Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku has hit out at his critics in England.
Lukaku left Manchester United a year ago to join Inter.
“A year ago, when I was in England, I was 'lazy, I didn't run, I didn't do this and that'. Here, they call me the hardest worker in the room," said Lukaku to The Times.
“If you look at me playing here and there, I mean, there are improvements, yeah, but the [same] Rom is still here.
“Stuff happens in football but it's something you need to explain to the next generation of kids, that you need to have full control over your destiny. Make sure when you go somewhere that every piece of the puzzle has to be right. Know what I mean? At the time, we saw the outcome, we saw how I did. And if you look at me now you see a different outcome, you see the full person, you see the full potential. You see what I could have been doing in England."
He saw a “negative spiral" of criticism in the Premier League and is relishing his ability to prove them wrong now he is at Inter.
“They will call me slow and I'm like, 'Slow? Me, slow? I cannot keep up with the fast pace game of Man U? There were too many little things where I thought this is not right."
