Chelsea’s battle to get rid of Romelu Lukaku has been a long one.
It took barely 6 months from the moment they signed him to start regretting that decision, and since then the situation has only deteriorated. Now they’re stuck in a situation where the kind of sums they might be paid for the striker continually decline.
If they had bitten the bullet last summer they might have got £60m for him – but understandably they gambled on loaning him out and hoping he did something special. He had a bad season that got better towards the end, and his value continued to drop.
Now sources like 90min are saying he’s close to a second move back to Inter, with Chelsea and the Italian side arguing over whether the loan should include a compulsory or a voluntary purchase clause.
That decision matters a lot, but in the end the clause will be £40m or below regardless. The Blues could have bitten the bullet and done the deal a year ago and got a better return.
Never understood why Chelsea went for him. He did well in the Italian League but flopped in the Premier League with Manchester United why Chelsea thought it would be different I don’t know. It did continue Chelsea’s (hopefully soon to be broken,) pattern of not signing a decent striker since Costa
Inter could not afford to buy him last summer, so there was never any question of selling him for £60m, as he refused to go anywhere else
he’s not worth even a tenner, add maguire to the defence – the worst team in the history of soccer