₦airaland Forum

Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku is to seek legal advice over claims made by Everton owner Farhad Moshiri that he opted to leave the club after receiving a "voodoo message".

Moshiri told a shareholders' meeting that Lukaku, 24, received the message from "a pilgrimage to Africa".

Lukaku joined United for £75m in July after rejecting a new deal at Everton.

A representative for the player told BBC Sport: "Romelu's decision had nothing to do with voodoo."

The spokesperson added: "He distances himself from these beliefs and this statement and will now see what judicial steps can be taken in relation to them."

BBC Sport understands the Belgian has been left upset and angry by the claims.

His representative says Lukaku rejected the opportunity to become the highest paid player in Everton's history in order to pursue his desire to play at the highest possible level.

His representative added: "Romelu is very catholic and voodoo is not part of his life or his beliefs.

"He simply had no faith in Everton and no confidence in Mr Moshiri's project. That is why he did not want to sign on any condition.

"He wanted to make the next step in his career and wanted the security to be able to leave."

Last March Lukaku's agent, Mino Raiola, had claimed a new deal to remain at Everton was "99.9% done".

Premier League champions Chelsea had bid for Lukaku, but he then opted instead to join Jose Mourinho's United.

"We offered him a better deal than Chelsea and his agent came to Finch Farm to sign the contract," Moshiri told Everton's annual general meeting.

"Robert [Elstone, chief executive] was there, everything was in place, there were a few reporters outside," he added.

Moshiri said Lukaku then "called his mother" before the player revealed he had received the message telling him to join Chelsea.

The Iranian billionaire, who has put £150m of his own money into the Merseyside club to clear debts, said the Toffees offered the striker an "unbelievable" amount of money to stay and the "issue was not financial".

Moshiri added: "I wasted two summers to keep him. First summer with his agent, him and his family we managed to keep him. Last summer we offered him a better deal than Chelsea - whatever they offered we matched but he just didn't want to stay."

It is understood he rejected numerous opportunities to discuss a new contract as his desire to leave Everton was absolute. He then rebuffed further attempts to keep him at the end of last season. Twelve months previously Everton rejected offers from Lukaku's former club Chelsea to re-sign the player.

Sharethis page

Find out more

Match of the Day FacebookRead more on Match of the Day Facebook

Match of the Day TwitterRead more on Match of the Day Twitter

Premier League official siteRead more on Premier League official site

BBC Liverpool News & SportRead more on BBC Liverpool News & Sport

BBC Sport Premier LeagueRead more on BBC Sport Premier League

Everton official siteRead more on Everton official site

Manchester United official siteRead more on Manchester United official site

Chelsea FC official siteRead more on Chelsea FC official site

Benue killings: President Buhari orders the Inspector General of Police to relocate to Benue state.
The IG will be moving in with five additional units of PMF personnel and other police special forces. The relocation of the IG became necessary after an increase in the clashes between farmers and herdsmen in the state.

According to the Sole Administrator of Agatu Local Government Area, Mr. Mike Inalegwu has stated that over 5,500 lives were reportedly lost in the bloody crisis between Agatu farmers and Fulani herdsmen since the outbreak of the crisis in 2013.

hope is real oo..

Awoleesu:
seek interpretational services oga!

carry ur wahala and go...

sunbilor:
They said they created 8 million blue collar jobs to accommodate the millions of white collars job losses. Besides, APC flag has a blue color.

correct u re...

but somebody said they created 8million collar job,,,, I no understand

Awoleesu:
ma da didirin l'ohun...

Write in English my frd

MasViews:
It has become a trend especially on Nairaland to link every attack carried out by unknown persons to Fulani herdsmen.

so , the man did not know d pple dat attacked him abi...

lalasticlala

Fulani herdsmen had cut off Mr Arowolo's hand in his farm in Ojah, Akoko Edo. This is jihard o. Nigerians should rise up against this barbaric act.

biacan:
Don't judge the woman you don't know her story

.

zombieTRACKER:
Why are the men of God not speaking out
Benue people are mostly Christians
Do they care more about tithes and offerings than human lives?..


