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Alcaraz said:
Your confusing two issues here.

There are not many players that are versatile. If you want to train someone to be versatile, then he needs to have specific qualities. Lukaku has qualities which make him only suited to a Centre-Forward Role.

Let me give you an example. Lukaku is very Drogba-like.. Strength, good finishing ability, can hold the ball up etc. He does not have the pace nor flair to do an effective job on the wing. Neither does he have the vision, awareness or passing to play in the hole.

Notice some of the intangibles I listed. You cant really increase his pace or instill flair in him. Neither can you do much to improve his vision or awareness.

Therefore, due to this he is not a player who can be versatile. Even if it is a great quality to have I can list you many top players who are not versatile. Didier Drogba for starters. They are players specificially suited to play a certain position where they excel. Any other position and they are pants. Not entirely their fault

Plus match experience only works if you ware being utilized in the correct way. According to your logic, Manchester United should play Welbeck in any role.. even as a Centre-Back just so that he can be on the pitch because according to you thats better than sitting on the bench
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What do you learn sitting on the bench then? Explain that to me.
 
Alcaraz said:
You don't but you don't learn by being played out of position either. Lukaku said as much when he was blasting AVB
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I still think playing anywhere on the pitch is better than sitting on the bench. Playing him on the wing would not exactly harm him.
 
zzeezzy said:
I still think playing anywhere on the pitch is better than sitting on the bench. Playing him on the wing would not exactly harm him.
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Eh... Maybe your right but it would not do him any good either. As you can see, he will only get frustrated at being played out of position
 
Alcaraz said:
Eh... Maybe your right but it would not do him any good either. As you can see, he will only get frustrated at being played out of position
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Yeh I can appreciate that, but honestly you can't expect much more when you have Drogba and Torres playing the same position. Ideally he needs to be loaned out next season.
 
zzeezzy said:
Yeh I can appreciate that, but honestly you can't expect much more when you have Drogba and Torres playing the same position. Ideally he needs to be loaned out next season.
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Exactly and he seemed to understand that in the beginning. But I guess he never expected to receive so little game time
 
Alcaraz said:
Exactly and he seemed to understand that in the beginning. But I guess he never expected to receive so little game time
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In fairness should have seen it coming. Regardless of who was in charge.
 
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Lukaku looks so cold and unemotional at Chelsea glory
 
sunilvk7 said:
Week before when Chelsea were not favorites to sign him you were on other side. Funny how opinions changes within a week.
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He is big headed but that is because he CAN be.

Mike. said:
Chelsea triumph left me cold, says unhappy Romelu Lukaku | Football | guardian.co.uk

Chelsea triumph left me cold, says unhappy Romelu Lukaku

• 'I don't like people talking to me about the Champions League'
• Striker prefers loan deal to remaining on the bench

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Chelsea's Romelu Lukaku at a training camp with Belgium in Liège. Photograph: Photonews/Photonews via Getty Images

The Belgium and Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku said he felt no joy at his club's Champions League and FA Cup triumphs and would rather be loaned out than repeat a season warming the bench. The 19-year-old, who moved to Chelsea from Anderlecht a year ago, started only four times last season and came on as a substitute on eight occasions.
Lukaku told De Standaard newspaper that he would often leave a match after 70 minutes if he was watching from the stands and said he felt no sense of achievement when Chelsea won the FA Cup, in which he played only a few minutes in the third round.
"When [Salomon] Kalou put the cup on my lap in the bus I asked him to take it away immediately. I didn't want to touch it because just as with the Champions League I had no part in it at all," he told the newspaper on Thursday. "I don't like people talking to me about the Champions League. It wasn't me, but my team that won the trophy."
Lukaku said he had improved in training, was eating far fewer hamburgers and, despite good performances in the matches he had started, had failed to win a regular place in the team. "Chelsea really wanted me last summer and paid a lot for me but after a while I thought are you just throwing money around?" he said.
Lukaku said he would seek talks with Chelsea's manager, whether that was the incumbent Roberto Di Matteo or a successor. "During the conversation with the manager I will see whether he's serious about me or not. If not, I will go away on loan. I have to play," Lukaku said.
His fellow Belgian, the goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, joined Chelsea from Racing Genk a year ago, but was immediately loaned out to the Spanish side Atlético Madrid and was part of their Europa League-winning team.

This was predictable, should have gone on loan back to Anderlecht.
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Who do i blame for this?? The Journo asking him the questions. He has got an 18 year old lad and you can tell what his intentions are. It's like sending him into a tank of sharks, i'll take these comments with a pinch of salt.

Alcaraz said:
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Lukaku looks so cold and unemotional at Chelsea glory
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Was just about to say something like this, doesn't look too unhappy here.
 
[video=youtube;A32r0mtLdkA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A32r0mtLdkA[/video]
 
[video=youtube;ZEy_3wsZoWk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEy_3wsZoWk[/video]

Doesn't/never has done this for us!!!!!
 
Alcaraz said:
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Lukaku looks so cold and unemotional at Chelsea glory
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Don't tell me that if your favorite team won the CL final that you would terrible. I think he was happy that Chelsea won, but what I think he means is that he is very disappointed that he didn't contribute. Seriously, that picture just show the he is happy with his favorite team winning the CL final. I were as emotional when Chelsea won.
 
CJACKO11 said:
[video=youtube;ZEy_3wsZoWk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEy_3wsZoWk[/video]

Doesn't/never has done this for us!!!!!
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I remember him scoring a few wonder goals like that, cant remember when it was though, not recent anyway
 
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