United close in on £100m Lukaku deal

comment by Abe Lackmann (U21076)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Don Draper's dandruff (U20155)
posted 6 hours, 13 minutes ago
comment by ＴＬＬＬ ★ (U4640)
posted 17 minutes ago
£100m
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difficult to take transfer fee wummery too seriously from a club that has twice managed to spend a huge fee on a player (roughly £90m on each, once you adjust for transfer fee inflation incidentally) only to see them completely flop and be shipped out on loan (with chelsea paying a chunk of their wages).

do we think that lukaku will score more than the 29 PL goals that torres and shevchenko managed between them? will he be shipped off on loan after a few years, before being released on a free? place your bets.

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This transfer inflation theory has got to be the worst argument and biggest exaggeration in this history of ja606
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Actually the worst argument is that Arsenal have the best player in every position in the league but haven't been relevant for 13 years

Let's be honest, we would have let Rooney leave on a free. Putting a figure on him just allows Everton to claim they got that magic 100 million fee that they claimed they wouldn't sell for less than. If they'd agreed a fee for Lukaku that could only rise to 85 million, then Rooney would have been valued at 15 million

100 mill for Lukaka.

You are having a laugh. Right?

This really is getting silly. Lets hope Ed has the balls to tell them to feckoff and lumber Chelsea with the rip off.

"Rooney, who is valued at £10m"

£100 million for Lukrapku!! You're welcome to him then.

comment by Robb Lukaku (U21234)
posted 7 hours, 29 minutes ago
Few would budge at Kane being valued at £100 million and yet Lukaku is hardly an inferior player.
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Kane scores more goals and also turns up in big games.

Lukaku has the first touch of a rocking horse, scores goals though, but so did Darren Bent

Lukaku is 24 just recently, he hasn't even finished developing yet, still 2 years away from his prime and is already one of the PL's best and has been for 3 years

comment by Abe Lackmann (U21076)

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This transfer inflation theory has got to be the worst argument and biggest exaggeration in this history of ja606
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yes, because inflation, either in the real world or in football, is a completely unheard of phenomenon, and should always be ignored.

https://tomkinstimes.com/transfer-price-index-top-100-premier-league-buys-after-inflation/

comment by Firmino's Brightest Tooth (U1217)
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
comment by Robb Lukaku (U21234)
posted 7 hours, 29 minutes ago
Few would budge at Kane being valued at £100 million and yet Lukaku is hardly an inferior player.
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Kane scores more goals and also turns up in big games.
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last season he had an almost identical record to lukaku - 4 goals vs the top 6, and twice as many goals vs lower half teams as against upper half teams.

and does anyone on here really think that levy would sell kane to united for £90m? what do you actually think the figure would be? i would guess he wouldn't even pick up the phone until an offer reached £120m, and it could quite easily end up at £150m.