Nothing to do with Inter. They sold that debt to a bank last summer because they needed the cash. Chelsea is paying the remaining fees to that bank.
Barcelona bought Coutinho for 135M... 15 months later he was on loan for 6% of that. When you've made a mistake, it is smarter to acknowledge you did and try to move on.
That was a terrible deal by Barca. They sent him on loan to a CL rival who helped knock Barca out. Bayern then declined to actually sign him on a permanent deal. We should learn from that and do something different instead of repeating Barca's embarrassing decisions.
The terrible deal was spending 135M on a player not suited for their game (he is not suited for anything outside PL actually) Loaning him out to Bayern meant Barça could spare some money. And if he had done a good job Bayern or someone else would have bought him.
It all depends on the alternatives, right?
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Quite the conundrum.
That's your original mistake, letting him leave.
£100m depreciation in less than a year!
Chelsea won't have paid the whole transfer fee yet so Inter can surely just give them back what they've paid with a sweetener on top?
Inter really have no money or chances to reset the former deal
Chelsea would (and should) 100% rather keep him and try to make it work than give him away for free or peanuts. The only unknown here is Lukaku. If he creates a problem within the club, then yeah Chelsea would have to deal with that and it puts the club in a tough position but as long as he's willing to be a pro and show up for training, be a harmonious member of the squad etc keeping him will always be the preferred option than giving him to Inter for free.
Are there teams that will want to pay a significant fee for him? What sort of fee are Chelsea even expecting?
No. He hasn’t done it publicly and he is only lowering them to go back to Inter. Not West Ham or Newcastle.
Is this the same Lukaku we're talking about?
Depends on if he wants to be the point of emphasis on a team or ride the bench. I think this whole game he is playing with Inter is just building his resolve to leave for just about anywhere that will stroke his fragile ego.
I mean I have seen nothing to suggest he's going to be a cancer in the dressing room. But in the event he does become one, I'm a super petty guy, I'd let him rot in the reserves for 4 years
You didn’t give them 100m. You bought an asset you thought was worth 100m
You didn't give them £100m, you gave them a lump sum last year and will continue to give them further lump sums over the next 4 years until the £100m is paid off. However, if I were making the decisions at Chelsea, I'd send him back to Inter for half what you gave them last season and get his wages off the books, as well as making it public how much of a twat he is behind the scenes.
Have you considered looking at what he did during the last world cup when he was at United? You're going to be pretty disappointed with the result
Imagine we still had him, Pogba and Lingard around the place? Nightmare fuel
Inter got 22 M last year from Chelsea, and they are getting the rest from a factoring company. They had to do that, otherwise they could have failed to pay wages on time this season. To imagine Inter investing 60M on a 30-year old forward in this economy is just science fiction.
I somehow think those payments won't go through and he'll return to Inter for next to nothing, or they'll do some creative accounting like when Barcelona and Juventus swapped Arthur for Pjanic
Shouldn’t this part worry you more than anything else? You desperately needed Haaland, but you’re stuck with Werner and Lukaku.
Chilling stuff.
Needs context. He statpadded with goals vs Chesterfield, Middlesbrough, Luton, Al Hilal and Palmeiras
It does, but what I’m trying to say is that Lukaku isn’t a complete and total waste of a squad place even in poor form. He will always get you goals against shite teams which can be a valuable asset. It’s not one of those situations where a striker will go 20 matches without scoring a goal and is actively hurting the team.
That's only possible when you agree on a relative value. Barça and Juve agreed on the formula (Arthur = Pjanic + €16M). Only then could they add whatever they want to the price of both players. And it seemed fair at the time, as both wanted to part ways with these players (Juventus wanted rid of Pjanic's high wage and Barça had to sell Arthur who was refusing to extend).
He’s a complete headcase and so is the person who thought it would be worth paying 100m to bring him back to the PL. No heart and no brain he needs to visit the wizard of oz or whoever it was that was giving them out.
Another one bites the dust. Sigh.
