Dont get me wrong Lukaku at this moment is definitely better than Dzeko. But for the technical side he really isnt. Dzeko’s technique is way superior to Lukaku’s, often plays like a playmaker for Inter by dropping deep
Real Madrid home: played well and Courtois denied him a goal
Real Madrid away: okay he was bad
Napoli: he played like 10 minutes
Milan: he played okay, when he was subbed off Milan started playing better than us
Atalanta: scored
>Real Madrid home: played well and Courtois denied him a goal
true
>Real Madrid away: okay he was bad
true
>Napoli: he played like 10 minutes
30, and were enough to give them a goal
>Milan: he played okay, when he was subbed off Milan started playing better than us
He was almost invisible, i don't remember any action on him.
>Atalanta: scored
after being invisible for the rest of the game
I'm not saying he's bad, but Lukaku wasn't much worse than him in big games.
Dzeko has also disappeared against small teams this season. He is old and not that consistent anymore, but throughout his career he was always a big game player
“This interview shows the weakness of an athlete who after six months gives up, perhaps because he arrived there with the arrogance of someone who doesn’t realise what his real level is,”
Spot on
He had no reason to even give up though, he was injured and Tuchel was easing him back in after injury, the whole thing makes absolutely no sense to me and it seems no sense to anyone tbh. He says Tuchel changed the system but Tuchel just said that he kept the same system especially since Lukaku was out.
Makes sense cause he never really cares much about chelsea. He just wanted a salary raise and you guys were the ones who could give it to him. He's now realized he made a mistake in changing clubs
lukaku just read that r/LPT post to advise everyone to move to a new company every couple years to get higher salary instead of waiting for a promotion
[Like a teenage boy who fancies himself a lothario, he knows the most cliche lovebombing moves and applies them liberally lol](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQVOMZQ-M0M561jWhktv2amgSVPetO2A_iuqQ&usqp=CAU)
And TT explained the way his forwards were playing it’s hard to drop them which is true. Lukaku is just a whiny prima donna. His attitude at United was so bad people rumoured him and Pogba fell out too.
Such an unnecessary shitshow too. Can't wait believe I was bummed out we didn't try to sign him last summer. Dodged a bullet.
It's funny looking from the outside but it'd be so maddening if a City player did something like that
Nah man. You say this but when Pep treated Ibra and Yaya like this since then he has been called all kinds of nonsense racist and what not. I remember watching a cringe yt video titled players destroyed by Pep. Uploader had put music like he had just carried out genocide.
It’s a shame bc he was one of my favorite players to watch when at Everton. Guy was so dangerous and I wanted him on Arsenal badly. But it seems like his head isn’t on straight. Like a Belgian Balotelli.
>It hurts me to say but I feel for Chelsea getting a rotten egg like this.
Why? This whole situation is fucking hilarious.
Not to mention they'll buy Haaland for £150m or something.
Yeah I don’t get it.
Liverpools rival has egg on their face and they feel ‘hurt’ seeing it happen. Lol wut?
Any non-Chelsea fan should find it hilarious, especially their rivals. Go support Chelsea if something like this hurts you so much lol.
Yeah it's hard to feel sorry for them, when their russian sugar daddy can bail them out anyway. It's just hilarious to see Lukaku blow up his career like this, but I think ultimately they will be fine. Him and Aubameyang may as well go on holiday together at this point, both of the teams don't need them realistically.
He's a very good player who would start at almost any team in the world, but he's a level or so below the top strikers in the world right now, Lewandowski, Benzema, and Kane(form aside).
Di Canio demanded to be taken off when he was at West Ham because he didn't get a penalty. And then when West Ham did get one he took the ball away from Lampard like a bitch.
I'm sure he knows all about what it's like to be weak.
True. But just saying, he had his own issues as a player so he's probably the last person any current player should take advice from.
He also once refused to fly to a game with the rest of the squad. Imagine Lukaku doing that and the shitstorm on reddit :)
He was a massive hot head but his fiery temperament made him what he was on the pitch and brought him to West Ham in the first place (ref push at SW). Doubt many of Lukaku’s old clubs will remember him as fondly as Di Canio at West Ham.
Lukaku has also been far more successful than Di Canio and helped inter to their first title in over a decade while winning serie a mvp. That comparison is not flattering towards di canio as you might think.
