Former Chelsea striker Chris Sutton says Romelu Lukaku's current contribution is simply not good enough.
Lukaku had a Premier League record low seven touches of the ball in victory at Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Sutton wrote for the Daily Mail: "I could look back at my time at Chelsea and blame everybody else. My manager, my team-mates, the tactics, the pressure of the price tag, whatever. But ultimately, I blame myself.
"I was the club's record signing. I cost them £10million in 1999 and it didn't work out, so I was sold after a single season in blue.
"Yet if I had ever finished a game having had only seven touches of the ball, I'd feel embarrassed walking back into that training ground.
"For a striker to come out of 90 minutes with that sorry statistic screams 'I'm hiding' and there's no escaping that for Romelu Lukaku.
"Maybe he will blame a lack of service, but that's only part of the problem.
"If Lukaku wanted to touch the ball more than seven times against Crystal Palace, he could have done.
"He could have made better movements. He could have made it impossible for his team-mates to ignore him."
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