Romelu Lukaku has revealed that he will 'never forgive' Andres Villas-Boas.
This came after being left out of the Champions League squad in the year Chelsea won the trophy.
Recollect that Lukaku in 2011 arrival at Stamford Bridge for a fee of £17million.
The Belgian was also not registered for the Champions League by the Portuguese manager.
Lukaku made his first start for Chelsea in the Premier League in May after Villas-Boas had been sacked.
Roberto Di Matteo, Villas-Boas' replacement, and he led Chelsea to an unlikely win in the Champions League in Munich against Bayern Munich.
'(Roberto) Di Matteo told me that I would stay with the group until after the final,' Lukaku told Het Laatste Nieuws, as reported by AD.
'He thought everyone should come along, including the ones who were suspended and the few boys who were not in the Champions League squad. I am also grateful to him for that.'
He added: 'This win is one of the things I've always dreamed about. You want to celebrate something like that with the team at that time.
'That is nice in itself at the age of nineteen. I am happy for the whole club, but there is one man who took a lot from me: the previous trainer (Villas-Boas). I will never forgive him for that.'
Lukaku added that he refused to hold the Champions League trophy when they were celebrating.
'I didn't touch it with a finger,' he said. 'Because I didn't win this trophy myself.
This has been the case since I was eleven: if I have not contributed anything, it is not my trophy.
'Only if you have contributed to a cup or a title yourself, you can also show it off.'
Lukaku opened up on the long-running issues between himself and Villas-Boas during his time at Stamford Bridge: 'Once I had to play in the front left, another time in the front right. You don't develop that way.
'Then at some point you have to think about yourself. So I told the club what I thought of it. I know: Villas-Boas was also under pressure. But that's why he didn't have to treat me like that.
'Di Matteo approached me completely differently, he immediately involved me in everything. That should have been much earlier. Really, I never forgave the previous coach.'
Lukaku was sent on loan at West Brom in 2012, and Everton in 2013 until he joined the Toffees permanently in 2014.
After three years at Goodson Park, he joined Manchester United for a fee of around £57m.
In 2019,Antonio Conte signed the Belgium forward for Inter Milan. He has scored 17 goals in 25 league appearances for Inter.
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