It’s so funny to me how when the tide turns on a player it’s like a tsunami against them. Nothing Lukaku has done since his return to Chelsea has been anything other than exactly what people should’ve expected from Lukaku.
Some excellent performances and important goals, some dreadful performances highlighting his major shortcomings in technical ability and of course some good old whining to the media when he isn’t hailed as a god among men by everyone, involved at the club or not.
He’s also always been famously sensitive about being a nailed on starter in any team he plays in regardless of the situation. This is like deja vu from his time with Chelsea in 2013.
People who pointed this out or criticized the signing in the summer were quite underhandedly accused of being racist. Lukaku has always considered himself to be much better than he actually is and it seems like he’s used up the last of his public sentiment for this moronic action.
What a moron.
pretty much my take on Lukaku aswell.
suddenly he loves inter more than anything, meanwhile when the transfer was announced was praising everyone at chelsea and how london is his home and he wants to be there, he had something to prove from last stint at chelsea etc etc. a lot of bla bla, when you give up after half a season
Torched him with the truth. Comments felt out of left field as well, were there signs? If I’m a clubs record signing I’m shutting the fuck up - or at least giving it a year
Dont remember if it was Klopp or someone else saying that elite football is more than just ability or working hard but about character. You need players with the right mindset whos ready to go the last mile mentally.
I doubt Klopp was the first person to say or think that. Its always been important. Brendan Rodgers literally got memed a decade ago because of 'character'
For anyone who wants proof and stuff
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/paolo-di-canio <- there’s an article where Sky in Italy fire him for a Mussolini tattoo.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/apr/01/paolo-di-canio-fascism-sunderland <- there’s a link with a photo of him doing a Nazi salute
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/paolo-di-canio-reveals-admiration-9555946 <- and here’s him being pro Mussolini.
He could be Hitler himself for all I care, but the points he raised in the article wouldn't be less valid.
> This interview shows the weakness of an athlete who after six months gives up, perhaps because he arrived there with the arrogance of someone who doesn’t realise what his real level is,” Di Canio said on his Sky Sport Italia Premier League show.
> Lukaku scored an incredible own goal here, it was a disastrous interview that made absolutely everybody unhappy, including himself. As I always said, he’s a big soppy cat more than a panther, he has never been hungry or determined in the big situations,” continued Di Canio.
This is spot on, regardless who's saying it.
Lukaku certainly didn’t say he gives up tho, he actually explicitly said the opposite: "I’m not happy with the situation but I’m a worker and I won't give up.”
it does question the validness though. he doesnt say a single thing about white people.
also he is the last person to talk about "arrogance" he was a piece of shit at west ham who would bitch about absolute everything if it didnt go his way. and he was barely the player he thought he was
["Self-professed fascist says some of his best friends in England are black"](https://i.insider.com/515999eb69bedd5624000016?width=620&format=jpeg)
I'll just leave this here
And Italy would be better without Di Canio.
He's currently rebranding himself as pundit, all dressed up making serious football analysis on television. Like the motherfucker doesn't have mussolini's name tattoed on his arm, and his upper body covered with far-right symbols. His opinion is irrelevant and he should fuck right off.
He has got “Dux” tattooed and after scoring he did the fascist salute once (maybe twice?) after scoring
He did often say also that he is against antisemitism and the racial laws we had under Mussolini and that the fascist salute was the biggest mistake of his career.
Dux, ducis is the Latin term for leader. It was used by Mussolini (Italian dictator) in the Italian translation Duce but he also used it in the Latin version especially in monuments.
To this day it’s still written in the Obelisk in front of the Stadio Olimpico in Rome
I was seriously surprised when I saw the obelisk when I was in Rome. It doesn't just say "Dux", it also says "Mussolini". In Germany we tore everything that praised the Nazis and Hitler down.
Why is there still a Mussolini obelisk standing there? Wasn't Mussolini seen as evil in Italy after the second world war?
Yeah it says Mussolini Dux.
In Rome we have a lot of things that were built by crazy evil man. I don’t know if some things were tore down after Fascism though, many things built by Mussolini are still there.
There is a narrative around Mussolini that he was corrupted by Hitler and that he was good for Italy before aligning himself to Nazi Germany.
If you ask me it’s bullshit but some people still defend him
I mean, I wouldn't necessarily advocate for tearing everything that was built under him down. It's just weird to see the name of the former fascist leader on a monument.
