Romelu Lukaku needs to be saved as soon as possible! A club needs to come clear and buy this dude before he becomes the forgotten man of football. His confidence is hit and it doesn't look like he will recover at Chelsea again. Brought in against Madrid he was presented with two very good chances. The Lukaku of old will score one of those two headed chances. Benzema had scored two headed chances of his own that match. Instead Lukaku wasted both chances. Yesterday, he had a chance to score from few yards out. He smashed the ball against the post. The fact that the much maligned Werner now plays ahead of him says the whole story. A £97M acquisition with a weekly wage of £325,000 will be very difficult to shift especially when you consider he is on a five year contract. At Inter he was earning way less at £142,000 weekly. Any club that wants him now won't pay more than £150,000 which is less than half his current wages. He's 29 years old now and will struggle to find any team close to matching his mammoth wage. If he is to leave he will need to agree to a massive pay cut. Chelsea will definitely want to recoup some of the £97M they paid for his services also which makes a complicated deal already. In all, I believe this guy has to leave Chelsea this summer. He's lost his way but football can be funny though. He may just stay and become the goal scoring menace he once was, battling, bruising, bullying and brutalizing everything on his way to scoring goals. We've seen worse players getting revived before!
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Just like you said, football could be funny at times. I also believe he would eventually come good at Chelsea. I don't think Drogba hit the ground running immediately when he was signed.
Drogba was 24 years old, didn't cost £97M, and wasn't on a £325,000 wages at Chelsea. And yes, Drogba never had an interview where he said he wanted to leave for another club thereby criticizing the manager. Lukaku hung himself up for public criticism with his silly interview. Drogba was never under the pressure Lukaku is. Drogba was a nobody when Chelsea signed him compared to when they signed Lukaku from Inter. Lukaku can still turn it around though but the chance is very slim.
Totally agree with this. He set himself up for this.
Another ridiculously high wage for a player whose performace does not worth it. He can hardly move anywhere without pay cut. Chelsea can just hope for his come-back while the paycheck does not have any discount, and I doubt the lost-motivation will play at his full ability.
Even the previously free spending Chinese clubs won't pay him that much. Looks like Inter wants him back. They surely won't pay him more than the £142,000 he was earning before Chelsea came calling.