{"id":17879,"date":"2026-05-28T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17879\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:24:11","slug":"we-need-thierry-henry-romelu-lukaku-reveals-belgium-players-wanted-ex-arsenal-striker-to-replace-roberto-martinez-as-he-lambasts-domenico-tedesco-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/17879\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We need Thierry Henry&#8217; &#8211; Romelu Lukaku reveals Belgium players wanted ex-Arsenal striker to replace Roberto Martinez as he lambasts Domenico Tedesco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lukaku was particularly vocal about the abrupt change in philosophy and atmosphere following the end of the Martinez era. Under the Spaniard, a golden generation enjoyed a prolonged period of dominance and high-scoring victories, highlighted by their historic run to the 2018 World Cup semi-finals. It is a level of confidence that Lukaku feels has been stripped away in the previous setup, with the stark contrast in dressing room vibe before games appearing to be a major point of contention for the nation&#8217;s all-time leading goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under Roberto Martinez, we would walk into the dressing room before a match and the question was: how many goals are we going to score today? I assure you, that is literally what we used to say,&#8221; Lukaku said. &#8220;Martinez would tell us where the spaces would open up, and we would win 3-0, 5-0, 8-1. Fast, sharp, just like that. You play like that for five years straight. And then, boom, clean slate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lukaku was particularly vocal about the abrupt change in philosophy and atmosphere following the end of the Martinez&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,11676,5837,11675,5395,11674,1849],"class_list":["post-17879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-d-tedesco","tag-r-lukaku","tag-r-martinez","tag-ssc-napoli","tag-t-henry","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116649595107036980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}