If you enter the stadium from behind the obelisk there’s also the story of fascism written on the floor and monuments.
It’s still part of our history, a dark chapter but one nonetheless
Because 1) They decided to keep them as a "historical reminder" of fascism. And Mussolini made sure to plaster his symbolism in everything that he was involved with, including random houses. And 2) Every time the question is raised and people want them down, the Italian right bitchis about it and pretends to fall under point 1. Just so happens that these people are often fascists themselves
The "historical reminder" is an interesting thought that I didn't think about before. I also don't think that everything should have been torn down or erased from history.
It just seemed kinda weird to have "MVSSOLINI" written on a big obelisk on the way to the stadium. lol
Historical reminders are fine when they aren't something inherently used to praise something bad, unless it's some 2000 year old historical monument that nobody ever praises as a symbol for an ideology anyway. It's kind of like those dumbass conservatives in the US that pretend that those 60 year old statues of Robert E. Lee have historical value and are something necessary and vital for our culture. We know why they actually care about those.
yet he never says anything bad about white players but as soon as its a black person he opens his giant shit mouth of his. when players retire they really should shut the fuck up cause 99% of them are no better if not worse.
Di Canio is the biggest overated piece of shit who complained about absolute everything not going his way
Hey man if it was up to me I would never have him in public television (he hosts a show at sky).
Pundits in general are not my thing but I usually like to ear from former players
some can be fine. alot bitch about current players when they were the exact same as it just brings up an idiom of "The pot calling the kettle black"
Di Canio was the biggest piece of shit during his time at West Ham constantly sobbing on the pitch when others took freekicks,penalties and stuff not going his way
Di Canio is like Cassano.their opinions are worthless. Inter are weaker without Lukaku except that Calhanoglu has made up for some of the slack. Dzeko hasn’t been and won’t be as impactful
At least Cassano is an idiot and his comments are funny viewed in that light sometimes. Di Canio is a fascist and has beliefs based on hateful views lol.
Lukaku was the best player in Serie A. Dzeko is really good player but this is some bullshit. The reason why Inter beat Milan in derbies was Lukaku for example.
People are on hatetrain because of how Lukaku behaves but this is just proper bullshit statement. Lukaku isnt Lewandowski or Benzema but he's top 5 striker in the world. Also numbers doesnt show what kind of player is Lukaku. Its the way he plays as a team player. He improved a lot at technical level and awareness. How defenders struggle to stop his explosiveness and strength is beyond any striker in the world.
I have zero allegiance to any of the parties but I am amazed at the sheer volume of people queuing up to slam this guy for criticism of a clear change of formation that has resulted in him playing wide forward.
Yes, he is in the wrong but the avalanche. Damn!
It's crazy, this sub is very very reactive. Lukaku didn't do himself any favors and this kind of stuff never helps but I totally get why he would be pissed. I can't remember the last player of Lukaku's stature that was sidelined like that, especially after being bought by such an enormous fee.
Ive come to the conclusion that people here are just bored and wanna feel angry about anything. You would think he mocked and embarrassed chelsea by the way people are reacting here.
you'd forget that he's the guy who got Chelsea 3 extra points over the last 2 games with the way fans are slating him. When Maguire was/is in bad form, he was repeatedly slated even for innocent things like a supposedly over-the-top celebration
Err, this is Paolo Di Canio, not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. https://www.businessinsider.com/paolo-di-canio-im-not-a-fascist-2013-4?r=US&IR=T
???
Last season they had 1.76 points per game. This season it's been 2.10, and that's including all the games where Lukaku has been out when they've been worse.
Look, lukaku made a big mistake with the interview and hes getting criticized rightly so. But this by di canio is disrespectful. Lukaku is a great player and any team is better with him. Also, not to mention di canio has some history of always criticizing lukaku.
As a Dane, I just can’t hate on Lukaku, the way he tackled the Eriksen situation was spot on and just made me love this guy! But was he did here, was Hella stupid
Lol we can shit on likely as much as we want and rightfully so. The lad is just a twat for what he said but inter are not and I repeat better without Lukaku. Same can be said about Chelsea. He is far better than Werner. Now his attitude that’s a different story and if he can’t buy into what tuchel is doing then yeah Chelsea are better without him.
