Every manager in the league would, in a heartbeat.
I’m not sure about the price tag, though.
He still has to prove he can do it consistently against the top sides, which has always been the issue when he has played in the Premier League.
I would happily have him back at United, and he is doubtless a better player than when he went to Inter, but let’s see how he fares against better defences and top sides.
All are similarly inconsistent. All good teams but flawed in some ways.
I expected more from Leicester, very flat start so far, and Villa are now finding their feet. I'm going to throw Brighton into the mix as a surprise team for this 'second division '. Defensively solid, good midfield, they finally seem to have discovered goals.
I'll go West Ham, Villa, Brighton. (It's a year too early for Everton as the depth isn't there when injuries and tiredness kicks in for the key 13-14 players)
Brighton have a great manager in Potter, and I enjoy watching them. And Moyes has again found his level at a club like West Ham - United was just too big a job for him, but he’s doing a great job with the Hammers.
Going to be a great season.
I think we have to ignore price tags now, football is daft on that front.
Don't forget, in the past he has been playing in poorer teams where he has largely carried the line on his own. No wonder he struggled against top teams. Now he is in an all round quality team so if opposition sides want to crowd him out that leaves space for other top players. He is very much stronger and better than before and Chelsea understand how to use him, to be fair it is obvious to everyone bar Man Utd ?.
I think for many fans that section is more interesting than the usual top 4. More unpredictable, more relatable, more teams have a chance of being in it etc. The top 4 is a rich mans league with the usual suspects over and over ?. Great if you are in it, not so much if you aren't.
Don’t get me wrong - I like Lukaku and was sorry to see him leave United. He was still a bit of a rough diamond with an iffy first touch, but always had goals in him.
I have a horrible feeling he will come back to haunt us ?
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Have you forgotten many of his hide and seek performances for Everton and Yernited?
He certainly looks like he's improved after his stint in Italy but let's see where he is come the end of this season.
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Just heard Moyes' interview on sky, how can he sit there and try to justify bringing Noble on yesterday for that pen???
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He said Noble is one of the best penalty takers in Europe
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He's got form for talking rubbish ??
In fairness to Noble he's got a very good pen conversion record, I just can't believe he actually went on and took it.
It was a poor pen aswell.
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City were looking for a striker and were willing to pay £150mil for Kane and didn’t look at Lukaku , even for Chelsea he was second choice
He is a very good player and has improved since he played in Italy but got to see how he does over a whole season here - if Klopp had £100mil to spend and needed a forward I don’t think he would have looked at Lukaku
But at Chelsea and the way they play - think it suits him well
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He understandably got disillusioned at Man U with being used as a target man during Jose's Park the bus years.. JM used him poorly and he still scored. He'll be twice the player he was for us at Chelsea.
United messed him up. Didn't play to his strengths, undermined his confidence. He scored plenty of goals at Everton, no complaints from us. He disappeared in big matches? What support did he have in those games, how far away where the midfielders to him? He was getting balls lumped to him and told to fend for himself on the whole. No wonder he didn't have much impact in those games. Him versus the defence for most of the games. He will score plenty for Chelsea and could well win them the league, either through his own goals or the space he creates for others by taking 2 or more defenders with him. He is a great fit for them.
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City missed a trick not going for him.
Pin-seeker
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The price of a player is irrelevant IMO,it’s not like it’s us who are paying for them ?
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Don't agree with the decision, don't rate noble as a player but he does have a fantastic pen record
Even in a pen shoot out for England under 21s in the final of the euros he scored 2 (they still lost)
However poor decision
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Did City offer £150 million for Kane
Can’t remember hearing that anywhere.
I heard they offered 125 but Levy wanted 150
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Firmino awful ?!? He has been key to our success over the past 5 years - if people don’t see how good he is then Imo it’s down to a lack of understanding of the way he plays for us
The GK is one of the best if not the best in the world
The fullbacks are both amongst the best in the world
Matip is criminally underrated but there isn’t many I would swap him for , Gomez is superb as well
Fabinho is imo the best DM in the world taking over from Kante - missing him last season was as big as missing VVD at times
Thiago is quality - Henderson is Henderson , oppo fans will never see what he brings to the team
And the front three are just lethal - Salah imo right now is the best in the Prem , Mane finding his form again and have Jota there to support
So yeah I think our first 11 is right up there - certainly better than Utd’s and Chelsea’s , City it’s close
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Potentially you could be right - I just don’t see it’s the type of player that Pep would want , unless Lukaku has adapted his game from being just a pure striker , there were flashes of it at the Euros but I don’t see him having that same involvement in the build up like Kane does - but Lukaku I have no doubt is going to look to prove a lot of people wrong
