ROMELU LUKAKU has posted a cryptic message on Snapchat just two months after slating Chelsea in a controversial interview.
The Belgian has been heavily criticised in recent weeks, but was back on the scoresheet as his side narrowly beat Al-Hilal on Wednesday.
Chelsea’s 1-0 triumph, however, doesn’t appear to have lifted his spirits.
On a plain black backdrop, Lukaku, 28, wrote: “If you have to force it, then it probably doesn’t fit.”
Sources close to the player insist that the message is ‘not football related’.
But given his previous Sky Italia interview, it has set tongues wagging.
Lukaku was dropped for a game in early January after his damning comments came to light.
He blasted boss Thomas Tuchel’s tactics, before admitting that leaving Inter Milan was a ‘mistake’.
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His strike on Wednesday was just his second goal since the comments, with the first having come against non-league Chesterfield.
Lukaku has bagged just five goals in 16 Premier League outings this term, since his injury-hit £97.5million switch back to Stamford Bridge.
Tuchel’s assistant Arno Michels claimed that the Blues picked Lukaku against League One Plymouth Argyle to try and get him going last weekend.
But the move backfired, with the striker lumbering against EFL defenders.
Lukaku is likely to start tomorrow as the Blues chase Club World Cup glory.
And he will be watched on by boss Tuchel, after the German recovered from Covid-19 in time to join his team in Abu Dhabi.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk