There are many opinions and theories doing the rounds right now about Romelu Lukaku's loss of form at Manchester United but, amid all the noise and conjecture, perhaps the reality is that the Belgium striker is performing just as he always has.
Maybe, as galling as it might be for Jose Mourinho and United's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, the club got exactly what they over-paid for when investing what could end up as much as £90 million in the forward in July 2018.
Lukaku is a goal scorer -- 31 goals in 64 games in a United shirt emphasises that -- but he is also an inconsistent one, prone to the kind of lengthy barren runs that he is enduring once again this season.