Romelu Lukaku has joined Roma on a season-long mortgage from Chelsea, ending the long-running stand-off between participant and membership.
The PA information company understands the Serie A membership pays an £8million charge with no obligation to purchase whereas additionally taking over the Belgium striker’s wages, which can be decreased from the £325,000-a-week he earned at Stamford Bridge.
Blues supervisor Mauricio Pochettino hinted final week that there may nonetheless be a spot for the 30-year-old in his plans if a deal couldn’t be agreed earlier than Friday’s switch deadline.
Romelu Lukaku has accomplished a season-long mortgage transfer to A.S. Roma.
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Nonetheless, PA understands that Roma proprietor Dan Friedkin’s prioritising of Lukaku’s signing as a essential a part of the membership’s hopes to return to the Champions League for the primary time since 2019 prompted them to make sure a deal was completed.
Lukaku has not performed for Chelsea, whom he joined for £97.5m from Inter Milan two summers in the past, since Might 2022 and spent final season on mortgage again at Inter, serving to them attain the Champions League last.
The membership have been eager to re-sign him this summer time however he was reportedly sad after being ignored of Simone Inzaghi’s beginning line-up for the ultimate towards Manchester Metropolis in Istanbul, which Inter misplaced 1-0 after Lukaku got here on and missed a late alternative to stage the sport.
Juventus had additionally been eager to take him on mortgage earlier in the summertime however it’s understood Chelsea had been holding out for a everlasting sale, albeit one that may recoup a big proportion of the charge they paid in 2021.
Lukaku, who first performed for Chelsea between 2011 and 2014 however made solely 15 appearances between mortgage spells at West Brom and Everton earlier than being bought to the Goodison Park outfit, will hyperlink up with Jose Mourinho, with whom he labored throughout his time at Manchester United.
