Chelsea have a combined file in terms of spending massive cash on strikers lately, and it appears to be like like Romelu Lukaku shall be remembered alongside Alvaro Morata and Fernando Torres as marquee signings that simply didn’t work out.
On paper, Lukaku’s return to Stamford Bridge final summer time regarded like a no brainer. He was coming off two distinctive seasons with Inter Milan and there was loads of unfinished enterprise to inspire him, however it simply didn’t work out.
Sky Sports reported that Chelsea paid as a lot as £97.5m to carry him again to the membership final summer time, however it now appears to be like like he’ll be allowed to depart on mortgage with the asking value for the operation being drastically dropped:
Inter are more and more assured of securing Romelu Lukaku on mortgage. Tone has modified after Chelsea present willingness to compromise on his exit: https://t.co/YQA5FuugtD #CFC
— Nizaar Kinsella (@NizaarKinsella) June 15, 2022
The report does declare that Chelsea have explored the opportunity of attempting to signal one in every of Inter’s defenders in return as they appear to strengthen a positon of want, however that’s unlikely to occur and this appears to be like like it would simply be a mortgage operation, whereas there’s no suggestion of there being an choice to purchase at this stage.
His place within the squad will must be crammed however he was solely in a position to present eight Premier League objectives final season so it won’t be the largest boots to fill, whereas in some methods it’s admirable of Chelsea to easily minimize bait and admit the experiment has failed slightly than attempting to power him into the crew to justify the large outlay.
