Exclusive: Joey Barton brands Everton's failure to replace Romelu Lukaka as 'outrageous'

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The Belgian striker moved to Manchester United in the summer for a reported fee of £75million, but the Toffees have struggled without their former talisman and have scored just four goals in seven Premier League games so far this season to leave them languishing only two points above the relegation shown.

And Barton claims someone at the club needs to take responsibility for not investing a large part of that transfer cash in a like-for-like replacement.

“How Everton have sold him and not had somebody in the No.9 jersey come in and replace…