Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Ince has questioned his old club’s decision to sell striker Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan last summer.
Lukaku moved to the San Siro in 2019 and scored 34 goals in his debut season with Inter.
The Belgian’s opening goal against Sevilla in the Europa League final on Friday saw him match Ronaldo’s record for the most number of goals scored in a debut season for Inter, set during the 1997/98 season.
As well as that, the goal extended his scoring streak in Europa League matches to 11 successive games.
In Lukaku’s last season for United, he scored 15 goals for the club before being deemed surplus to requirements at Old Trafford. A year on, Ince believes United made a mistake by letting the 27-year-old leave the club.
Ince said on BT Sport: “No, I don’t think he would be (scoring that amount of goals for United).
“He’s with a different manager, I think what Conte’s got out of him is a lot more than what (Jose) Mourinho, or Ole (Gunnar Solskjaer) got out of him at Manchester United.
“He looks fitter, he looks stronger, he looks at it. The goal there where he bursts past the player, you wouldn’t see that at Old Trafford.
“Has it (selling Lukaku) benefited Man United? I don’t think so, because they still need a man. If you go back to the game against Sevilla where they couldn’t score, they need someone to put the ball in the back of the net.
“When you see Lukaku do that, you start thinking why did we let him go?”
