Interview with a Belgian TV: “When Chelsea made the third offer I realized it was serious: I went to Inzaghi, his head was already in London …”
Without beating around the bush Romelu Lukaku is back to talk about his former team, Inter, and
goodbye to the Nerazzurri after only two seasons e a championship won. “Inter took me off the m …. I would have left her alone for Chelsea “, he said in an interview with the Belgian
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since the retirement of the national team, involved in the world qualifiers for Qatar 2022. And so it was.
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Because the Belgian is suddenly left for the Premier League to return to Stamford Bridge from the club that bought him from Anderlecht in the summer of 2011. “When Chelsea’s third offer came, I knew it was serious and I was going to go. The Blues offered 110 million euros plus Zappacosta, but Inter said no. So I went to Simone Inzaghi’s office to find an agreement. I was still at Inter, but my head was already in LondonAdded Lukaku, admitting the moment of farewell. That for the Nerazzurri fans it was painful precisely because it happened suddenly, when they hoped that the striker could stay in Milan for a third season.
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Arrived in 2019 from Manchester United at the behest of Antonio Conte, Lukaku led Inter to a second place (one point behind Maurizio Sarri’s Juventus) and one Europa League final (lost in Cologne on 21 August 2020 against Sevilla) in the first season and to the Scudetto (expected 11 years, from José Mourinho’s treble) in the second. Before the farewell he had to digest the elimination in the quarter-finals at the European Championships against Roberto Mancini’s Italy, then victorious in the final a Wembley on penalties against England: «Hazard was not in shape, De Bruyne had an operation. Italy has outclassed us ».
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September 4, 2021 (change September 4, 2021 | 18:32)
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