Romelu Lukaku

[Jase 43,479]

to be fair, the daily mail are consistently wrong

It wasn't just Daily Mail, even The Telegraph reported it.

[Diego Kwsta 96]

Well,if he really wants to stay and fight for his place thats fine.That only good will do to him and the team.

[termninja 5,290]

He should stay and compete. Besides he's young it's not like we can't sell him later on needed. He should at least be given a chance. We can send him on loan or sell even after the start of premier League since the transfer window is still open then.

[mufilika 101]

Couple of matches on the bench without a look-in and we'll hear "I have to start thinking about myself in January. I have a dozen clubs begging me to join them."

:D

[LAM09 7,043]

Steve Holland has said he is staying. I guess that's the end of that then.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2014/07/20/4970763/lukaku-set-to-stay-at-chelsea-says-steve-holland?ICID=HP_BN_8

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

Dharmesh Seth saying repeatedly on SSN that he will fight for his place. I cringed at the point in the discussion where he said 'Romelu seemingly pledging to Chelsea by changing his twitter bio to *Belgian International of Chelsea football club*'.

Best of luck fighting for your place big Rom! Hopefully you do more than change something on twitter in the coming months! :blue scalf:

[J.F. 1,484]

I'm confident if we sign Drogba as player/coach that he will talk with Lukaku about his decision to stay or go and convince him to fight for his place and stay with Chelsea, Lampard also signed new contract last year just before Mourinho become our manager, Mourinho again doing some smart moves.

[Jose M 140]

The fridge or big Rom will prove his worth this season. I always had faith Mourinho had plans for him. If he doesn't score more than 20 goals this season ill be very surprised.

[Tomo 21,751]

He didn't think he'd get a FAIR chance. how is scoring more goals than Torres and Ba in WBA the year before not deserving of a chance?

Not in isolation, if our basis for picking strikers are there better than Torres we might as well have left a written offer for Akinfenwa on the way out of Wimbledon.

[Chelsea? 892]

Not in isolation, if our basis for picking strikers are there better than Torres we might as well have left a written offer for Akinfenwa on the way out of Wimbledon.

your logic doesn't make any sense. If you have 2 players on your squad and one is better than the other, you play the better player. Lukaku believed he was better than Torres but he still didn't get to play over him. IMO that's considered not getting a fair chance. Morinho obviously saw more in Torres than in Lukaku, but you cant expect Lukaku to sit around and let Mourinho determine his career path.

I'm not saying he didn't get a fair chance cause i honestly dont know, just saying Lukaku probably didn't think he got a fair chance

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

The fridge or big Rom will prove his worth this season. I always had faith Mourinho had plans for him. If he doesn't score more than 20 goals this season ill be very surprised.

As much as I'm a fan of his, that seems quite impossible. Except when Costa gets injured for months or so, which I of course wouldn't wish on him...

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Rumour on Twitter :

Jose Mourinho has supposedly told Lukaku he will be second choice behind Costa next year and Lukaku seems happy to fight for a chance #CFC

[kellzfresh 7,229]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelseas-romelu-lukaku-transfer-hold-3885510?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Right decision IMO, at least now Lukaku and Jose can sit down together and have a proper man to man talk about what's going on with his situation. If they come to an agreement and both of them are happy for Lukaku to stay then that's great but if their relationship is still not good enough, he can always be sold later in the window and we'll still easily get around £20m for him so there's no hurry to sell him just yet.

If the end result is him going to Everton I'd perhaps even go as far as delay the transfer until deadline day because we'll be playing them at the Goodison near the end of August and it wouldn't be ideal to face him so soon.

Would be great if Jose speaks to him man to man and lukaku makes a realistic demand of making 40appearances and 15-20 starts, while making a realistic stake for a first choice place.

[Special Juan 28,123]

If this is the case and the Drogba stuff is true then it must mean Torres is off somewhere, possibly on loan.

[err 19]

I'm confident if we sign Drogba as player/coach that he will talk with Lukaku about his decision to stay or go and convince him to fight for his place and stay with Chelsea, Lampard also signed new contract last year just before Mourinho become our manager, Mourinho again doing some smart moves.

he should be able to convince him