‘Get him’: Chris Sutton backs Everton to re-sign 31-year-old star they sold in 2017

EVERTON SENT AN INTERESTING ROMELU LUKAKU TRANSFER MESSAGE AHEAD OF CHELSEA RETURN

Chris Sutton has told financial strugglers Everton to re-sign Romelu Lukaku this summer as he returns to Chelsea following his loan spell at Inter.

 

The 30-year-old donned the colors of Everton for a three-year period, scoring 87 goals from his 166 matches before he was sold to Manchester United in 2017.

Since then, the Toffees have just continued to decline, both on and off the field, but Sutton thinks Sean Dyche should now look to bring Romelu Lukaku back to Goodison Park, as he told 606 on BBC Radio 5 Live Sport.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin is the main man up top for Everton, but once again, the Englishman struggled with injuries and could only play 17 Premier League games last season.

Added to that, Neal Maupay, following his transfer from Brighton last summer, only scored one Premier League goal, as his team narrowly avoided relegation on the final day of the 2022/23 Premier League campaign.

It’s pretty obvious that the Merseyside club can’t go down that same road again, or else, they will get swallowed up, as Sutton told them to go and get Lukaku.

“If you are a top player and you want to play for a top club,” said Sutton. “Everton, a great history, which the club has, if you are a player looking at Everton for the last decade or so, but you would think that there are better options out there.

“Sean Dyche would have been thinking about this 24/7 about how to take that next step, with Calvert-Lewin, it’s so frustrating. We saw when he had a run toward the end of the season, the impact he can have. But Dyche can’t trust him. You have mentioned Maupay and it hasn’t happened for him. It doesn’t look like it will happen for him.

“Lukaku, go and get Lukaku. I have said Lukaku and I’ll say it again.”

Lukaku wants to leave Chelsea

After returning to Inter last summer, Lukaku had a mixed season, with injury, before the 2022 Qatar World Cup causing havoc on his form, both for club and country.

Things started to pick up after the turn of the year, including helping the Italian giants reach the Champions League final, but he wasn’t fit enough to start and he ended up missing a number of guilt-edge chances when he came on from the bench.

Nonetheless, Lukaku’s parent club is Chelsea, who have a big call to make on his future, but it seems as though he wants to leave Stamford Bridge, no matter what, this summer.