This is pathetic

when a man of God spoke about this issue sometime ago,,,,, Dss were after him, fellow Christian, even pastors critized him......

delugajackson:
He should tell us when petrol will be sold at N50 per litre. Not all these analytical projections.

.

kolawoleibukun:
durttie

slowpoke. ..

kolawoleibukun:
your pah

your's too

AFONJAPIG:
you guys should just shot those smelly gutters unah called mouth, the new baby is not alive, from the look the baby died during delivering, so what are they going to do with dead baby put him/her in the mortuary , arrange powerful burial abi even as that the parents no try , them for find disclosed area like dump site and throw the child away

.

Uyi168:
He also said something abt el rufia nt winning the 2015 elections

go and sit down, u don't hv anything meaningful to say...

Uyi168:
He said it..

when naa sshmmm

SweetJoystick:
you go take my guess work serious?

jst guess first b4 we take u serious. ..

Uyi168:
Thouqht he said el rufai have only 2weeks to live..

when did he say dat,, don't cum here to post rubbish saying wat u don't know. ..

SweetJoystick:
smh you lots should stop glorifying guess works as prophecies.

why didn't u guess.....

this should be on d front page....

How Apostle Suleman Foretold George Weah’s Victory In Liberian Election!

What makes a good prophecy is the fact that such prophecy must be startling, not mundane.
Mid October 2017, during the year’s edition of the Omega Fire Ministries’ Ministers’ Conference, servant of God, Apostle (Prof.) Johnson Suleman declared to the congregation that he indeed had had the divine privilege to follow and pray over the coming Liberian presidential election and that God revealed to him a footballer won the election.

His exact words;
“Let us pray over the Liberian election. I saw in praying the election and that prayer was so on point. In Liberia, during the election process, they need God. But when they even need God more is after the election. This is because the person I saw that won the election was not the person they gave it to. That is why I said we must pray. And if you must pray, pray that they give it to the person that won. I saw a young man win the election. I saw a footballer, a former striker. But, give him the mandate; problem. That is what I saw. So we must pray.”

it's either his wife is controlling him or dat's d covenant he entered to become rich"not to render help to family pple".....
because no matter hw stingy u re, u can't abandon ur parents. .......
leave him and hustle for urself and take care of ur parents......dat's life for u....

the scale of the derailment

At least three people have been confirmed killed after a US passenger train derailed onto a motorway in Washington state during rush hour on Monday morning.

Officials say 72 people were taken to hospitals after most of the Amtrak train's carriages left the track.

A number of those injured are reported to be in a critical condition.

Authorities said all carriages had now been searched, but would not rule out a rise in the number of dead.

Seven vehicles, two of them lorries, were hit on the I-5 highway below. Several people were injured in their vehicles but none died.

It was Amtrak's first passenger service to run on a new, shorter route.

Train 501 had left Seattle, heading south for Portland, at 06:00 local time (14:00 GMT). The derailment happened on a section of track, south of Tacoma, previously only used for freight trains.

Authorities quoted by Associated Press earlier spoke of at least six people killed.

Media captionPassenger describes the train crash: 'We could feel cars crumpling'

One passenger carriage could be seen dangling from the bridge, while others were strewn across the road and the wooded area next to the track.

A photograph released by Washington State Patrol showed one carriage upside down on the road, with wreckage all around it.

An Amtrak spokeswoman said the train had derailed at 07:33 local time (15:33 GMT).

There were 86 people on board, including 77 passengers and seven Amtrak crew members, as well as a train technician.

Police say 19 people were taken from the scene uninjured. Of the 72 transferred to hospitals for evaluation, 10 were considered to have serious injuries.

A state transport spokesperson was quoted in the Seattle Times newspaper as saying the curve where the train derailed had a 30mph (48km/h) speed limit.

Barbara LaBoe said the limit on most of the track was 79mph (128km/h) but drivers were supposed to slow dramatically at the spot where the train derailed.

She said warning signs were in place two miles before the lowered limit. The Associated Press reported that a website mapping train speeds suggested the train may have been travelling at 81mph before the derailment.

