpool going in for these  type of technically deficient battering ram strikers.I've never been a fan of this type of striker and I never will.

As for a better option? Well, that's the job of our scouts to go and find one. Personally, I would have kept Tammy (he didn't get a fair crack under TT) and fiddled through with what we have until we found the right striker.
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Against Liverpool we were down to 10 men for a half, against Tottenham he should have had two assists and he brutalized Arsenal, who you've conveniently left out, despite being only one point behind Tottenham last season and having spent the most money in the PL. 

Also as others have said, our biggest problem last season was scoring goals against the "lesser" clubs. You're never going to win the Premier League if you can't score against them regularly. And so far he was vitally important in these kinds of games.

So to conclude: He did pretty well against the better clubs we faced, and very well against the "lesser" clubs we played. At least wait until he has a dip in form before you start complaining.

 
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Exactly. We need him foremost to win us games like the one against Zenit - games we will face pretty often - and not those matches where we have tons of space already when playing against another top-club.

Also the fact we start scoring from corners and set-pieces again without him being directly involved tells me that maybe he's helping us there as well since his presence in the oppo-box alone keeps defenders on their toes (his actually). Think it's been already three goals that way so far?

Now to link this back on topic to Reece James..

 
turnyitb said:
Played pretty well tonight in a makeshift back 3 and it changed his angle of cross nicely for the goal. 
Would like to see him there with Silva next to him 
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I never got the narrative we will waste him in that position, the majority of Azpi's best attacking contributions down the years have come from that role and as you said the crossing angles are actually better.

If we're still playing back 3 this time next year we should really consider resigning Livramento and moving James to RCB full time.

 
wally said:
I am critical of Marina agreeing to pay 100 million for a flat track bully who'll have little resale value at the end of his contract. I think it's another awful, Kepa, level panic buy deal. 

Imo, we should have waited until we could buy a better value for money striker and in the meantime find a way of getting more out of our players who have far greater technical ability than this big lump.
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wally said:
I am critical of Marina agreeing to pay 100 million for a flat track bully who'll have little resale value at the end of his contract. I think it's another awful, Kepa, level panic buy deal. 

Imo, we should have waited until we could buy a better value for money striker and in the meantime find a way of getting more out of our players who have far greater technical ability than this big lump.
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There is nothing panic about Lukaku.  Bought a complete player who is already delivering.  Enjoy a player in his prime.

 
Sadly he seems to be an injury prone player. Hope it doesn't get as bad as it was with RLC. 

Every time he goes down I'm afraid he won't get back up again.

 
Early sample size but based on his two penalties in the respective EFL cup shootouts I wonder if he may end up climbing the pecking order for the spot kicks in regulation play? Possibly even taking over from Jorgi when the time comes. 

 
Argo said:
Early sample size but based on his two penalties in the respective EFL cup shootouts I wonder if he may end up climbing the pecking order for the spot kicks in regulation play? Possibly even taking over from Jorgi when the time comes. 
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Chillwell has a shout at that too.

 
I absolutely love Reece James as a player. He's absolutely superb! Best right-back/right wing-back in the world.

 
Early days but I think he will be the biggest benefactor to the change in his Tuchel is using the wingbacks. I was pretty vocal over how I feel he was wasted as a pure wide wingback but allowing him to drift inside plays to his strengths a lot more.

 
Argo said:
Early days but I think he will be the biggest benefactor to the change in his Tuchel is using the wingbacks. I was pretty vocal over how I feel he was wasted as a pure wide wingback but allowing him to drift inside plays to his strengths a lot more.
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Prophetic!

 
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