Everton are not only about to pull off one of the coups of the season, but also of the club's entire history, as they close in on the eye-wateringly (but reassuringly) expensive capture of Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea. With confirmation expected in the next few hours, the player has taken to social media to tweet out a picture of him on board a plane - reportedly headed for Merseyside - carrying the caption "Time to write a new chapter...." That new chapter will cost Roberto Martinez's traditionally frugal team around £24m, earning Chelsea a £5m mark-up on a player they've never given a chance to, and who was unthinkably not deemed of a sufficient quality to actually play for them. The finances of the football world continue to baffle. The move was not unexpected, as the Chelse club shop has stopped fans from buying shirts with Lukaku on the back - though for some reason, the same can be said of Courtois shirts - and Lukaku's social media activity seems the final confirmation before the confirmation. But Lukaku is definitely a £24m striker - even if he should be plying his trade as competition for Diego Costa at Chelsea and not elsewhere - having scored an incredible 65 league goals at the age of 21 (which puts him on the same level as Sergio Aguero and better than Lionel Messi in those terms), and Everton will definitely benefit from one of the most exciting talents in European football, who seems to have become an unfortunate casualty of Jose Mourinho's ego. Yes, he might come with expectations of a big mouth and an inflated sense of self, but he is a striker, and any talented striker who does not believe their own hype and does not believe that they will score every time they play is missing something from their game. It's one thing when Nicklas Bendtner claims he's the best in the world, of course, but Lukaku's swagger is completely well placed, and if he scores 25 goals a season for the Toffees and makes them a continued threat to the top four, he will be worth the price tag and significantly more. It's a good time to be an Everton fan, with Roberto Martinez in charge, and though some will suggest Lukaku is making a step down from Chelsea, there is no reason that the Belgian cannot fire his new side into direct competition with the Londoners. They don't have a proven Premier League scorer (other than Didier Drogba) and have made a monumental mistake in letting Lukaku go, and there will be a lot of fans - and not just on Merseyside - that hope their error comes back to bite them.
