On Friday last week, The Blues were preparing for a homes clash against Southampton to redeem themselves after a disappointing loss to Basel in the midweek UCL game. It was then when on-loan teenage striker Romelu Lukaku made arguably the most controversial comments in his Chelsea career to date. In a strong message directed at Mourinho, the Belgian said he was surplus to requirements at the Bridge and claimed who might make his Everton move permanent should they finish in the top four.

Here is the quote from Lukaku- “It’s a bit strange at the minute, the last time I heard from [Chelsea] was a couple of months ago. It was not the fact that I was not wanted, I was wanted but I had to make a decision for myself,” Lukaku added.

“I had to analyse what the best was for me. Imagine if I was playing Chelsea now, I would play maybe five games maybe score one or two goals. Look now I’m playing for Everton, I’ve played eight games and scored seven goals. Everybody in England is talking about me about my performances and as a player I’m improving, I’m having that certain consistency in my game.”

And in reply to that Message from Lukaku, Jose Mourinho responded rather angrily by reminding why the striker had to leave Stamford bridge and play at Everton.

Replying to those comments, Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho said on Friday: “Romelu likes to speak. He’s a young boy. But the only thing that he didn’t say is why he went to Everton on loan. My last contact with him was to tell him exactly that.
‘Why you never say why you are not here?’ It’s something that he should say, because he likes to speak, the reason why he is not with Chelsea and he is in Everton.”

This classy response from Jose surely has delivered a strong message to the player and reminded him that he is still the unfinished product in-terms of being one of the best strikers in the world and succeed at the club his idol Didier Drogba dominated at for 8 years at Stamford Bridge.

We can say Lukaku is still immature in the way he has to deal with the media when such things are concerned. But, he surely will learn from making stupid claims in media exposing a situation that should have stayed between him and the club manager Jose. Mou’s response goes not only to Lukaku but also for other players on-loan impressing. The likes of Thibaut Courtois.

The message is there is a big reasons they aren’t at Stamford Bridge helping the team and that’s because they may not be ready or the situation of the squad isn’t comfortable for them to grow as fast as possible as players while also helping the team. It’s easy to understand the ambition of the club and targets at Chelsea aren’t in no way compared to that of Athletico Madrid let alone Everton.

So, it will be wise for the youngsters to keep their feet on the ground and do the talking on the pitch. In this case for Lukaku, keep scoring goals for Everton and keep impressing. Show the improvements Jose wants to see and earn a spot at the Bridge for the next term. Here additional quotes from Jose in the latest press-conference before the Sunderland game: “Maybe there is a new rule in football where when the season finishes every player is able to decide their own future.”

That was when he was asked about the comments from the past week yet again by journalists. Thanks for reading and please make sure to sound of your opinions below on what you think. Follow me on twitter (@FahmiCFC)