Romelu Lukaku lodges first repayment

Romelu Lukaku offered echoes of another Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney as he marked his league debut for Jose Mourinho’s team with two clinical goals.

And that, in this brave new world of superinflated transfer fees and even more superinflated player egos, is what £90m (€99m) buys you.

Lukaku cost Jose Mourinho a basic £75m when moving from Everton this summer, with a further £15m to come in add-ons and, according to the selling club at least, Rooney estimated at another £10m as part of the transfer, going in the opposite direction.