According to the latest agreement published by the Italian media, striker Romelu Lukaku will join AS Roma club for a loan fee of 6 million euros.

After a stalemate summer, Chelsea finally found an outlet for Romelu Lukaku. The striker is set to reunite with coach Jose Mourinho on a loan deal to AS Roma. Chelsea will receive 6 million euros with this deal.

This is a record loss compared to what the Blues spent to recruit the Belgian striker in the summer of 2021. At that time, Chelsea spent 124 million euros and had high expectations for the return of the player once had. maturing time in the training furnace. However, Romelu Lukaku soon lost his motivation to play and returned to Inter Milan in the summer of 2022 for a fee of 8 million euros.

Finding joy again with Inter, but the striker born in 1993 “caught two-handed” when going out at night with Juventus, the club also made an offer. Bitter because of being betrayed, Inter Milan resolutely ended negotiations to buy this striker with Chelsea. At that time, Juve determined to only recruit Lukaku if Vlahovic was sold, so the deal ended up in a dead end.

In the context that no club is interested in this player, except for the Saudi Pro League, coach Jose Mourinho offered to borrow Romelu Lukaku for a season and quickly received the agreement. The loan is worth 6 million euros, with an option to buy 43 million euros next summer (this is the release fee for Lukaku).

So in case everything goes well and the Belgian striker plays well this season, he will bring in 43 million euros for Chelsea. Plus 14 million euros in two loan seasons at Inter and Roma, Lukaku helps the Blues “recover” 57 million euros, compared to the initial investment of 124 million euros (loss of 67 million).