{"id":95274,"date":"2023-10-30T00:26:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stopsmokingway.com\/?p=95274"},"modified":"2023-10-30T00:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T00:26:13","slug":"joe-cole-blasts-chelsea-for-letting-lukaku-leave-on-loan-to-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopsmokingway.com\/soccer\/joe-cole-blasts-chelsea-for-letting-lukaku-leave-on-loan-to-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Cole BLASTS Chelsea for letting Lukaku leave on loan to Roma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Joe Cole BLASTS Chelsea for letting Romelu Lukaku leave on loan to Roma and says there is &#8216;something fundamentally wrong&#8217; at the club amid their scoring woes<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Romelu Lukaku has been in shining form at Roma, with eight goals in ten games<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Joe Cole questioned why the club let him go and said something is &#8216;wrong&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Follow Mail Sport&#8217;s new Chelsea WhatsApp channel for all the breaking news<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Cole has been deeply critical of former club\u00a0Chelsea for allowing Romelu Lukaku to leave on loan to Roma as they continue to draw blanks in front of goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Blues lost 2-0 at home to Brentford\u00a0on Saturday and it was the fourth time this season that they have failed to find the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have scored just 13 goals in the Premier League &#8211; the joint-11th-best record, level with Wolves &#8211; while Lukaku already has eight in ten games at Roma.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Christopher Nkunku&#8217;s pre-season injury is a mitigating factor in their relative lack of threat, Chelsea look like up front with Nicolas Jackson their only out-and-out striker available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;With Romelu Lukaku, for all of his faults, he was in the door,&#8217; Cole told TNT Sports.\u00a0 &#8216;He was a success at Inter Milan, he scored goals at Everton and West Brom in this country, why couldn&#8217;t he score goals at Chelsea? What was wrong [with him]?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/29\/11\/77139525-0-JJoe_Cole_says_smething-a-50_1698579084521.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Joe Cole said &#8216;something is fundamentally wrong&#8217; at Chelsea amid their scoring woes and questioned why they let Romelu Lukaku leave on loan again\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/29\/11\/77139407-0-image-a-51_1698579128340.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lukaku has been in scintillating form in Italy, scoring eight goals in ten outings for Roma<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He is scoring goals now for Roma. So we have to look within ourselves, what is wrong with this club at the moment?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t blame the manager one bit. Him and his staff are doing everything they can and I don&#8217;t even blame the players. They are all top players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The squad is unbalanced, but there is something wrong fundamentally with the club at the moment.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You here all the buzz words around the club but at the end of the day, we can&#8217;t score goals.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In fairness to Chelsea, Lukaku was always going to be a hot potato to handle this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was desperate to force a move back to Inter Milan, where he reached the Champions League final on loan last season, and reportedly refused to turn up to training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even when he did, he was made to train with the U21s\u00a0as he had fallen out of favour at Stamford Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were talks with Juventus over a deal involving \u00a338.5million plus Dusan Vlahovic\u00a0but that never went ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Juventus fans stormed the pitch in a training match and protested outside the club&#8217;s medical centre\u00a0about their pursuit of Lukaku.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/29\/11\/77139593-0-image-a-52_1698579217136.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>While Lukaku has been a consistent goalscorer throughout his career, he has a sour relationship with Chelsea<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/29\/11\/77139513-0-image-a-53_1698579244490.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In Italy, he has been revitalised at Roma and Inter Milan, where he reached the Champions League final last season<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/29\/11\/77139519-0-image-a-54_1698579273063.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lukaku has a &#8216;special relationship&#8217; with Jose Mourinho, who has managed him in the past<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/29\/11\/77139667-0-image-a-55_1698579341560.jpg\" height=\"446\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino made Lukaku train with the Chelsea U21s over the summer<\/p>\n<p>It has worked out for him at Roma, where he is managed by Jose Mourinho, his former boss at Chelsea and Manchester United who he admits he has a &#8216;special relationship&#8217; with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On his form under the Portuguese boss, he said: &#8216;As I\u2019ve said in the past, he and I have a special relationship. He knows me and my children,&#8217; said the Roma striker. &#8216;He\u2019s someone I can trust, and he puts his trust in me. He\u2019s tough, but that\u2019s the only way that I can grow.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to say whether his form with the Giallorossi represents what he would have done had he stayed at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>An explosive interview with Sky Sport Italia in December 2021, in which he said he was &#8216;not happy&#8217; at Chelsea, led to him falling out with Thomas Tuchel and is seen as a pivotal moment that soured relations between him and the club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12685359\/Joe-Cole-BLASTS-Chelsea-letting-Romelu-Lukaku-leave-loan-Roma-says-fundamentally-wrong-club-amid-scoring-woes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Cole BLASTS Chelsea for letting Romelu Lukaku leave on loan to Roma and says there is &#8216;something fundamentally wrong&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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