If Lukaku returned to Inter, who would Lukaku be? The unstoppable one of the Conte era or the dull one of Chelsea? Journey into the returns of the past, the good ones and the bad ones …
Rule number one of the transfer market for the champion who packs his bags, leaves one team and goes to another: never take a one-way ticket. Always better option the return, keep it there just a click away. Sooner or later the moment arrives. When Ulysses returns home after a last minute that actually lasted an odyssey, no one recognizes him, except for Argo, his faithful dog, and Euriclea, the elderly nurse who raised him as a child. In the global football village, on the other hand, we all recognize each other, so he is everywhere – more or less – at home. Take Romelu Lukaku. A year later he could make a return Milan-London-Milan. And who knows – from the perspective of Inter fans – what form the consequences of (dis) love would take. In any case, it is almost always true that returning means having to say: I’m sorry.