According to Sky Sport Italia and Sportitalia, Inter have now agreed terms with Chelsea to bring back Romelu Lukaku on loan for €8m plus bonuses and the paperwork is being drawn up.
The centre-forward only left under a year ago for €113m, but immediately expressed regret about the decision and said in December he wanted to return to San Siro.
It wasn’t expected to be quite so immediate, but Inter need to get the deal done by June 30 in order to continue to benefit from the tax breaks on his salary.
The bonuses are tied to the objectives of the club rather than the player, so will be activated if Inter win the Scudetto, Champions League or Europa League, up to €4-5m.
They are not tied to the achievements of the player, so how many goals or appearances Lukaku makes are irrelevant to the payment.
There will be no option to buy, let alone an obligation, so this is a dry loan.
Lukaku has also accepted a significant pay cut in order to push through the transfer to Inter.
According to FCInterNews.it, the Belgium international will have his medical on Friday at the latest.
The news comes just hours after Inter announced coach Simone Inzaghi had extended his contract to June 2024.
Funnily enough, Lukaku immediately ‘liked’ that post on Instagram, further proving his desperation to get back to Serie A.
Sky Sport Italia also report that lawyer Sebastien Ledure, who is working with Lukaku to get the deal done, arrived this morning at the club HQ hiding in the back of CEO Beppe Marotta’s car.
#Inter–#Lukaku, la chiusura è sempre più vicinahttps://t.co/hoFfEzvnXl
— Gianluca Di Marzio (@DiMarzio) June 21, 2022
King is back!!!!! Forzaaaaa!
What a deal for Inter. Unbelievable stuff from Chelsea though, absolute mess.
Grande Marotta:
Selling him for 113M then getting him back for 8+bonuses in his prime year.
I`m still skeptical about this deal: Let`s see how Lukaku can perform without having Pintus at the club!
So all this for only one year? And then what, back to Chelsea? What will change then for Lukaku?
Good move for Lukaku. He is heading back with his tail between the legs to an easier league. He had his chances in England and could not handle the pressure. Farmers league awaits with open arms.
Lol
Farmers league @Tony? You do know Lukaku is a top 20 scorer since the prem started? Better than your Drogba’s and Rooneey’s! lol
Hopefully this means dzekosaurus is leaving
your comments are not fair to lukaku. he handled the pressure well. the coach simply under-utilised him. i expected lukaku to leave chelsea.
@Calcio lover given his contribution so far it doesn’t sound like Tony knows much of anything at all.
Tony doesn’t know what he’s talking about? Farmers league that’s why Italian teams have more titles totally in Europe than the prem, serie is tactics prem is just cardio run end to end and that’s it lol? Italy and Spain actually play the game called football with skills and tactics not athletics like the prem.
@tony Sounds like someone is still bitter about the Euro final defeat to the team of players from the “Farmers league” as you call it. Too bad the English FA can’t turn to their Arab and American sugar daddies to give them shopping money for some foreign players to help the England national team win an international trophy.