da dobrowin： Everton fans can breathe a huge sigh of relief as Romelu Lukaku will be staying at Goodison Park for the immediate future, but there is still ultimately the question of whether the club can match the lofty ambitions held by the Belgian interational.
da bet nacional： Manager Ronald Koeman went on record after their win away at West Brom on Saturday, saying that Lukaku will be staying for ‘at least one more season’, and that there is also a possibility of a new contract for the Everton hitman, but it doesn’t mean Everton fans should be reaching for the champagne just yet.
A new contract would protect Everton’s investment in their most precious asset and then would also allow them to cash in should Lukaku decide in twelve months’ time that he would like to bring his time on Merseyside to an end. It also means that this season is not only going to be incredibly important for Everton but for Lukaku too.
Everton will need to be competing for a European place – and will probably have to actually earn one – if they are to have any chance of keeping Lukaku at the club beyond the end of this campaign. It’s also the case that Lukaku is going to have to have another decent season in terms of goals if he is to still be admired by some of Europe’s top clubs.
You do also get the feeling that he is prepared to stay at Everton for at least this season due to the fact that no one actually came in with a contract bid for the former Chelsea man. His former employers themselves did seem to be the most interested, but even they appeared to have been scared off by the £75m asking price that has been quoted.
For all of Lukaku’s supposed posturing for a move away, there was never really anything in the way of a real demand to leave. When you add that to the lack of any bid that matched Everton’s valuation of the player, it seems apparent that Lukaku wasn’t going to be leaving Goodison this summer.
Everton managed to hold firm over the course of the window so far, and in doing so, they have managed to keep hold of the man who has registered 43 Premier League goals in 104 appearances. That will have been a huge boost for Ronald Koeman as it would have been nearly impossible to replace him with such little time of the transfer window left.
It’s as if this arrangement is one that suits all parties. If Everton are successful thanks to Lukaku’s goals then the likelihood of him staying on further increases, if Everton underachieve but Lukaku still finds the net on a regular basis then it very much puts him in the shop window for this time next year.
So the club and player have almost got a marriage of conveience for the next year: Everton fans can celebrate in the short to medium term but they may have to get ready to go through the whole scenario again next summer. But for now they won’t be worrying about that and will hope Lukaku can fire them to success over the course of the campaign.
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