Everton Set World Record Asking Price For Romelu Lukaku

How much would you pay for goals in your football team? They're pretty valuable to say the least. But will anyone think that Romelu Lukaku's goals are worth more than any player in the history of football?

Football is a bit of an anomaly when it comes to sport. Single scores are worth more in football than any other sport. Against other sports where there's only one way to score, like hockey, goals happen much more often and in sports like rugby there's more than one way to score to.

So goals in football are like gold dust! It's why everyone spends so much more on strikers than they do on defenders, even though it stands to reason that stopping goals is just as important considering the paucity of them.

_{Ronaldo's goals have made him essentially priceless to Real Madrid. Image: PA Images}

The world's most expensive players tend to be ones who can at very least create a lot of goals if not score them. Cristiano Ronaldo's record proves just why he was the world's most expensive signing for a while.

So it might come as no surprise that Everton, according to the Mirror, have placed a £100 million transfer fee on 23 year old striker Romelu Lukaku who is refusing to sign a new deal at Goodison Park.

Romelu Lukaku

_{Lukaku could be one of the big transfers of the summer if anyone can match Everton's valuation. Image: PA Images.}

The Belgian has two years left on his current deal but has told the club that he won't be signing a new contract and would like to move on so he can further his career and play Champions League football.

But with the Toffees not needing to sell right now, and not until next summer when there's only one year left on his deal, they are hoping to put perspective clubs off signing him by sticking a huge transfer fee on his head, which would make him the world's most expensive player.

Lukaku leads the Premier League scoring charts this season with 24 goals with Tottenham's Harry Kane a further four goals back with just six games left for the Englishman to catch the Belgian.

Last year the Blue half of Merseyside were asking for £70 million when Chelsea became interested in their former player but his goal scoring antics this season have pushed the price up.

Could Lukaku become the world's first £100 million player?

Ryan Sidle

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