Mourinho is right - £75m goal-machine Lukaku is a bargain

Published on September 13 2017 by Olayiwola Ola-Stanislaw

Manchester United returned to Champions League football after a 21-month inconsistencies on Tuesday night, and by full-time it felt a bit like they'd never been away.

Romelu Lukaku has a long way to go before his European exploits can be compared with some of United's great front men, but the Belgian marked his Champions League debut with a crucial goal and a very convincing individual performance leading the line.

Morinho said, “I think we were very clever,” Mourinho told The Times . “We thought that something could happen that could change the market forever. Normally the last part of the market is less expensive, but this season after Neymar everything changed – and changed for the worse in terms of prices. I think Lukaku on August 31 would have been £150m.”