Romelu Lukaku

[YoramG]

The Athletic: Chelsea have already made two bids for Romelu Lukaku this summer, which is a strong signal of intent. Don’t be surprised if Chelsea make a third attempt for Lukaku — no matter what Inter’s stance is.

I'm very torn, it has to be INDECENT money for us to sell Rom. And then we still have to replace him within a month, which sounds impossible considering the availability of strikers and our complete unwillingness to spend money.

As mentioned, Haaland is the only one I can think of that would come without a drop in quality but he's even more expensive than Lukaku.

If we're gonna sell this guy, I'd rather we do it next summer to properly plan.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Next summer might be too late. He's 29 next summer and I don't know if EPL clubs would be willing to invest to him anymore. United is out of equation, City gets Kane this summer so it's basically only Chelsea in a scenario they can't sign striker this summer and can't sign Haaland next summer.

 

[crzdcolombian]

130 million take it and run.

is it 100 million + Werner? Prefer 130 + loan

tho we’rent we offered Jovic?

as for Zapata dude is complete and utter shit outside of Atalantas system. Anyone who seen him for Colombia will know that plus he is 30. The amount of open goals he misses for us is fking inexcusable!! And will be at least 25-30 million. I just don’t see much up side in this guy. Same for Muriel as I know we have been linked in the past to him as well.

 

[andrei]

130 million take it and run.

is it 100 million + Werner? Prefer 130 + loan

tho we’rent we offered Jovic?

as for Zapata dude is complete and utter shit outside of Atalantas system. Anyone who seen him for Colombia will know that plus he is 30. The amount of open goals he misses for us is fking inexcusable!! And will be at least 25-30 million. I just don’t see much up side in this guy. Same for Muriel as I know we have been linked in the past to him as well.

Ironically, the contingent who were against buying Lukaku used Zapata as an exemple. Why pay 70m for a panzer like Lukaku when you can have Zapata like half the price? It didn't age very well!

 

[Il Drago]

Matt Law:

Romelu Lukaku back on top of Chelsea's new striker wish list​

Chelsea also want to push ahead with a deal for Sevilla defender Jules Kounde - but may need to sanction a sale first

Romelu Lukaku has jumped back to the top of Chelsea’s wanted list of strikers with Borussia Dortmund showing no sign of altering their not for sale stance on Erling Haaland.

As well as trying to negotiate a deal with Inter Milan, who have insisted Lukaku will not be sold, Chelsea are ready to make an official bid for Sevilla defender Jules Kounde if they first line up a deal to sell one of their central defenders with Kurt Zouma currently the most likely to depart.

Tuchel wants a new striker, but with Dortmund digging in their heels over Haaland for this summer, it seems that his hopes of bringing in a big-money number nine may rest on whether or not Inter will relent over Lukaku.

The situation could of course change if Dortmund suddenly show a willingness to negotiate over Haaland, but Chelsea are currently focussing their attention on Lukaku.

Lukaku and Inter have both publicly declared that they expect the Belgian to be playing in Serie A this coming season, but that has not yet put off Chelsea who are well aware of the Italian club’s financial difficulties.

The good relations Chelsea share with Lukaku’s agent, Federico Pastorello, who attended the club’s Champions League final win against Manchester City, have also contributed to the belief that a deal is still worth pursuing.

Inter’s asking price for Lukaku is currently well above what Chelsea would be prepared to pay to take the 28-year-old back to Stamford Bridge, but there is still almost a month of the transfer window to run.

While Chelsea are thought to be the only club capable of persuading Lukaku to leave Inter, the former Manchester United striker will not push for a move.

He is being heavily involved in Inter’s plans for the new season as proven by the fact that on returning to Milan just over a week ago, he made a quick pit-stop at his apartment before heading straight to the training ground for talks with new head coach Filippo Inzaghi.

Inzaghi has been consulting with Lukaku over Inter’s transfer plans and his expectations for the new season, which has been welcomed by the player.

Nonetheless, Tuchel is a big fan of Lukaku and believes he could convince the striker to re-join Chelsea if the club can convince Inter to lower their demands.

Should Inter hold their ground, then Tuchel has not ruled out the prospect of starting the season with Kai Havertz, who scored against Arsenal in a pre-season friendly at the weekend, and Timo Werner as his first-choice strikers.

Romelu Lukaku back on top of Chelsea's new striker wish list

Chelsea also want to push ahead with a deal for Sevilla defender Jules Kounde - but may need to sanction a sale first

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Gaindé]

Nonetheless, Tuchel is a big fan of Lukaku and believes he could convince the striker to re-join Chelsea if the club can convince Inter to lower their demands.