The cause of Monday's crash has not been confirmed and investigators have not yet commented on whether speed was a factor.

A recording of the train's emergency call to railway dispatchers was released to US media.

"Emergency! We are on the ground!" a man, possibly the conductor, radios in.

In a second radio call, another crew member reports that only the rear unit remains on the rails.

"All other cars appear to be on the ground in quite a mess," he says.

The train's engineer has a head injury, he tells dispatchers.

President Donald Trump's first reaction to the derailment was to tweet that it showed the need for his forthcoming infrastructure plan.

However US media outlets pointed out his submitted federal transportation budget actually proposed cuts to funding to national rail systems.

Skip Twitter post by @realDonaldTrump

Report

End of Twitter post by @realDonaldTrump

He later added that his thoughts and prayers were with those involved.

The section of track where the crash happened has been recently rebuilt and upgraded using federal funds.

Washington's governor has declared a state of emergency in two counties.

Image copyrightWASHINGTON STATE PATROLImage captionOne carriage was hanging from the tracks, while another was upside down

Passenger Chris Karnes, on board the train, said his carriage had careered down an embankment then come to a stop: "We could hear and feel the cars crumpling and breaking apart, and water came out from the ceiling."

"In order to get out... we had to kick out the emergency window," he added.

Governor Jay Inslee said he was praying for the many injured.

Skip Twitter post by @GovInslee

Report

End of Twitter post by @GovInslee

Officials set up a family reunification centre at DuPont city hall and asked people not to come to the scene of the crash.

A local news reporter who was on the train, but got off at a stop just before the crash, said many of those on board were railway enthusiasts, keen to experience the first high-speed train on the new route.

Every passenger was given a commemorative lanyard and badge to mark their journey, he said.

fake story. ...
old pics of a young lady ,uploaded by her boyfriend on FB, early last year....

The sister of a British explorer who went missing in Africa 14 years ago is still hoping he will get home to the UK after he was reportedly seen begging.

Hannah Velten said there had been a reported sighting of her brother Christian in Ghana, in 2005.

A man was described in a Facebook message as being confused and thin, but asking for money to buy a ticket home.

Since then, a further sighting in 2015 reported him as having settled in Africa with a girlfriend.

Image copyrightFAMILY HANDOUTImage captionChristian Velten went missing in 2003 at the age of 27

That last confirmed sighting of Mr Velten was in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ms Velten said her family had, at one time, given up hope of ever seeing him again.

"I had to get on with my life. I had to think of him as dead," she said.

After successive appeals to find him, Ms Velten, who lives near Herstmonceux, East Sussex, set up the Searching for Chris Velten Facebook page in 2016.

Image copyrightFAMILY HANDOUTImage captionChristian Velten was a zoology graduate who studied in Edinburgh

She later received a message reporting the sighting of a white man begging at traffic lights in Accra, Ghana, in 2005. The correspondent said the man was looking for his family.

Ms Velten said the man had been described as dirty, bruised and looking as if he had just left hospital.

It led the family to believe he might have had an accident or been attacked and lost his memory, she said.

She told the BBC the family had not flown out to search for her brother because it would be like looking for "a needle in a haystack".

Image copyrightFAMILY HANDOUTImage captionA more recent sighting has suggested he settled in Africa with a girlfriend

Mr Velten, who was a seasoned traveller, had set out to retrace the steps of 18th Century explorer Mungo Park in March 2003, aged 27.

His last phone call home came from Kita in Mali on 23 March, but a search party sent out to the country that October established sightings of him further up the River Niger in Bamako.

Mother-of-two Ms Velten said: "We still miss him like hell."

She has made a fresh appeal to her brother to make contact.

"Come home or get in touch," she said. "That's all we want."

Related Topics

What's happening currently in Israel with the issue of capital in Jerusalem was prophesied by GOD'S choice servant apostle johnson suleman at the beginning of the year"He said I see trump favouring israel, America embassy in israel to be moved to Jerusalem".
GOD is still saying something. .