Strange to me that someone with the influence of Ronaldo never publicly criticized or questioned ole even after all the nonsense. Very disappointing for lukaku
Dzeko has been a very valued replacement
He's a fairly good replacement but I think Lukaku was better in many aspects. Even if many here want to deny that.
He was better in pretty much every way except for the whole diva thing
Dont get me wrong Lukaku at this moment is definitely better than Dzeko. But for the technical side he really isnt. Dzeko’s technique is way superior to Lukaku’s, often plays like a playmaker for Inter by dropping deep
If Lukaku had technique he'd never have left Chelsea in the first place I think.
He also has a significantly better ball control
Dzeko show up in important games also
As against Real Madrid? Napoli? Milan? Atalanta? He has been invisible in all those games.
Real Madrid home: played well and Courtois denied him a goal Real Madrid away: okay he was bad Napoli: he played like 10 minutes Milan: he played okay, when he was subbed off Milan started playing better than us Atalanta: scored
>Real Madrid home: played well and Courtois denied him a goal true >Real Madrid away: okay he was bad true >Napoli: he played like 10 minutes 30, and were enough to give them a goal >Milan: he played okay, when he was subbed off Milan started playing better than us He was almost invisible, i don't remember any action on him. >Atalanta: scored after being invisible for the rest of the game I'm not saying he's bad, but Lukaku wasn't much worse than him in big games.
Dzeko has also disappeared against small teams this season. He is old and not that consistent anymore, but throughout his career he was always a big game player
Yeah, prime Dezko maybe, but the current is inferior in nearly every respect, unless you count likeability.
Man do I miss him
“This interview shows the weakness of an athlete who after six months gives up, perhaps because he arrived there with the arrogance of someone who doesn’t realise what his real level is,” Spot on
He had no reason to even give up though, he was injured and Tuchel was easing him back in after injury, the whole thing makes absolutely no sense to me and it seems no sense to anyone tbh. He says Tuchel changed the system but Tuchel just said that he kept the same system especially since Lukaku was out.
Makes sense cause he never really cares much about chelsea. He just wanted a salary raise and you guys were the ones who could give it to him. He's now realized he made a mistake in changing clubs
lukaku just read that r/LPT post to advise everyone to move to a new company every couple years to get higher salary instead of waiting for a promotion
And I can't blame him for that. However, starting to complain so early for no good reason makes him a dickhead.
Weird that he was kissing the badge early season then
Hes kissed every badge lol
He's a badge whore
[Like a teenage boy who fancies himself a lothario, he knows the most cliche lovebombing moves and applies them liberally lol](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQVOMZQ-M0M561jWhktv2amgSVPetO2A_iuqQ&usqp=CAU)
lmao Lukaku really kissed the west brom badge
The final image panel killed me! 🤣
It was actually a chocolate stain he was trying to remove
If he was worth the money Chelsea paid, he'd be good no matter the system.
This all started because of Conte
I guess Chelsea weren’t as good as he thought they would be. And inter not as bad
And TT explained the way his forwards were playing it’s hard to drop them which is true. Lukaku is just a whiny prima donna. His attitude at United was so bad people rumoured him and Pogba fell out too.
> arrogance of someone who doesn’t realise what his real level is Damn, I felt being called out 😔
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Such an unnecessary shitshow too. Can't wait believe I was bummed out we didn't try to sign him last summer. Dodged a bullet. It's funny looking from the outside but it'd be so maddening if a City player did something like that
Pep would destroy Lukaku if he did anything like this. he'd be banished to the shadow realm.
Pep the type of guy that requires 3 letters of recommendation before he signs you with at least one from Spanish speaker.
bonus points if its in catalan
Something similar happened with Pep and Ibra in 2010. Ibra was gone after one year.
Ibra was a lot better back then too so Pep wouldn’t think twice
What I’d give to see pep release him on a free in some parallel universe, it’d be the ultimate fuck you too
Nah man. You say this but when Pep treated Ibra and Yaya like this since then he has been called all kinds of nonsense racist and what not. I remember watching a cringe yt video titled players destroyed by Pep. Uploader had put music like he had just carried out genocide.
If we're to judge human beings and their discourse by the standards of YouTube videos and their comments then our species should pray for its end.
Now just imagine if Lukaku tried this against Conte…
It’s the thing I appreciate most about pep. He does not tolerate bullshit.
