Lukaku’s fight to become a Mourinho untouchable

Manchester United’s Romelu Lukaku returns to Stamford Bridge tomorrow, where his Chelsea dream was effectively ended by the impossibility of competing with Jose Mourinho’s ‘untouchables’, with every right to believe that the tables have now been well and truly turned.

Lukaku, sold in 2014 to Everton after failing to score a single goal in Chelsea blue, will stand in front of the Shed End as the most expensive striker in British football

history, with 16 goals for club and country already this season and, most importantly, having finally persuaded Mourinho he belongs in the elite group of first-choice heroes he once found it so impossible to break into.