IS ROMELU LUKAKU TRULY WORTH THE ASKING FEE? - Soccer EYE

Thursday, July 6, 2017

IS ROMELU LUKAKU TRULY WORTH THE ASKING FEE?

Here is a brief stats of the most sort after premier league striker this season.

Chelsea former striker and present summer target is reportedly joining Manchester united in few days time after the richest football club in the world agreed to pay Everton's asking price of £75m for the striker.

The striker ended the 2016/2017 season with 25 league goals for Everton, making him the second top scorer of the league for that season.

He is one of only five players to score 50 Premier League goals before his 23rd
birthday, and the first foreign player to score 80 before his 24th birthday.

On 12 2015 December, Lukaku became the first Everton player to score in six consecutive Premier League matches, and the first to score in seven consecutive matches in all competitions since Bob Latchford 40 years previously when he opened the scoring in the Toffees' 1–1 draw with Norwich City at Carrow Road .
In his next game, a 3–2 defeat to
Leicester City , Lukaku became the first Everton player since Dave Hickson in 1954 to score in 8 consecutive games.

Lukaku scored his first goals of 2016/2017 season which was a hat-trick against Sunderland on 12 september 2016 at the stadium of light. His performance in that match earned him
the 12th quickest hat-trick in the premier league history as his goals were scored in 11 minutes 36 seconds.

A goal in a 3–1 win for Everton against Burnley F.C.
on the 15 April meant that Lukaku was the first Everton player since Bob Latchford to score 25 goals in two consecutive seasons in all competitions, and the first player since the legendary Dixie Dean to score in nine consecutive matches at Goodison Park .

On 20 April 2017, Lukaku was named in the PFA Team of the Year for the first time. He was also included in the six player shortlists for the PFA Player of the Year and PFA Young Player of the Year
awards.

Do you see him showing such brilliant performance for Manchester united if He is eventually signed into to team?

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