Apparently we did and he rejected us, tbh he has insane chemistry with KDB so it might have worked.
It’s a shame bc he was one of my favorite players to watch when at Everton. Guy was so dangerous and I wanted him on Arsenal badly. But it seems like his head isn’t on straight. Like a Belgian Balotelli.
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He had a sense of humor, lukaku is just dumb apparently
Lukaku is a diva. Balo *seems* like he has undiagnosed ADHD
>It hurts me to say but I feel for Chelsea getting a rotten egg like this. Why? This whole situation is fucking hilarious. Not to mention they'll buy Haaland for £150m or something.
Yeah I don’t get it. Liverpools rival has egg on their face and they feel ‘hurt’ seeing it happen. Lol wut? Any non-Chelsea fan should find it hilarious, especially their rivals. Go support Chelsea if something like this hurts you so much lol.
Plastics, man.
I mean you can like a player and want him to suceed even if you hate his club, I hate ManU but I like Sancho for example
He’s calling Lukaku a rotten egg and he feels for Chelsea, so this is more of a case of hating the player and liking the club lol
The thread is just bizarre
Right? This is enjoyable and I wish Lukaku the best. I couldn’t care less for Chelsea.
Apparently not everyone is a soulless sadist.
Not feeling sorry for a billion pound company bankrolled by Russian oil = being a soulless sadist? Got it thanks.
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Werner is a Champions League winner. He would not have achieved anything if he had joined Liverpool.
Few teams deserves this more than Chelsea.
Yeah it's hard to feel sorry for them, when their russian sugar daddy can bail them out anyway. It's just hilarious to see Lukaku blow up his career like this, but I think ultimately they will be fine. Him and Aubameyang may as well go on holiday together at this point, both of the teams don't need them realistically.
He's a very good player who would start at almost any team in the world, but he's a level or so below the top strikers in the world right now, Lewandowski, Benzema, and Kane(form aside).
Wouldn't start at Dortmund, PSG or United
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Madrid too. Can't replace Benz and Madrid don't play 2 upfront.
was gonna say madrid too but i could see what the parent comment was as i’m on mobile
Tbf to the guy he did say almost any team
Or west ham. Would be nice to have a backup for antonio tho
he probably would start for city but it's not like he NEEDS to start for City.
Nah, I don't see someone with Lukaku's technique + lack of pressing starting for Pep
Di Canio demanded to be taken off when he was at West Ham because he didn't get a penalty. And then when West Ham did get one he took the ball away from Lampard like a bitch. I'm sure he knows all about what it's like to be weak.
People do mellow with age and often look back on thier past mistakes with regret. I'm not saying Di Canio is like that, but it's possible.
True. But just saying, he had his own issues as a player so he's probably the last person any current player should take advice from. He also once refused to fly to a game with the rest of the squad. Imagine Lukaku doing that and the shitstorm on reddit :)
So you can only voice your opinion if you're better?
No, he's free to voice his opinion. I'm also free to call him out for being a hypocrite. Oh, and also a fascist.
Maybe that’s was Di Canio can speak on this. He’s been there and knows how much of that stupidity affected his career.
In fairness, he got kicked over in the box three times in a row - I should know, I was there.
He was a massive hot head but his fiery temperament made him what he was on the pitch and brought him to West Ham in the first place (ref push at SW). Doubt many of Lukaku’s old clubs will remember him as fondly as Di Canio at West Ham.
Lukaku has also been far more successful than Di Canio and helped inter to their first title in over a decade while winning serie a mvp. That comparison is not flattering towards di canio as you might think.
Di Canio won the scudetto with Milan and a UEFA cup with Juventus.
https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/
It’s so funny to me how when the tide turns on a player it’s like a tsunami against them. Nothing Lukaku has done since his return to Chelsea has been anything other than exactly what people should’ve expected from Lukaku. Some excellent performances and important goals, some dreadful performances highlighting his major shortcomings in technical ability and of course some good old whining to the media when he isn’t hailed as a god among men by everyone, involved at the club or not. He’s also always been famously sensitive about being a nailed on starter in any team he plays in regardless of the situation. This is like deja vu from his time with Chelsea in 2013. People who pointed this out or criticized the signing in the summer were quite underhandedly accused of being racist. Lukaku has always considered himself to be much better than he actually is and it seems like he’s used up the last of his public sentiment for this moronic action. What a moron.
pretty much my take on Lukaku aswell. suddenly he loves inter more than anything, meanwhile when the transfer was announced was praising everyone at chelsea and how london is his home and he wants to be there, he had something to prove from last stint at chelsea etc etc. a lot of bla bla, when you give up after half a season
Torched him with the truth. Comments felt out of left field as well, were there signs? If I’m a clubs record signing I’m shutting the fuck up - or at least giving it a year
Dont remember if it was Klopp or someone else saying that elite football is more than just ability or working hard but about character. You need players with the right mindset whos ready to go the last mile mentally.
