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Speaking on NBA player’s Josh Hart’s LightHarted Podcast, Romelu Lukaku has opened up on his departure from Manchester United this summer.
What did he say?
The Belgium international was involved in a drawn-out saga and eventually completed his move to Serie A giants Inter on deadline day.
Now, in an episode recorded before he made his exit, Lukaku slammed United for the role they played in moving him on from Old Trafford.
He said: “A lot of stuff has been said where I didn’t feel protected. I felt like a lot of rumours, ‘Rom going there’, ‘they don’t want Rom’, and nobody came out to shut it down.
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“It was for a good three, four weeks. I’m waiting for someone to come out and shut it down. It didn’t happen. I had my conversation, told them it was better to go our separate ways. If you don’t want to protect somebody, all these rumours come out. I just wanted you to say ‘Rom is going to fight for his place’, but it never happened for four, five months.
“It was all, ‘he’s got to go, he doesn’t deserve to be there’. Well OK, then I want to go now. There is fighting for your position, but also being somewhere that people want you to be. I told them it’s not good for me to be at a place where I’m not wanted. We’re not stupid. They consider us dumb, but we are not dumb, we know who is doing leaks and stuff. I told them, you can’t be working like this, it’s better for me to go now.”
Fireworks
Talk about an acrimonious exit. In an explosive interview, Lukaku’s revelation about his side of the story this summer paints a picture of United that is seriously questionable. If the Red Devils did indeed want to offload the Belgian this summer, then that should have been communicated at least with the player himself.
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Trying to drive a hard bargain by not confirming the rumours is entirely understandable from a financial point of view. But allowing Lukaku to simply sit on the side-lines and listen to reports and rumours about his future without really knowing the entire situation smacks of poor management.
In the end, it appears all parties got what they wanted. But the nature of how that conclusion came about is certainly bound to create great controversy and debate over the coming weeks and months.
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