Romelu Lukaku admits he was thinking about leaving Manchester United almost immediately after his Premier League debut for the club.
The Belgium striker joined the Red Devils from Everton for £75million in 2017 but he spent only two years at Old Trafford before moving on to Inter Milan last summer.
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Lukaku struggled to establish himself in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s XI but the centre-forward believes he and Paul Pogba were being made scapegoats for United’s decline.
Speaking to the New York Times, Lukaku has opened up over his United exit.
“I took him [Pogba] aside and told him I was done with Manchester United. There was a feeling that Pogba and I were guilty of the fall of Manchester United.
“From the beginning it was a ‘Yes, but…’. I scored in the European Super Cup and they said, ‘Yes, but he got another one wrong’.
“When I first started out in the Premier League, I scored against West Ham and they said, ‘Yeah, but…’. Since then I imagined how it would feel to leave the club. One year at United erases the previous eight.”
“Since March I had made the decision to start from scratch, to rebuild my reputation. I said to myself: ‘The Premier was good for me, but I had to leave’. Italian? It took me 2 or 3 weeks of hard work to learn it. Now nobody speaks English to me anymore.”