Belgium boss Roberto Martinez has suggested out-of-favour striker Romelu Lukaku may additionally need to depart Chelsea with the World Cup in Qatar on the horizon. Chelsea forked out a club-record fee that become reported to be £97.5million (€115m) to take Lukaku again to Stamford Bridge from Inter ultimate August.
Lukaku's 2d spell with Chelsea has no longer long gone to devise up to now, even though, and the 28-yr-antique did no longer do himself any favours with the aid of telling Sky Sport Italia that he was sad along with his situation with the European champions after losing his area in the side. The former Everton and Manchester United frontman remains out of favour, having scored most effective 12 goals in 35 appearances this season under Thomas Tuchel.
Martinez hinted that the Red Devils' all-time main scorer might also should searching for pastures new if he is unable to pressure his way returned into the Blues facet, so he is firing on all cylinders in Qatar later this 12 months. "We are speaking approximately players, like Romelu, who have were given over 100 caps and are a part of this institution of gamers who recognise the national group interior out," the Spaniard advised The Sun. "I'm now not going to choose or determine the situation of any player until after the summer because it isn't always a everyday situation."
"It continues to be seven months to the World Cup and probably you will go into the information of ways a player feels while it gets towards it than now. But there will be a number of players who alternate golf equipment or are going to feel in a distinctive manner inside the summer. Romelu wishes to be assessed on how he feels in September, the equal manner Eden Hazard does and a few others. But he is one of the players for whom the summer season might be a massive second for his or her careers."
Martinez, however, says Lukaku is prepared to combat for his area in Tuchel's group. He added: "We continually communicate. I actually have a completely near courting with all my players. I could by no means tell a player what to do but we always percentage mind. At the moment Romelu is in a great place. He is so committed. He become delighted to win the Club World Cup and the next step is to complete the season strong with Chelsea and ensure he can feel very critical."
