akumaface wrote:maguskwt wrote:bigmick wrote:woof woof ! wrote:Christ sake, I hope not, for twenty million I would hope that we've bought a player who can force himself into the starting lineup no matter how well Lucas plays.
So would I Woof, but in fairness we paid 8 million quid two years ago for Lucas as well. I'm not saying he's better than Aquilani far from it (and indeed like you I hope not) but he's obviously a better player now that when we first bought him (Lucas that is) so we either got severely ripped off when we first bought him, or his value has gone up from 8 million quid to a new value which could be anything.
He's got a huge advantage over Aquilani in that he's been here two years, and also if he plays in the first few matches he will be able to find his feet from a fitness point of view because the opposition will be finding theirs as well. Aquilani on the other hand when he comes back will be trying to almiatise, find his feet and get used to whole thing while playing against fully fit and wound up opponents.
If Lucas can't at the very least give the Italian a good run for his money given the advantages he's got, either Aquilani is a Worldbeater or Lucas is not very good. Or both is a possibility too I suppose
wow really mick? I haven't seen any significant improvement myself... Lucas remains one of our weakest players for me, together with dossenna, Babel, Ngog, Degen. Babel, Lucas and Ngog couldn't even break down Singapore's defence FFS...
Wow, who is the other Babel?I didn't know we have two as I think one is enough....
As for Lucas, he is simply not good enough. All these potential theory is really bull. He can't tackle, he commit foul after foul, he can't shoot, can't pass, can't dribble and slow. His skill is really limited and we just can't wait for him to improve wasting playing time and valuable points for him to grow. Carra and Gerrard is not getting younger. We must play our best team rather than playing the so called potentially good team. The best scenerio is to send him on loan to other EPL team (probably no takers...) to move away from the pressure but I read somewhere that he said he will go back to Brazil if his future is not clarified.
what two babels? dont' you see the full stop? it looks like this "." ...
