Not just a 'shouldn't have sold him' article, but just discussing his development, as he split opinions among Chelsea fans. While a lot wanted him brought back from loan to be used into the squad (which was hardly unfair considering how he did) it was also rightly noted about how he had many limitations to his game. Poor challenging in the air, first touch, dribbling in tight spaces, and simple short passing.
Watching him this season I think it is the first time that I think he has started improving in these aspects, in particular his close control, hold up play and dribbling one on one with defenders, and I actually think it's quite a substantial/impressive improvement from the donkey we saw making cameos under AVB. Anyone see his outside of the boot cross for Kone last weekend?
IMO he's quite similar to Costa in style, and getting closer to his quality it seems each game. Tbh he'll probably end this season with more goals. Beyond his footballing qualities I also quite like his mentality. People say may say he was, 'unwilling to fight for his place at Chelsea' and therefore has an attitude problem..just like Sturridge and KDB had attitude problems for realising they could further their individual careers away from Chelsea (Bertrand too though less accusations about him), which they've all gone on to do. He believes in his ability, and like I said before his impressive improvement points to work put in by Lukaku developing his game.
When he moved many fans were iffy at the £30m price tag but let's be honest it's money well spent by Everton who do have one of the best young strikers in Europe right now. I do like watching him when he's on form atm and would have been interesting to see what happened if he'd stayed at Chelsea for the 14/15 season..
Lukaku
posted on 10/11/15
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Minididi
Winning a domestic double was worth having Jose back.
It was 5 years after our last PL and god knows when our next will be. Look at Arsenal it 12 years and counting so be grateful for the triumph he brought us.
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Well I thought we had turned into a club who were looking long term rather than short term? Or do we only care about success here and now rather than building a team to dominate for years to come?
posted on 10/11/15
Arsenal and Liverpool are team planning for the long term also, I guess we shouldn't mock them for not winning the league also.
Planning for long terms shouldn't hinder us from winning trophies in the short run except if we have decide to use the academy boys as our main team
posted on 10/11/15
comment by minididi (U17584)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by Bov "Envy is the biggest tribute that the shadows do to the man" (U6696)
posted 5 minutes ago
Minididi
Winning a domestic double was worth having Jose back.
It was 5 years after our last PL and god knows when our next will be. Look at Arsenal it 12 years and counting so be grateful for the triumph he brought us.
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Well I thought we had turned into a club who were looking long term rather than short term? Or do we only care about success here and now rather than building a team to dominate for years to come?
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Before Jose's return it was to "long term", we were signing young technical players with no thought to balance in terms of the pitch and the average age of the squad.
Take Jose's first season back, before we signed Willian we had 6 AMs and 5 were still elgligble for U21 footy, that's ridiculously inexperienced.
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posted on 11/11/15
Ridiculous that Chelsea sold him and bought Costa & a 38 year old Drogba
and won the League
BTW Who is this 38 yr old we bought
posted on 11/11/15
I really like Lukaku. I admittedly got sucked into all the Drogba 2.0 hype when he was at Anderlecht, so on the pitch I've felt slightly underwhelmed by him. Still a good player but nothing close to that standard.
What I've always liked about him is his confident and decisive character. Too many up and coming players today lack Lukaku's focus, intelligence and his forethought of realizing what's best for himself and his career. Very mentality strong individual, the sort of guy you'd want in the dressing room when we're going through periods like we are right now.
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posted on 11/11/15
Don't panic, the press report that Martinez will sell for £45m and that's it.
The same press that said Stones would be sold.
posted on 11/11/15
^ He won't come back to Chelsea unless we guarantee him #1 in that lone strikers role (which he's not quite good enough for yet). That's what I admire about him, die hard Chelsea fan but didn't commit to us because we wouldn't commit to him. Respect
posted on 11/11/15
Big fish in a small pond - love comments like that
He is an improving fish in a very big pond
His game has improved considerably under the coaching regime at Everton and I think the boat has sailed now on him playing for another premier league club, if he moves it will be abroad.