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8th August 2019
11:09am BST

"You watch him for 25 minutes, he looks like a world-beater but you see him make one run and he looks knackered," he said on Sky Sports. "Football players should know their bodies inside out, you know when you can eat, when you should relax, the portion sizes. "I am not sure how he hasn't corrected this problem. It is not a reflection on the sports science department at the club, something isn't right."Lukaku admitted he put on too much weight last season in an interview with Men's Health but stresses that his extra weight stemmed from playing in a different style with Belgium at the FIFA World Cup.
“In the Premier League, I cannot play with the same amount of muscle as international football,” he said. “That was something that when I came back I knew straight away: ‘Nah, I cannot play in this style like this.’ I had to lose muscle basically. So you just stay out of the gym, drink a lot of water, and a lot of veg and fish and it helps.”
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