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Yeah. Everyone else from Sky claims the offer is 100m plus Alonso so i choose to believe them. I still consider the offer insufficient. If they want to involve a player in the deal then they should offer Reece James, Jorginho or at least Werner. Else, they need to raise the amount of cash. They need to cut the crap by offering deadwood for Lukaku.It's still a bit unclear is it 100m€ + Alonso offer or 100m€ valued offer including Alonso. Romano has been notoriously a bit unclear with these sometimes (at least for my liking).
Whatever is going to happen, decisions needs to be done during this week. If Lukaku ends up being open for the sale, Marotta needs to contact Fiorentina immediately for Vlahovic. We also need to basically have the replacement lined up before we officially sell Lukaku.
My gut feeling is Lukaku isn't having any of this. Talks of the 15m€ salary offer are probably total BS. I mean that's probably gross and not net, because 15m€ net equals £450k gross week wage. No one at Chelsea makes anywhere close to that, Kante makes £300k.
I feel differently. Selling Hakimi was a short-sighted, idiotic decision that this club will regret for the next 20 years until they find the next Achraf Hakimi who they'll sell way too quickly ('tis the Circle of Life™), but whatever the case may be, that decision has happened and we aren't going to be able to get him back from Paris now. If we're getting 9-digit offers for Lukaku, we'd be fucking idiots to not try and sell him at that price. He's 28 years old and never going to be worth this much on the market ever again, and we have no idea whether he'll ever find 2019-'21 form again with Conte gone. Obviously you can't sufficiently force him out if he doesn't want to leave, but this is a move I'd have no problem making. It's the kind of move that there should've been just enough patience on as to not have to force-sell Hakimi so fucking quickly in the first place. We always knew that big offers would eventually be floated out there for Lukaku or Lautaro alike.
I agree. Apart from the fact Suning desperately needed money, it made no sense, either financially or sporting, to sell Hakimi for 60m plus bonuses.
On the other hand, selling Lukaku for over 100m cash makes perfect sense from a financial point of view. He's 28, he's coming from a great season with Inter winning Serie A, he had a decent Euro, the coach who made him the focal point of his game plan is gone, Chelsea are desperate for a forward and they have no better options. His value is at its highest level. For Lukaku, it's now or never. Either you sell him now or you choose to stick with him for many years to come.
But from a sporting point of view selling Lukaku would be a huge risk. We have already lost Hakimi, Eriksen and there's lost of uncertainty around Perisic, Brozovic and Lautaro. If we also agreed to sell Lukaku, there's a chance we'll have lost 6 players from last season starting lineup in a year from now. That's basically a rebuild. And i don't see options out there who would give guarantees Lukaku could be properly replaced. We aren't getting Haaland or Lewandowski. Our realistic options are players like Vlahovic, Belotti, Zapata, David, Thuram, Isak. All of them are gambles. Gamble on the coach, gamble on Hakimi replacement, gamble on Lukaku replacement. Too many gambles for the new season.