Anderlecht’s academy director Jean Kindermans, has revealed how Romelu Lukaku prevented Manchester City winger Jeremy Doku from joining Chelsea.
Doku moved to Pep Guardiola’s side in the closing stages of the summer transfer window.
He joined the Cityzens from Ligue 1 side Rennes in a £55.5 million deal.
Chelsea wanted to sign the 21-year-old during his time as an academy player at Anderlecht.
Kindermans revealed that he enlisted the help of Lukaku to stop Chelsea’s advances.
“I remember taking Romelu into my office about the problem of getting young players to commit to us, Doku in particular,” Kindermans told the Sunday Mirror.
“Romelu replied, ‘Come on, pass your phone to me, I’m going to call him’.
“But I didn’t want to do that because a phone call gets quickly forgotten. So, instead, I got Romelu to convince Jeremy to stay.
“I still have the video on my phone. On it, you can hear Romelu giving advice to the Doku family, saying, ‘Hey, guys, stay with Anderlecht for a while, you’re good’, and so on.”
