Everton 2-0 Chelsea: 6 Things We Learned

6. Selling Romelu Lukaku Is One Of Jose Mourinho€™s Biggest Mistakes

With 25 goals to his name this term, Lukaku is well on the way to becoming world class - and ex-Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho€™s unwillingness to persist with his former charge goes down as one of his greatest mistakes. This was the day when the Belgian came back to haunt Chelsea, and there isn€™t a Blues fan out there who€™d deny that selling him on was an error of judgement. After four games of misfiring against his former club, he netted a brace against them in just 286 seconds. And in those 286 seconds, Guus Hiddink€™s chance of salvaging anything from a turbulent season went up in smoke. How different things could have been if they had a player like Lukaku on their books to support their title defence - Mourinho might still be in a job. To say this would solve all of their problems may be reductionist, but it doesn€™t take a master statistician to point out that a 25-goal haul does your season the power of good.
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