Following his extraordinary confession on Sky Sport Italia, it’s reported Romelu Lukaku is pushing for a return to Inter and Chelsea wouldn’t be entirely against a loan deal in January.
The striker was instrumental in winning their first Serie A title for a decade, then forced an exit in the summer worth €115m for his return to Stamford Bridge.
Now Lukaku has expressed all his regret at the way he left and the rapport with coach Thomas Tuchel, admitting he “cannot be happy with the situation” at Chelsea.
The Belgian also assured he will one day return to Inter, not at the “end of my career,” but when he is still able to win silverware.
After this bombshell interview, the Corriere della Sera newspaper claims it is not entirely inconceivable that Lukaku could make that comeback in January 2022.
If he continues to clash with Tuchel, then the idea of a mid-season loan is technically possible, even if Chelsea would have to cover a large part of his €12m per season net salary.
Inter are in the Champions League Round of 16, where they are due to face Liverpool in February, but already have Lautaro Martinez, Edin Dzeko, Joaquin Correa and Alexis Sanchez on the books.
Despite losing Lukaku, Achraf Hakimi and coach Antonio Conte, Inter are actually doing better than last season, progressing in Europe and topping the Serie A table at the midway stage.
Sky Sport Italia have also dug up a comment that Inter director Piero Ausilio made a couple of weeks ago, in which he was asked about a possible Lukaku return.
“On loan, sure.”
CorSera – Lukaku vuole l’Inter, prestito non impossibile. E forse quella frase di Ausilio…https://t.co/ieNHXJ9mm8
— Fcinter1908 (@fcin1908it) December 30, 2021
Yet another Balotelli
He probably heard the story about PIF take over at Inter. He would suit Juventus more than Inter at the moment.
He won’t come! He wants his fat paycheck which we can’t afford!
I had a girl friend like this, one day she wants me the next she did not. Finally she dumped my sorry ars and we went or separate ways. God I miss that girl
You can’t warm the soup twice.
Come on…one thing missing against real madrid was a force like Lukaku was in Italy. An unstoppable machine…Come home son!
@urban – that’s exactly what I was thinking.
I’d be surprised if he wasn’t also willing to consider Newcastle and PSG.. purely because of their ‘heritage’ or whatever… nothing to do with the insane money available.
When it was clear we needed 80 million he could have submitted a transfer request and left no hard feelings but he said “I’m going nowhere” and we sold Hakimi instead. We could still have Haki, seriously stuff him.
For non-Inter fans, let’s hope he comes back as he was never a big game player – always missing when it really counts.
@frankie as you can probably guess I’m an interista and I’d certainly agree he was far from clinical and certainly had a tendency to overthink things against bigger sides.
tbh the way he left and icardi left . i much prefer icardi, the only icardi problem is his wife but he left on better term than lukaku. when lukaku left its more painful because we just won league.
i prefer both of them not come back but just comparing how they left.
Wanda is certainly far from perfect but Maurito is a bit of a snake too, remember the whole “100 Argentine criminals” thing and the unforgivable feigning injury to avoid a game as well as a few other examples of his two faced behaviour.
I’d certainly agree Maurito was a much better finisher as that dude lived on crumbs.
As you said I wouldn’t want him or Lukaku back, we’d still have Haki if it wasn’t for his promises of staying.
Bring him back if Chelsea pay his wages. He’s far better than Dzeko or Alexis.
Icardi is a snake. Marotta is a man of principles (Old school!) he would never let him in again. Beside that Icardi has been keeping grudge against us, so he won’t come.
Lukaku is very much welcome at Inter.. Icardi, who?