Romelu Lukaku has slammed his critics during his time at Manchester United.
The Belgium striker struggled to nail down a regular starting place under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at United and had his professionalism questioned by club legend Gary Neville.
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However, Lukaku believes he has silenced his doubters by scoring 34 goals in his debut season at Inter Milan after leaving Old Trafford for £74million last year.
In an interview with The Times, the 27-year-old said: “A year ago, when I was in England, it was ‘lazy, I didn’t run, I didn’t do this and that’.
“Here, they call me the hardest worker in the room. If you look at me playing here and there, I mean, there are improvements but the [same] Rom is still there.
“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.
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“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’. If you call me slow I would not score a goal like I scored the second against Shakhtar Donetsk in the [Europa League] semi-final.
“If I was slow I would not have got the penalty like I did against Sevilla in the final. That’s two years after.
“Are you going to say me at 27 is faster than I was at 25? That’s what I’m trying to say. It’s just little things. I was like, ‘You know what? Eff this. I’m out.’”
Lukaku has started the new season in prolific form by netting three goals in his first two games.
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