The Lukaku Transfer Saga: Chelsea’s Loan Offer and Roma’s Negotiations

Summer season of catchphrases, not only the musical ones, but also those related to the transfer market: the undisputed hit of the season, the one on the future of Romelu Lukaku, which has become a real soap opera that is making Chelsea, the club that holds the card and which, in the last few hours, has decided to even open up to the player’s outright loan to shake off the figures of the Belgian’s large salary which weighs heavily on the London budget, and is now out of technical projects.

Between Roma and Chelsea it will go on if not all night, almost. Tiago Pinto and Ryan Friedkin, after flying to London in the early afternoon, will be in the stands of Stamford Bridge, where the Blues will be engaged with Luton, to speak with the English management. The goal is to return to the capital with a total agreement for Lukaku after the London company has opened up to a loan deal in the last few hours that is not conditional on the obligation to buy. Hence the yellow and red lunge with Dan Friedkin leading the way. In fact, it was the president of Roma who initiated the operation with Boehly, number one of the Blues and also an American entrepreneur.

Then it was José Mourinho’s turn to illustrate the Giallorossi project to the player in a phone call that paved the way for Pinto and Ryan Friedkin’s London trip. Roma would like to close with the outright loan and the help of Chelsea on the 12 million salary, on the other hand the London club would like the loan to be at least onerous and for the largest part of the salary to be paid by the Giallorossi. However, the basis for negotiation is there and Chelsea’s willingness to get rid of the player because they are tired of his attitude also hangs in favor of Roma. For tomorrow, the return to the capital of Pinto and Ryan Friedkin is expected, with or without Lukaku since the Belgian would like to take the weekend to decide.

Farewells, returns, declarations of eternal love then the betrayal: there is all this in the relationship between Lukaku and Inter which ended after winking at Milan and above all at Juventus of the ‘I never’ (for weeks it was speculated exchange that would have brought Vlahovic to Chelsea), with the Belgian not convinced of being placed at the center of Simone Inzaghi’s Nerazzurri project. The no to the Arabs, the interest of Real Madrid and Tottenham, and now a road has opened that leads to Rome, the Giallorossi side. According to the Telegraph, the opening to the loan of the Londoners would also be the consequence of the fact that Lukaku would have tired of waiting for the move from Juve, the club he had chosen. A lot of interest but no other European club has actually come forward with concrete proposals for the Belgian, despite the controversial lawyer Sebastien Ledure, who looks after the interests of the Belgian, having offered it to half of Europe.

After returning from loan to Inter, the striker ended up out of the squad at Chelsea, with no chance of being pardoned by new manager Mauricio Pochettino. An intricate summer that of Lukaku. The only concrete offer so far was the one delivered to the Blues by Al-Hilal, a club that until now Lukaku had excluded from the overview of his future. So, they say in England, Chelsea have good reason to be angry with their player and his many aren’t. The Belgian – whom those who met him in Milan do not hesitate to define as a difficult character, bordering on a ‘whim’ – is eager to stay in Europe, perhaps even in Italy. Arrived at Inter in 2019 at the express request of Antonio Conte, with the Apulian coach he conquers the Scudetto with the Nerazzurri shirt Lukaku is an all-round character. The racist insults suffered, the personal battle against racism in the stadiums. Many rumors but until this morning there was very little concrete except that Lukaku continues to train alone in London, looking for a team where he can start all over again and get back into the game for the umpteenth time in his career.

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2023-08-25 21:04:00
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