Romelu Lukaku is among the most criticised players at United. In fact, he’s never been fancied by the press. In Belgium, by his own admission, when he scores for the national team he’s a Belgian; when he has a bad game he’s a striker of African descent.
Lukaku told OTRO, Eric Cantona’s project, how he deals with it: ”I’m a religious person and God always tells us always to forgive. But I don’t forget. That’s why I don’t give media, some media, not my attention or even a look. I know sometimes I pay the price but I don’t care.”
He decries some British sources you’d all guess: ”Even one reporter said: thank God the mother of Romelu Lukaku didn’t have a third child. Can you imagine?! I’m not gonna kiss someone ass to be loved. It depends which newspaper, though. There is one newspaper which everybody reads that they’re like, you can say, ‘you are all racists’, you all know who you are.
The hate Lukaku and Sterling get is ridiculous ,everytime there is something negative to write about them.Some players get away with a lot https://t.co/7YnQmv1vo1 glad Lukaku does not give a damn about all that.Keep going lad and all the best for PSG.— Vinay kumar (@26_vinay) March 4, 2019
His life changed once he moved clubs in 2017: ”I remember my first game with Man Utd. We played Real Madrid in the Super Cup and I scored but we lost, and there was a chance that I missed. We played the next game against West Ham and I scored twice. Then the game after I scored again, and I scored again, and I scored again. But it was always ‘yes but…’, ‘yes but…”’
Rom’s resigned to the fact he pays the price for being a United player under scrutiny: ”I will never get my respect. That happened at Man Utd when I started, that’s when I knew ‘ah OK, whatever is going to happen, people are going to look at me with eyes like this’.”