Lukaku joined United last summer despite being reportedly close to a move to Chelsea, but all that wouldn’t have happened as he was set to sign a new contract at Everton worth in the region of £140,000 per week, but suddenly backtracked last March and told the club he wanted to leave in the summer.
And now Moshiri, Everton's major shareholder, gave a remarkable insight at the club's annual AGM into why Lukaku performed an about-turn after receiving advice.
"If I tell you what we offered him you wouldn't believe it but they offered him a better deal,” said Moshiri as quoted by the Daily Mail, during a night on which it emerged that the project for Everton's proposed new stadium at Bramley Dock on the banks of the River Mersey will cost £500m.
“His agent came to the training ground and was about to sign and the player was on a pilgrimage in Africa and he had a voodoo or something and he had to sign for Chelsea.
“The issue with Romelu was not financial. As long as I am major shareholder financial issues are irrelevant. I wasted two summers to keep him: first summer with his agent, him and his family we managed to keep him.
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