In other news he's actually parted company with his agent Raiola and signed with an Italian agent who represented Evra apparently he'd fallen out with Mino over the way his transfer from Everton happened as he felt he bodged the deal with Chelsea by negotiating it with Conte rather than the actual decision makers at Chelsea. Basically he felt they wasted time on that deal and he's decided to go with another crowd going forward this was reported by Duncan Castles.
As for his player type there's still room for them Lewendowski, Kane, Icardi, Cavani, Ibra for example are all traditional number 9's in the RVN mould but what they all have is a much better all round game than Lukaku has been able to develop. Even Giroud & Benzema have proven vital to teams as that central man but they are important because of the way they interact with other players not because they score lots of goals.
The game has moved on and while Fergie did see that with his front 3 of Tevez, Rooney, Ronaldo in 07-09 he also saw the benefit of having a centre forward. Which is why he replaced Saha with Berbatov and then RVP as he knew when you are up against it you do need someone who you can play out to.
The front 3 as he had it was only really used in big games against most teams it was still 4-4-2 with Ronaldo on the right but a more conservative player on the left like Park or even Giggs who'd kind of make a midfield 3 to counter the fact Ronaldo didn't always track back and allowed him to focus on the attack.
We've put a lot of money into Lukaku so we are sort of stuck with it hopefully his recent change of diet and training plan will sort out his fitness issues because there were signs towards the back end of last season post Sevilla and before the cup final that his game was starting to come together. We also saw at the world cup what he can do when he has lots of movement around him as he makes clever runs to create space for others but that lack of magic with the ball at his feet will always mean to me he's a step below world class.