There are also doubts over whether he would flourish away from Barcelona, or in another country.
As well as Lukaku, the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Juan Cuadrado, Mohamed Salah and Ryan Bertrand have flourished away from Stamford Bridge after failing to impress the Portuguese.
The radical Islamic movement flourished away from the world's gaze in a cauldron of war, poverty and ignorance; it destroyed education, culture and the economy.
He was artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theater for 17 seasons, so he knows about the talent that grows and even flourishes away from the national spotlight.
Today's players could easily be uninterested in the event, unlike sportsmen for whom Olympic success has long represented the ultimate glory.In some ways, tennis bears comparison with football, whose professional game has also flourished away from the Olympics.
The hope is that Soloway and Transparent may symbolise a new age of small-screen diversity, not only of voices, but tones and textures, set to flourish away from the traditional, advertiser-reliant networks.
However, it added waspishly: "In accepting the role as maîtresse de cérémonie and presenting herself in more ambitious films, we might hope the second half of Tautou's career might flourish away from mediocrity: to be more precious, rare and unique".
Deng embarked on the world's biggest-ever poverty-reduction programme, ending the country's disastrous experiment with collective farming and establishing special economic zones where both foreign and domestic companies could flourish away from the direct supervision of the state.
The club are trying to stop the rot by cutting off the fish's head and the 2 Bundesliga should be seen as a chance to revive a culture of winning games, to give the club's younger or more talented players – such as Timo Baumgartl, Lukas Rupp, Filip Kostić, Timo Werner and Daniel Ginczek – a chance to regain confidence and flourish away from the toxic atmosphere of a relegation battle.
On the other hand, theatergoers nostalgic for the urbane, mind-teasing divertissements that once flourished Off Broadway — but withered away in the profit-hungry age of Broadway-or-bust economics — should leave happily hungry.
