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It is market news that the Belgian player, Romelu Lukaku, goes on loan from Chelsea to Inter Milan, where he returns after his winning stage in 2020 and 2021. The two teams agreed on Wednesday the loan for one year of Lukaku, who has already passed medical tests. The Belgian returns to Milan after ‘failing’ for the third time in his attempt to succeed in the London team. The curse of the English club hits the striker again who failed for the third time in the ‘Blues’ without being able to demonstrate his real value. The previous seasons at ‘Stamford Bridge’, with Villas-Boas before and José Mourinho after, were a complete disaster for a player who successively managed to rescue himself at other clubs.
Lukaku’s at Chelsea is a long story that began in August 2011, when Villas-Boas started the season with the young Anderlecht signing
as reinforcement for your template. Fifteen million cost a 19-year-old boy, a physical striker with a sense of goal, 19 and 20 goals in the two previous campaigns in the Belgian championship.
Romelu Lukaku arrived at the team trained by the Portuguese with all the conditions to become the star of the club, but the first year did not go as expected and he had few appearances in the line-ups (eight) in the English championship, none in the Champions League ( which ended up being raised by Chelsea himself that year). His scoring drought, not a single goal, and the little space he enjoyed in his team pushed the powerful Belgian attacker to leave the London team for the first time, choosing the loan formula to West Bromwich. In this team he played 35 games and scored 17 goals, the first great explosion of the Belgian. The player confirmed to be a nine with a valid potential for elite teams, although luck eluded him again in London.
That brilliant campaign led to his return to Chelsea, this time with another Portuguese coach on the bench, José Mourinho. As with Vilas-Boass, with Mou he did not enjoy opportunities either. After the defeat of the London team in the European Super Cup, in which the Belgian missed the final shot in the penalty shootout, the coach decided that the striker would not be part of his squad.
After playing two games in the Premier League, Chelsea loaned him to Everton in August, where he managed to establish himself. In that season he celebrated 15 goals in 31 games, a loot that convinced the Liverpool team to undertake the definitive purchase of him. Chelsea pocketed 35 millions and Lukaku became the mainstay of the ‘Toffees’: 166 matches and 87 goals in four years they were the summary of the stage of the powerful Belgian attacker in the ‘toffee’ team.
In the summer of 2017, Lukaku and Mourinho’s careers crossed again. That year, Manchester United disbursed 84.70 million euros to sign the attacker. The chemistry with the Setúbal coach turned out better than in their first adventure together at Chelsea. The Belgian was at Old Trafford for two seasons, in which he faced 96 games and scored 42 goals.
The contribution of the Belgian ‘giant’ caught the attention of Inter Milan, who signed him for 74 million euros. The striker confirmed his scoring prominence in Belgian football, scoring 64 goals in two years. His contribution was key for the Interista team to finally remove the label of ‘losing team’, winning the Italian league after a long domination by Juventus.
After this new explosion, the striker, then 29 years old, received an offer from Chelsea last summer that was difficult to refuse: double his salary and 113 million euros for Inter. Eight years later, Lukaku returned to Stamford Bridge wanting to vindicate himself and succeed, in his third attempt, in the London team. But the curse was repeated at the English club this season. Many errors and few goals were the common denominator of Lukaku’s year in London. His 8 goals did not compensate for the financial effort made by the London club to return him ‘home’. The relationship with Tuchel, his coach, was never idyllic and Inter today brought back their former player to strengthen their lead for next season. An arrival in the form of a transfer.
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