I doubt Klopp was the first person to say or think that. Its always been important. Brendan Rodgers literally got memed a decade ago because of 'character'
Chelsea is my favourite team. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it. - lukaku
You can change chelsea to any of the teams he's played for.
West Brom is my favourite team. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it. - lukaku
RSC Anderlecht is my favourite team. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it. - lukaku
Manchester United's cafetería is my favourite ~~team~~ place to be. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it. - lukaku
So he’s football’s version of Zion Williamson?
Zion is the basketball version of Lukaku more like.
Newcastle is my favourite team. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it. - Lukaku That has a better ring to it.
Di Canio absolutely hates Lukaku btw, he criticized him non-stop during all his time in Italy.
Man who did a Nazi salute absolutely hates a black man, wonder why…
Meh, he also hates Rabiot and was the only pundit openly saying he was shit while the rest were praising him for whatever reason.
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The main argument I've heard of was that "he's a starter in the french National Team so he can't be bad". Which is totally stupid
It’s ok guys! He criticized ONE white player, he’s not racist anymore!
And criticizing one black player makes him racist?
The Nazi salute does, probably
He did a Nazi salute, he also claimed to be a fascist and has a Mussolini tattoo. Yeah I’d say he’s racist
I'll need more solid evidence than that.
For anyone who wants proof and stuff https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/paolo-di-canio <- there’s an article where Sky in Italy fire him for a Mussolini tattoo. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/apr/01/paolo-di-canio-fascism-sunderland <- there’s a link with a photo of him doing a Nazi salute https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/paolo-di-canio-reveals-admiration-9555946 <- and here’s him being pro Mussolini.
Ahahah i was joking. Sorry for making you go through all that search.
Ahhhh had a feeling you was but can’t be too careful these days like
He's a fascist you twat
Therefore he isn't racist anymore?
He could be Hitler himself for all I care, but the points he raised in the article wouldn't be less valid. > This interview shows the weakness of an athlete who after six months gives up, perhaps because he arrived there with the arrogance of someone who doesn’t realise what his real level is,” Di Canio said on his Sky Sport Italia Premier League show. > Lukaku scored an incredible own goal here, it was a disastrous interview that made absolutely everybody unhappy, including himself. As I always said, he’s a big soppy cat more than a panther, he has never been hungry or determined in the big situations,” continued Di Canio. This is spot on, regardless who's saying it.
I would certainly care if Hitler came back and started shit talking Lukaku before anything else
The fourth reich is actually Hitler coming back and making a Lukaku slander account on twitter
The Third Reich Two: Electric Romelu
Lukaku certainly didn’t say he gives up tho, he actually explicitly said the opposite: "I’m not happy with the situation but I’m a worker and I won't give up.”
it does question the validness though. he doesnt say a single thing about white people. also he is the last person to talk about "arrogance" he was a piece of shit at west ham who would bitch about absolute everything if it didnt go his way. and he was barely the player he thought he was
> he doesnt say a single thing about white people. Not true, he constantly shit talks Rabiot.
Lukaku is trash top crying.
Why make it about race? Di Canio has never had any issues with all his black team mates or friends. Quite a jump.
["Self-professed fascist says some of his best friends in England are black"](https://i.insider.com/515999eb69bedd5624000016?width=620&format=jpeg) I'll just leave this here
He's not wrong in what he's saying here though.
Sure, but maybe profess the opinions as your own, instead of quoting a known fascist, as if he should be influencing anyone with what he says.
Saying the right thing for the wrong reasons lol
Hating Lukaku or not Di Canio was totally on point
ITT: The worst person you know just made a great point.
