Five important decisions Mourinho must make this pre-season

Romelu Lukaku

A massive hit with West Brom in the Premier League last season, surely Romelu Lukaku has done enough and proven to Chelsea that he MUST remain with us to play an important role this season!

I like the idea of rotating Fernando Torres and Romelu Lukaku depending on the opposition and the threat we want to pose them in each game.

Chelsea’s biggest problem until the January window last term was they had no options to mix up our play up front and we missed the presence of a big man up top to change our play.

Fernando Torres is somewhere near his best and as we all know likes to play on the shoulder of the last defender for balls in between defenders or over the top. He isn’t someone that can be physical and hold the ball up when we need him to, to bring other players into play.

Lukaku is the opposite. We have all seen exactly what he can do at West Brom. He is all about power and pace and for me, is the natural replacement for Didier Drogba at the club.

Imagine we are away struggling to break down the opposition with Torres up front. Lukaku comes on and gives our game a different dimension and causes our opponent a different problem.

The same the other way around. Our opponent has dealt with Lukaku and we struggle to break them down, Torres comes on and gives us an alternative and different option.

Romelu Lukaku needs to be given a chance as promised by Mourinho and he MUST take it over the coming weeks.