In a world where Grealish is worth 100M, you either pay 150M for Lukaku or you stfu. That was in June/July by the way.

Now it's too late.

 

[Il Drago]

In a world where Grealish is worth 100M, you either pay 150M for Lukaku or you stfu. That was in June/July by the way.

Now it's too late.

Yeah. That's hilarious. The club, that doesn't even give a discount for fucking Emerson, wants a discount for Lukaku. Fuck off. We need to have a hard stance on this. Chelsea are desperate for a forward, Lukaku is their only realistic option and it's late in the transfer market. Either satisfy our demands or gtfo.

 

[Universe]

Grealish is English and English players are genetically superior to all others.

 

[Gaindé]

Yeah. That's hilarious. The club, that doesn't even give a discount for fucking Emerson, wants a discount for Lukaku. Fuck off. We need to have a hard stance on this. Chelsea are desperate for a forward, Lukaku is their only realistic option and it's late in the transfer market. Either satisfy our demands or gtfo.

This. We should be respected in Europe.
Unfortunately, we are sh*t at selling and sh*t at buying. The fact that the same club who's been denying us discounts on Emerson and Marcos Alonso has the guts to ask for a discount on a 30 goals per season striker says it all.

Not even mentioning how we've been helping Cagliari save their ass in Serie A for the last three seasons and in addition to trying to sell Barella to Roma back then they're also making the negotiations hard for Nandez.

Grealish is English and English players are genetically superior to all others.

We should have tried to get 20-30M for Ashley Young :/

 

[Universe]

Yeah. That's hilarious. The club, that doesn't even give a discount for fucking Emerson, wants a discount for Lukaku. Fuck off. We need to have a hard stance on this. Chelsea are desperate for a forward, Lukaku is their only realistic option and it's late in the transfer market. Either satisfy our demands or gtfo.

This is where Marotta is not a great director. He's too sensible and pragmatic, never greedy enough. He needs to extort the fuck out of these cunts but instead he sees an offer which "makes sense" for the books, and he accepts it.

I can just see it.. Chelsea offer us an opening bid of €100m for Lukaku (which would only net us €65m capital gains). Marotta renegotiates for €60m + €10m bonuses plus Emerson valued at €30m. Emerson is given a 4 year contract on €4.5m wages.

(Joking of course, but you get my point.)

 

[Verathia]

If we sell Lukaku I am going to lose my damn mind. Should absolutely be untouchable for us. Sell the other one.

 

[Brandone]

Yeah. That's hilarious. The club, that doesn't even give a discount for fucking Emerson, wants a discount for Lukaku. Fuck off. We need to have a hard stance on this. Chelsea are desperate for a forward, Lukaku is their only realistic option and it's late in the transfer market. Either satisfy our demands or gtfo.

Keep your donkey and leave us alone, this guy isn't worth 50 millions let alone what you guys want, keep him and leave us alone don't want this donkey anywhere near my club.

 

[thatdude]

This is where Marotta is not a great director. He's too sensible and pragmatic, never greedy enough. He needs to extort the fuck out of these cunts but instead he sees an offer which "makes sense" for the books, and he accepts it.

I can just see it.. Chelsea offer us an opening bid of €100m for Lukaku (which would only net us €65m capital gains). Marotta renegotiates for €60m + €10m bonuses plus Emerson valued at €30m. Emerson is given a 4 year contract on €4.5m wages.

(Joking of course, but you get my point.)

I think it’s a little early to say that. Beppe actually did pretty well with sales at Juve. He also did well with Icardi. Hakimi was a different situation. I don’t see him bending over backwards here.

 

[Universe]

Was a ban too harsh?

Edit: nah fuck that shit

 

[Il Drago]

Was a ban too harsh?

Edit: nah fuck that shit

I was going to ban him but you were faster.

He wanted to be left alone. Wish granted.

 

[brehme1989]

Grealish is English and English players are genetically superior to all others.

He's Irish.

 

[thatdude]

I was going to ban him but you were faster.

He wanted to be left alone. Wish granted.

We must have all done it at the same time.

 

[Nero Indigo]

Lol who got banned?

 

[CafeCordoba]

Matt Law is no joke so let's see what's gonna happen this week. If they are really offering (almost) double salary to Lukaku it's gonna get interesting.

It's indeed so late in the window that we need to do the sale this week and wrap the replacement next week at the latest. And Chelsea needs to comply and pay without too much haggling. If we are going to do this shit at all.

 

[William]

This management wouldn’t bother finding a replacement