Romelu Lukaku: Everton striker rejects new contract at Goodison Park

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Everton striker Romelu Lukaku has turned down the most lucrative contract offer in the club's history.
The Premier League club had been confident the Belgium international would sign a new five-year deal thought to be worth around £140,000 a week.
The 23-year-old's agent, Mino Raiola, had said his client was "99.9%" certain to extend his stay at Goodison Park.
However, Lukaku has told the Toffees he currently has no desire to extend a contract that has two years to run.
Lukaku has made no secret of his desire to play in the Champions League and has been linked with a return to former club Chelsea, from whom he joined Everton for £28m in 2014.
Everton's contract offer remains on the table and still hope further negotiations could end in an agreement.
For now, however, Lukaku is not willing to agree terms and the Toffees would demand a fee in excess of £60m for a player who has scored 19 goals this season.
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It was never intended as a way for younger better players to hold clubs to ransom for extortionate wages or to orchestrate a transfer under their terms.
Sorting out the stadium at Bramley Dock is far more important.
However, this nonsense that good players have to go to clubs that are 'guaranteed' champions league is so wrong, and reduces real competition in the premiership.
Clubs must aspire to getting higher in the league and fans expect it. Lukaku should see himself as part of thr solution to giving Everton that chance.
That would be all.
Everton should be able to hold out for roughly 200m after watching what 89m buys you these days.
"Liverpool should swap Sturridge for Lukaku"
Do you mean swap Sturridge, £60m and a team of doctors and physios to help Sturridge stay fit for more than 1 month for Lukaku?
The players have far too much power and are far too removed from the fanbase of most clubs.
At times i wonder why we support our local clubs. The only thing local about them now appears to be the location of the stadium. Gaelic football has the right idea
I get the feeling that if he leaves,Everton will get the better of the deal. He's already been at Chelsea and couldn't hack it,so what makes him think he could do better than Everton now?
If it wasn't for Everton giving him a chance, he'd be nothing. Talk about ungrateful