Cap Town - With his seemingly impending move to Italy, Romelu Lukaku will go down as one of the most prolific goalscorers during his time in the Premier League.
Both Milan clubs have shown interest in Belgium's highest ever goalscorer with Juventus believed to be leading the race by offering a swap deal including Paulo Dybala.
Here are Big Rom's stats during his time in the Premier League:
- Since joining the Premier League in 2011-12, Romelu Lukaku has proven himself to be one of the league’s most reliable marksmen – he is one of only two players to have scored at least 10 Premier League goals in the last seven seasons, along with Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero, and has scored 113 goals in 252 appearances:
Season Team Appearances Goals Assists Goal Involvements
Season 2011/2012 Chelsea 8 0 1 1
Season 2012/2013 West Bromwich Albion 35 17 4 21
Season 2013/2014 Chelsea/Everton 33 15 6 21
Season 2014/2015 Everton 36 10 5 15
Season 2015/2016 Everton 37 18 6 24
Season 2016/2017 Everton 37 25 6 31
Season 2017/2018 Manchester United 34 16 7 23
Season 2018/2019 Manchester United 32 12 0 12 Total 252 113 35 148
- Lukaku debuted in the Premier League on August 27th 2011 for Chelsea; since that date, he is one of only three players to have scored 100 goals in the division, along with Sergio Agüero and Harry Kane:
Premier League Since August 27th 2011 Goals
Sergio Agüero 162
Harry Kane 125
Romelu Lukaku 113
Wayne Rooney 89
Eden Hazard 85
Jamie Vardy 80
Robin van Persie 78
Olivier Giroud 78
Christian Benteke 70
Sadio Mané 66
Raheem Sterling 66
- Lukaku enjoyed his best Premier League campaign for scoring in 2016-17 and was included in the Premier League Team of the Year, netting 25 times for Everton – the most by a Toffees player in a single league campaign since Gary Lineker scored 30 times in 1985-86; the Belgian is Everton’s record Premier League scorer, scoring 68 times between 2013 and 2017:
Everton - Top Premier League Scorers Goals
Romelu Lukaku 68
Duncan Ferguson 60
Tim Cahill 56
Kevin Campbell 45
Leon Osman 44
Lukaku at Manchester United:
- In his time at the club, Lukaku scored 16 goals more than any other Man Utd player:
Manchester United - All Competitions since 2017-18 Goals
Romelu Lukaku 42
Marcus Rashford 26
Anthony Martial 23
Paul Pogba 22
Jesse Lingard 18