The Fridge Full of Cash - Romelu Lukaku

The only player on the team right now who I'm absolutely positively sure isn't going to be sold is Hazard. Everyone else, much less those out on loan, can get sold. I'm afraid that story is very believable.

I'd say The safe ones would be Hazard, Oscar and Courtois tbh.

I'm not even sure Courtois will be playing for us next year.

I am, I think they'll let Cech go for Courtois.

I say keep both. I'd hate to see Big Pete leave.

I'd like to see that too, but knowing Jose, he'd play Cech and we'd end up losing Courtois.

I'd say Hazard and Oscar. Courtois is very much a coin-toss at this point. The rest all sellable as well, as Barry said.

fatman123 wrote:I believe this club is stupid enough to do anything atm, and lets be honest lukaku has the first touch of a corpse and that doesn't suit our style of play at all.

None of us would like to admit it, but a prime drogba would struggle in our system as it doesn't involve physicality and hold up play, the same us arguable of lukaku

That's an interesting note.

Much has been made about Chelsea's strikers and how they've been struggling, but personally I think that your formation is a really difficult one for a striker. The three AMs in your 4-2-3-1 like to keep the ball, like to build up attacks and take their own chances. Given the quality of your AMs and the way they like to play I actually think that a false-nine might be better suited for your game and click better with your AMs.

I mean, I've seen Torres try and play off the shoulder of defenders for you, looking to make that run to a through-ball, but the angles are never quite right in a 4-2-3-1, the tempo is often about having possession behind the striker than actually releasing him early, the mind-set of the AMs seems to be more about "how can I use our striker to lay off the ball for one of us three AMs" rather than setting particularly him up with a chance. Somehow it's not very direct and strikers usually have their best moments from direct plays. But in your formation your striker needs to play a lot with his back to the goal, receiving passes that are always meant to be passed back.

Anyway, you've got probably the best set of AMs in the world, so it's quite understandable that your play revolves around them.

While you have a point, Art, I don't think its that difficult for striker in this system tbh. The amount of one on one chances, tap in chances and platter of gold chances(like open nets) our strikers have missed this season is astonishing. A clinical striker would have converted 80% of those and probably be on a 20+ goal season already. Its that bad.

^ Exactly

I think our system requires a specific type of CF, the club will have to purchase perfectly to get it otherwise we'll have another Torres on our hands.

Not sure if Cavani is that guy or not.

No way it's cavani

Down and limping off with heavy help with an ankle injury. Looks bad.

 

Couldn't continue. Subbed off

Let's hope it's not serious.

NBC commentators saying paramedics saying it's ligament damage...

That could be his season over.

Liverpool

Ankle been put in a cast, says Henry Winter.

Yes, not good signs at all.

"There is no ligament damage and the injury is not as bad as we first thought. It will be a case of weeks rather than months."

Roberto Martinez on Lukaku, via evertonfc.com

Fantastic.

Chelsea plan Romelu Lukaku sale to fund summer move for Radamel Falcao:
The Blues want Radamel Falcao in the summer and will sell Romelu Lukaku to help fund it
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-transfer-news-rumours-romelu-3092344



First it was for Cavani, now Falcao. They've got feckin nothing

Falcao is likely injured long term, why oh why would we want him.