Romelu Lukaku appears to be mocking the Manchester clubs. His Chelsea signing seems so obvious, so perfect, that it’s a genuine wonder that the postmortems haven’t already begun in rival boardrooms. For Manchester United, he’s the one that got away.

For Manchester City, he’s the kind of striker that they never had. For both Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Pep Guardiola, he’s a brutal reminder of what neither man has.