Lukaku set for move to Man Utd
Everton’s Belgian international striker Romelu Lukaku is
set to join Manchester United instead of champions Chelsea for a fee of £75
million ($97m, 85.5m euros), according to the British media.Both the BBC and
Press Association reported the deal was all but done for the 24-year-old
Lukaku, who will be reunited with Jose Mourinho, who sold him to Everton in
2014 for £28m when the Portuguese coach was in his second spell as Chelsea
manager.
Everton had offered the former Anderlecht star the most
lucrative contract in the club’s history after he scored 25 Premier League
goals last season but he turned it down, saying he wanted to move on to another
level.This alerted several clubs to his availability with Chelsea initially the
favourites but Mourinho — who enjoys excellent relations with his agent Mino
Raiola — looks to have snatched him from under Antoni Conte’s nose.If the deal
goes through Lukaku’s arrival at Old Trafford would suggest United cease their
interest in signing Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid.Raiola has had a profitable
time since Mourinho took over at United last year, with the world’s most
expensive player Paul Pogba, attacking midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Zlatan
Ibrahimovic, all his clients, arriving at the club in 2016.
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