Romelu Lukaku expects Chelsea boo-boys to target him but the Man United striker feels it is his destiny to score at his old club
The £75m striker snubbed a return to the Blues in favour of Old Trafford and is hungry to end his six-game run without a goal
ROMELU LUKAKU is expecting a barrage of boos at Chelsea today — but reckons it is his destiny to score.
The striker, who snubbed Blues in favour of a £75million summer move to Manchester United, is desperate to end his six-game run without a goal.
“Romelu knows he is going to get booed when he goes back to Stamford Bridge,” revealed a source close to the Belgian.
“He feels he has been unlucky not scoring recently. But he believes it is destiny that he will score against his old club.”
Lukaku, 24, has not netted in over a month after a blistering start at United with ten goals in his first nine games.
There will be no hiding place for Lukaku after today’s showdown.
He is staying in London with younger brother Jordan before joining up with the Belgium squad.
Chelsea sold Lukaku to Everton in 2014 and were favourites to sign him back in the summer.
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But United swooped with a deal boss Jose Mourinho insists was down to money and super-agent Mino Raiola.
Mourinho said: “We paid the money that Everton asked for and we paid the player the wages his agent asked for and we paid the agents the commission they asked for. That was the way.”
The FA published all agents’ deals from April 2015 to January 2017.
Chelsea did not use Raiola once while United used the middleman to land Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan in the period.
Nemanja Matic also returns to Chelsea for the first time since joining United in the summer.
Mourinho said: “I was surprised when his agent called me. But when he said, ‘You can have him if you want’ I said, ‘Of course I want’.”
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