Tony Cascarino advises Chelsea against signing Romelu Lukaku

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Everton striker Romelu Lukaku is reportedly wanted by Chelsea in the summer transfer window.

Tony Cascarino has suggested to FourFourTwo that Everton striker Romelu Lukaku is not good enough for Chelsea.

According to The London Evening Standard, Chelsea are interested in signing Lukaku from Premier League rivals Everton in the summer transfer window.

The 24-year-old striker was on the books of the London club from 2011 until 2014 when he joined the Merseyside outfit following a loan spell at Goodison Park.

Former Chelsea striker Cascarino, who now works as a pundit for talkSPORT, has suggested that the Belgium international would not be a suitable replacement for Diego Costa at Stamford Bridge.

Costa is one of the best strikers in the Premier League, but the Spain international has been linked with a move away from the Blues in the summer transfer window.

According to AS, the 28-year-old striker will return to Atletico Madrid this summer, but the striker will not play for the Spanish club until January 2018 due to a transfer ban on the La Liga outfit.

“To replace someone of Costa’s quality, you’re looking beyond Lukaku,” Cascarino told FourFourTwo. “He’s not the finished article.

“You should be looking at [Robert] Lewandowski or [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang, who’s lightning quick; [Antoine] Griezmann or someone like that.

“It’s hard, but sometimes transfers you think are impossible actually happen in the end. There’s [Alvaro] Morata at Real Madrid, who Conte signed at Juventus, but he might not trust him. There are players out there, but there aren’t many of that proven quality to replace Diego Costa.”