{"id":466050,"date":"2011-07-22T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/22\/%e2%80%98romelu-lukaku-was-magnificent-last-season-but-we-have-enough-forwards%e2%80%99-chelsea-boss-andre-villas-boas-suggests-failure-to-land-belgian-would\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T09:44:00","slug":"romelu-lukaku-was-magnificent-last-season-but-we-have-enough-forwards-chelsea-boss-andre-villas-boas-suggests-failure-to-land-belgian-would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/22\/romelu-lukaku-was-magnificent-last-season-but-we-have-enough-forwards-chelsea-boss-andre-villas-boas-suggests-failure-to-land-belgian-would\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Romelu Lukaku was magnificent last season but we have enough forwards\u2019 &#8211; Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas suggests failure to land Belgian would&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"69.5031847134\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> boss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/portugal\/43211\/andr%C3%A9-villas-boas\">Andre Villas-Boas<\/a> has suggested he does not need any further striking options at the club, despite speculation linking the west Londoners with a bid for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/belgium\/36519\/romelo-lukaku\">Romelu Lukaku<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reports emerged this week that the Blues had made an offer for the \u00a320 million-rated Belgium international, who scored 16 goals last season for Anderlecht and has been likened to Didier Drogba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Villas-Boas has noted that with an abundance of options such as Fernando Torres, Daniel Sturridge, Salomon Kalou, Nicolas Anelka and Drogba already at Stamford Bridge, a move for Lukaku may not be necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking to reporters, the Portuguese boss said: &#8220;Lukaku had a magnificent season in Belgium. We are pondering every decision because we don&#8217;t want to go into the market and make mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We have plenty of availability in terms of forwards who can play in different positions &#8211; with Anelka, with Kalou, Didier, Torres and Sturridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This is the reality at the moment of our squad. 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But Villas-Boas has noted that with an abundance of options such as Fernando Torres, Daniel Sturridge, Salomon Kalou, Nicolas Anelka and Drogba already at Stamford Bridge, a move for Lukaku may not be necessary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Romelu Lukaku was magnificent last season but we have enough forwards\u2019 - Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas suggests failure to land Belgian would... - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/22\/romelu-lukaku-was-magnificent-last-season-but-we-have-enough-forwards-chelsea-boss-andre-villas-boas-suggests-failure-to-land-belgian-would\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018Romelu Lukaku was magnificent last season but we have enough forwards\u2019 - Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas suggests failure to land Belgian would... - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas has suggested he does not need any further striking options at the club, despite speculation linking the west Londoners with a bid for Romelu Lukaku . 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