Mauricio Pochettino may soon be replacing Graham Potter as manager as Chelsea but he'll be backing his predecessor's decision over striker Romelu Lukaku.
The Belgian striker returned to the club in August 2021 after signing from Inter Milan for a £97.5 million fee, but underwhelmed under Thomas Tuchel. After scoring just eight times in the Premier League, and then falling out with the German boss, he was shipped back to Inter on loan, having previously irked fans at Stamford Bridge by publicly expressing how much he missed life at the San Siro.
But letting Lukaku now seemingly appeared a farcical decision from the club after Tuchel was sacked, with Potter then coming in and promptly casting aside Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. It left the club without a recognised striker for the bulk of the season, a notion all too evident in their recent Champions League exit at the hands of Real Madrid.