ROME The agreement between Rome and Chelsea per Luke it is closing. Yesterday new contacts between the two clubs (the ownership of the Blues was in Strasbourg) who found, after a long back and forth, an agreement in principle on the cost of the loan. Not the 10 million initially requested by the Blues, but not even the 5 million offered by the Giallorossi who will have to add another 3 in bonuses. As usual, the topic of discussion in these hours is the ease of making them usable. Rock, from what transpires, that can be circumvented today when GM Pinto and Paul Winstanley, Todd Boehly’s right-hand man, will meet again after the long meeting that took place on Saturday. But this is not the main issue on which the parties will have to confront Lukaku’s salary. From this point of view, the two months’ salaries that he must receive from the London club are the keystone of the entire negotiation. Romelu, net of the cut he accepted in order to return to play in Italy, wants to earn 9 million, the amount he received in the last season in Milan.
If Chelsea pay him the fee of 1.8 million for July and August (where he never trained with the first team) the mosaic would be completed with the missing piece. Because Roma could thus offer 7.2, respect the transfer balance and not face possible restrictions in the future UEFA list. Today is considered an important day. Indeed crucial. Because Lukaku is expected in London.
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THE UNKNOWN
It must be said that there is still an underlying optimism about the happy outcome of the story and the return of Dan Friedkin to the City seems to be yet another confirmation. A situation therefore that he can unblock at any moment unless what the British media relaunched yesterday evening takes hold. That is, if Lukaku accepts this salary cut to go to Roma, Chelsea would have asked to extend it for the entire duration of the agreement (until 2026). It goes without saying that the situation would become slightly more complicated because Romelu would not give up two million but six for the entire period of time. The only unknown therefore concerns the relationship between the center forward and the London club. Imagining them not idyllic – after Big Rom was forced to train with the Blues’ U21s – doesn’t go very far.
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Therefore, if the Belgian finds an agreement with Chelsea, the one with Roma will be the simple consequence. On the contrary, the agreement found with the Giallorossi would also be complicated, because Pinto would have to raise the offer of 7.2 million to the player which already today seems to be the limit beyond which the Giallorossi cannot go. In the meantime, Rome has verified all the papers relating to the benefits of the growth decree, essential for the happy-end. In fact, by signing for Roma, Lukaku would enter his fifth year of benefit (considering that he landed in Italy in 2019, at Inter, and that the year of his return to Chelsea does not affect this in this sense), a case that determines all a series of different fulfilments, especially at a tax level. Between today and tomorrow, the situation will be defined. Also because the market closes on Friday. Although in Trigoria they continue to use the utmost caution (rightly), in addition to the huge crowds at Fiumicino, it is probable that Big Rom will then be presented to the public in the pre-match with Milan. Which after the point in two games has already become a small crossroads. But that’s another story.
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