{"id":188152,"date":"2020-01-26T12:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=188152"},"modified":"2020-01-26T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T11:43:57","slug":"lukaku-reveals-conversation-with-solskjaer-before-leaving-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=188152","title":{"rendered":"Lukaku reveals conversation with Solskjaer before leaving Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Inter Milan striker, Romelu Lukaku, has insisted he made the right decision to leave Manchester United last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Lukaku joined United from Everton for \u00a375million in July 2017 scoring 42 goals in his two seasons at the club, before moving to Inter in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian has been in superb form for Antonio Conte\u2019s side, scoring 18 goals to help the club sustain a challenge for the Serie A title.<\/p>\n<p>Lukaku\u2019s current form and United\u2019s interest in signing a striker this month after Marcus Rashford\u2019s back injury, have raised questions as to the wisdom of allowing Lukaku to leave Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>But, in an interview with Sky Sports News, the 26-year-old said the decision was his and it had worked out well for United as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I had to re-find myself. Last year was difficult for me on the professional side because stuff was not going how I wanted and I was not performing as well\u2026 and I just came to the conclusion that it was time for me to change the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made my decision around March, and I went to the manager\u2019s office (Ole Gunnar Solskjaer) and I told him it was time for me to find something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I made the right decision and I think Manchester United now has made space for the younger players to come through so I think it was a bit of a win-win situation for both of us,\u201d Lukaku said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Milan striker, Romelu Lukaku, has insisted he made the right decision to leave Manchester United last summer. Lukaku joined United from Everton for \u00a375million in July 2017 scoring 42 goals in his two seasons at the club, before moving to Inter in August last year. The Belgian has been in superb form for Antonio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,10444,6440],"class_list":["post-188152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-intermilan","tag-romelu-lukaku"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}