‘Stay with them’: Chelsea fans can not believe the role Romelu Lukaku played in Man City’s latest signing

Belgian sensation Jeremy Doku came close to signing for Chelsea but only stopped after a video call with ironically Chelsea’s highest earner Romelu Lukaku.

Doku who joined Manchester City like Lukaku started his career in Anderlecht and was linked with a move to a lot of clubs but it was Chelsea who were seriously interested and came close to signing him on a number of occasions.

While still a youth player, a 15-year-old Doku attracted the interest of a number of Premier League clubs, including Chelsea.

The interest from Chelsea was intense and the club were finding it hard to get him to renew his contract but Lukaku stepped in and was convinced not to follow in his footsteps.

“I remember taking Romelu into my office about the problem of getting young players to commit to us – Doku in particular,” Kindermans told the Sunday Mirror. Romelu replied, ‘Come on, pass your phone to me, I’m going to call him’.

“But I didn’t want to do that because a phone call gets quickly forgotten. So, instead, I got Romelu to convince Jeremy to stay. I still have the video on my phone. On it, you can hear Romelu giving advice to the Doku family, saying ‘Hey, guys, stay with Anderlecht for a while, you’re good’ and so on.”

Lukau endured a frustrating time at Chelsea but finally took over when he went out on loan at Everton, he had mixed results at Manchester United before a stellar time at Inter Milan forced Chelsea to try one more time for him. He lasted just a season with eight league goals before going out on loan.