MILAN, Italy —
Romelu Lukaku is expected to land in Italy on Tuesday evening ahead
of his return to Inter Milan on loan from Chelsea, the club’s CEO Giuseppe
Marotta has revealed.
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Asked when the
Belgium striker would be in Milan by reporters on his way out of an Italian
Football Federation meeting in Rome, Marotta said “this evening, I think” while
getting into a car.
He refused to answer whether free agent
Paulo Dybala
would be coming to Inter as that transfer has reportedly stalled while the club
try to offload players in order to accommodate the Argentina forward.
Lukaku is
expected to undergo a medical on Wednesday before making his long-awaited Inter
comeback official, after
Chelsea agreed to a reported deal in which Inter will
pay an initial eight million euros (€8.42 million) plus a further potential
three million in bonuses for the loan.
The 29-year-old
will again lead Inter’s attack as they attempt to regain the Serie A title
after taking a pay cut to a reported 8.5 million euros for the coming campaign.
Lukaku leaves
London after failing to make an impression for a second time at Chelsea, not meeting
high expectations following a £97.5 million move from Inter last summer.
He had made
himself a fan favorite over two years at Inter after scoring 64 times in 95
games and driving them to their first Serie A title in over a decade, the 2021
Scudetto ending both an 11-year drought and Juventus’ grip on Italian football.
However the
financial problems of Inter’s owners the Suning Group, exacerbated by the
coronavirus pandemic led to coach Antonio Conte leaving the club almost as soon
as the title was won.
He claimed the
cost-cutting required by Inter would have prevented him building the team he
wanted to challenge domestically and in Europe.
Lukaku followed
Conte out the door after the-European champions Chelsea offered a whopping sum
which eased some of Inter’s financial issues, and started well on his return to
Stamford Bridge.
Coach Thomas
Tuchel said “he was the type of guy we were missing” after he netted four times
in his first four games, but his next goal didn’t come until early December and
injury, COVID-19 and poor form kept him out of the team.
He then
infuriated Chelsea fans by conducting an interview with Sky Sport Italia in
which he expressed his unhappiness and said that he had Inter in his heart and
wanted to return.
Those comments
also led Inter’s hardcore ultras to say they weren’t interested in having him
back, having considered his move to Chelsea a betrayal of his claim to love the
Milanese club.
Now he will be part of
coach
Simone Inzaghi’s bid to snatch back the league crown from AC Milan after
they finished two points behind their local rivals last term.
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