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The same report references comments made by Everton owner Farhad Moshiri at a general meeting in 2018, which suggested the Belgian's decision to reject a contract extension at Goodison Park had been influenced by a "voodoo" message.
"We offered him a better deal than Chelsea and his agent came to Finch Farm to sign the contract," Moshiri is quoted as saying in The Guardian three years ago. "Robert [Elstone, Everton’s chief executive] was there, everything was in place, there were a few reporters outside, then in the meeting Rom called his mother. "He said he was on a pilgrimage in Africa or somewhere and he had a voodoo and he got the message that he needs to go to Chelsea."Lukaku did, of course, end up moving to Old Trafford instead of Stamford Bridge, where his time briefly overlapped with Ibrahimovic. Though Lukaku later rejected Moshiri's claims, some reports suggest this is what prompted Ibrahimovic's alleged reference to voodoo.
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