Romelu Lukaku is on fire for Inter Milan this season, despite Zlatan Ibrahimovic previously warning the Serie A club not to expect "good technique" from the Belgian.

Lukaku has often been mocked throughout his career for his poor first touch and lack of technique.

While that criticism comes mostly from fans, it seems a former teammate has the same opinion.

In fact, Ibrahimovic has revealed an outrageous bet that he made with Lukaku while at Manchester United.

“I will say this on Romelu: don’t expect good technique from Lukaku, but his best strength is sheer power. If only he’d listened to me,” Zlatan said, per Football Italia.

At Manchester United, we made a bet: ‘I’ll give you £50 for every decent first touch you make.’ He replied: ‘What do I win if I get them all right?’

“I told him nothing, he would simply become a better player.

"For the record, he never accepted the bet! Perhaps he was afraid of losing…Joking aside, Lukaku has this mad hunger to prove himself to the world and I’m sure he will do well at Inter too.”

Brilliant and brutal at the same time.

Zlatan and Lukaku came up against each other at the weekend as Lukaku's Inter came back from 2-0 down to win 4-2.

Ibrahimovic made it 2-0 to Milan just before half-time but Inter scored four without reply - with Lukaku scoring the fourth - in injury-time.

Looks like Lukaku has had the last laugh...