Joe Cole: Chelsea are right to go for Lukaku

Former Chelsea star Joe Cole has thrown his weight behind the club's bid to bring Romelu Lukaku back to Stamford Bridge from Everton. Chelsea are currently lock in talks with Everton for the £100m rated Belgium forward. Joe Cole said Chelsea are right to go after the hitman, who scored 24 English Premier League goals last season.


"Obviously the Costa thing has come out. Conte has told him that he wants him out so you would be looking at a striker," Cole told Goal at Tampa's Contemporary and Modern Art Museum.

"Lukaku, there’s a market for him, and you are competing for players. I like Lukaku. I’d take Lukaku, he is like for like with Costa, but they only need one or two players and just keep the continuity going.

"I don’t know his character so it is hard to say [whether the comeback could affect him], but I would say is that the pressure is different when you play for Chelsea, rather than Everton. He is younger [than Costa], that’s in his favour."

"Sergio Aguero is in his prime, Alexis Sanchez is in his prime," Cole continued. "I think one of them three could be enough to make sure Chelsea are not weakened and maybe strengthened a little bit as well. The club will have to do their due diligence on the characters as well.

"The financial structure of it and the cost... I wouldn’t look outside of Lukaku, Sanchez and Aguero. [Alvaro] Morata is another one but he has never played in England so there is a little question mark there. Certainly they would be the players to look at."

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