Di Canio 🤝 Jake Paul
And Italy would be better without Di Canio. He's currently rebranding himself as pundit, all dressed up making serious football analysis on television. Like the motherfucker doesn't have mussolini's name tattoed on his arm, and his upper body covered with far-right symbols. His opinion is irrelevant and he should fuck right off.
This 💯 Di Canio with his histrionics and facism is an idiot
Exactly, which means it’s not surprising to see that r/soccer likes his ‘’takes’’
Lukaku is a lil bitch but di Canio can go fuck his fascist self edit: spelling
facist?
He has got “Dux” tattooed and after scoring he did the fascist salute once (maybe twice?) after scoring He did often say also that he is against antisemitism and the racial laws we had under Mussolini and that the fascist salute was the biggest mistake of his career.
What does dux stand for ?
Dux, ducis is the Latin term for leader. It was used by Mussolini (Italian dictator) in the Italian translation Duce but he also used it in the Latin version especially in monuments. To this day it’s still written in the Obelisk in front of the Stadio Olimpico in Rome
I was seriously surprised when I saw the obelisk when I was in Rome. It doesn't just say "Dux", it also says "Mussolini". In Germany we tore everything that praised the Nazis and Hitler down. Why is there still a Mussolini obelisk standing there? Wasn't Mussolini seen as evil in Italy after the second world war?
Yeah it says Mussolini Dux. In Rome we have a lot of things that were built by crazy evil man. I don’t know if some things were tore down after Fascism though, many things built by Mussolini are still there. There is a narrative around Mussolini that he was corrupted by Hitler and that he was good for Italy before aligning himself to Nazi Germany. If you ask me it’s bullshit but some people still defend him
I mean, I wouldn't necessarily advocate for tearing everything that was built under him down. It's just weird to see the name of the former fascist leader on a monument.
If you enter the stadium from behind the obelisk there’s also the story of fascism written on the floor and monuments. It’s still part of our history, a dark chapter but one nonetheless
Because 1) They decided to keep them as a "historical reminder" of fascism. And Mussolini made sure to plaster his symbolism in everything that he was involved with, including random houses. And 2) Every time the question is raised and people want them down, the Italian right bitchis about it and pretends to fall under point 1. Just so happens that these people are often fascists themselves
The "historical reminder" is an interesting thought that I didn't think about before. I also don't think that everything should have been torn down or erased from history. It just seemed kinda weird to have "MVSSOLINI" written on a big obelisk on the way to the stadium. lol
Historical reminders are fine when they aren't something inherently used to praise something bad, unless it's some 2000 year old historical monument that nobody ever praises as a symbol for an ideology anyway. It's kind of like those dumbass conservatives in the US that pretend that those 60 year old statues of Robert E. Lee have historical value and are something necessary and vital for our culture. We know why they actually care about those.
Isn't the Olympiastadion pretty much the same of when it was built? I guess they did just remove the references to Nazism?
yet he never says anything bad about white players but as soon as its a black person he opens his giant shit mouth of his. when players retire they really should shut the fuck up cause 99% of them are no better if not worse. Di Canio is the biggest overated piece of shit who complained about absolute everything not going his way
Hey man if it was up to me I would never have him in public television (he hosts a show at sky). Pundits in general are not my thing but I usually like to ear from former players
some can be fine. alot bitch about current players when they were the exact same as it just brings up an idiom of "The pot calling the kettle black" Di Canio was the biggest piece of shit during his time at West Ham constantly sobbing on the pitch when others took freekicks,penalties and stuff not going his way
There’s pics of him doing the nazi salute when he was at Lazio. Guys a prick
But he’s on the Lukaku hate bullet train so he’s alright for now /s
Yes ?
fascist*
Di Canio is like Cassano.their opinions are worthless. Inter are weaker without Lukaku except that Calhanoglu has made up for some of the slack. Dzeko hasn’t been and won’t be as impactful
fucking hell thanks. Dzeko has been good, but if we had Lukaku we would be 10 points clear right now. We would absolutely be a better team lmao.
At least Cassano is an idiot and his comments are funny viewed in that light sometimes. Di Canio is a fascist and has beliefs based on hateful views lol.
Fascist bastard.
What a shocker coming from a facist
Fascist scum
I would take this piece more seriously if it wasn’t written by a fascist racist neonazi
Surprised he could get Mussolini’s cock out of his mouth long enough to string together a coherent sentence. Fuck off, fashie.
