Lukaku wants Champions League football next season
After his father backed him to join Manchester United or Bayern Munich, Romelu Lukaku admits he wants to play in the Champions League.
Romelu Lukaku has fuelled talk of a transfer away from Everton after admitting he would like to play in the UEFA Champions League next season.
The Everton striker's father spoke to Het Laatste Nieuws and urged the Belgium international to join either Manchester United or Bayern Munich at the end of the season.
Lukaku says it is not surprising to hear his father mention his own favoured sides as potential suitors but hinted that he could look to engineer a move away from Goodison Park in order to play in Europe's top competition in 2015-2016.
"It's my dad's point of view, those are the teams that he likes. It's good to hear," he said. "Of course, it means people are keeping an eye on you, but I have an agent who is dealing with this for me at the moment. I just want to be good, help my teammates win the games and score a lot of goals.
"I'm 23 next summer and it would be nice to play in the Champions League next season."
Chelsea has also been linked with a bid to bring Lukaku back to Stamford Bridge, with some reports suggesting that Antonio Conte will make him his number one priority in the transfer market should he take charge of the current Premier League champion.
Lukaku denied the suggestion that he has a point to prove at Chelsea, which sold him to Everton for £28 million ($52.7 million) in 2014, and says all parties benefited from his departure.
"I wouldn't say that, I've nothing to prove," he said. "I've moved on, they moved on. It was the best deal for both teams - they won the league and I became a better player. We'll see what the future brings."