Jeroen Lumu isn’t a name which will be familiar to the majority of Liverpool supporters, but things could have been very different had the player’s career taken a different path.
Now 25-years-of-age he finds himself without a club and without much interest to suggest things will change soon.
He made his debut for Willem II, breaking records as he did so at the age of just 16. But his attitude meant that things would start to slip away quickly. By his own admission, Lomu was a ‘difficult boy’ and caused his then club all kinds of problems.
That didn’t stop interest from elsewhere, and according to the player, there was an attempt from Liverpool to sign him. Williem finally kicked him out at the age of 18, and that’s when the Premier League club showed up on the scene.
Speaking to VI, and quoted by Voetbal Primeur, Lomu explained: “I was able to sign a six-year contract with Liverpool. I even had a director of the club on the phone. If I had been normal in my life, I would have just become the best of the best. But I can’t act normal, that’s my biggest problem.”
The insinuation is that he walked away from a Liverpool deal because of more money being on offer elsewhere.
Lomu believes that if he’d have had the same mentality as Frenkie De Jong then he could be at Barcelona right now along with his compatriot, rather than being without a club.
Sadly, Lomu hasn’t been able to act the way he knows he needs to, and since Willem he’s played for Ludogorets Razgrad, SC Heerenveen, FC Dordrecht, SKN St. Pölten, Samsunspor, Odisha FC, FC Petrolul Ploiești and FC Arouca.