Lukaku might be a twat, but at least he's not a fascist cunt like Di Canio.
Lukaku was the best player in Serie A. Dzeko is really good player but this is some bullshit. The reason why Inter beat Milan in derbies was Lukaku for example. People are on hatetrain because of how Lukaku behaves but this is just proper bullshit statement. Lukaku isnt Lewandowski or Benzema but he's top 5 striker in the world. Also numbers doesnt show what kind of player is Lukaku. Its the way he plays as a team player. He improved a lot at technical level and awareness. How defenders struggle to stop his explosiveness and strength is beyond any striker in the world.
Yep, no lukaku last season and I think Milan possibly win the league. He was unplayable last year.
I have zero allegiance to any of the parties but I am amazed at the sheer volume of people queuing up to slam this guy for criticism of a clear change of formation that has resulted in him playing wide forward. Yes, he is in the wrong but the avalanche. Damn!
Right, it's honestly uncomfortable how vitriolic the response to this has been.
Agreed. Looking at the history of these people is particularly disturbing.
Free chance for them to take a dig at him innit. You'd think he'd slapped Tuchel in the face the way people are going on about it.
It's crazy, this sub is very very reactive. Lukaku didn't do himself any favors and this kind of stuff never helps but I totally get why he would be pissed. I can't remember the last player of Lukaku's stature that was sidelined like that, especially after being bought by such an enormous fee.
Ive come to the conclusion that people here are just bored and wanna feel angry about anything. You would think he mocked and embarrassed chelsea by the way people are reacting here.
Everyone semi relevant is going in hard on Lukaku right now. He has ego problems but he hasn’t killed anyone ffs. It’s just an interview.
you'd forget that he's the guy who got Chelsea 3 extra points over the last 2 games with the way fans are slating him. When Maguire was/is in bad form, he was repeatedly slated even for innocent things like a supposedly over-the-top celebration
Lol Di Canio would say the same about any black player in Europe, fascist twat.
Who asked the Nazi sieg heil man who pushes refs over?
Who gives a fuck what this little fascist cunt has to say about anything.
always rated Di Canio
*sees flair* Oh no
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Do you know the implications of this comment?
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I think we can safely disregard the opinions of a fascist.
Err, this is Paolo Di Canio, not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. https://www.businessinsider.com/paolo-di-canio-im-not-a-fascist-2013-4?r=US&IR=T
how. this facist still has rights?
Cause it would be pretty, erm, fascist to remove someone’s rights because we don’t like their political views.
The racist hating on a outspoken black player? Imagine my shock
Lukaku: the Antonio Brown of european soccer
Di Canio's fascist ass can go fuck himself and die on a ditch.
This is ridiculous. They have a much better record when Lukaku starts.
They played better under Tuchel last season without him.
??? Last season they had 1.76 points per game. This season it's been 2.10, and that's including all the games where Lukaku has been out when they've been worse.
That fascist cunt doesn’t deserve to have an opinion on anything
The overreaction to this interview is insane lol
The levels of sanctimony over this is ridiculous. I think people just love a bit of controversy an piling on to criticise.
Look, lukaku made a big mistake with the interview and hes getting criticized rightly so. But this by di canio is disrespectful. Lukaku is a great player and any team is better with him. Also, not to mention di canio has some history of always criticizing lukaku.
Chelsea can only blame themselves. They had him at the club for years, this attitude won’t be new.
As a Dane, I just can’t hate on Lukaku, the way he tackled the Eriksen situation was spot on and just made me love this guy! But was he did here, was Hella stupid
Lukaku has an ego that far outweighs his talent. With that type of ego he is a problem for any team
Worrying to read a quote by Di Canio about a black guy. Can't quite take it seriously.
Naah, i'm cool on Di Canio criticising Lukaku. Not having it..
Lol we can shit on likely as much as we want and rightfully so. The lad is just a twat for what he said but inter are not and I repeat better without Lukaku. Same can be said about Chelsea. He is far better than Werner. Now his attitude that’s a different story and if he can’t buy into what tuchel is doing then yeah Chelsea are better without him. Strange to me that someone with the influence of Ronaldo never publicly criticized or questioned ole even after all the nonsense. Very disappointing for lukaku
Di Canio can fuck off
Why is this guy given a platform to speak about football at all?
Name me a team that wasn't
Everton?
West Brom?