From the Arab club 50 million per season and signing bonus. And he blurts out: “Hate and lies…”
between the hate and the lies are the facts. And those go beyond instagram stories. Romelu Lukaku is trying to put a tower back on its feet that he himself knocked down. He flirted with Milan and Juventus, but the truth is that today he has only one real offer in hand, after throwing Inter’s to the wind. Al-Hilal relaunched for the Belgian. He did it in the last few hours, increasing the salary to be allocated to the attacker: 50 million euros per season, ten more than those offered a month ago.
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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Al-Hilal are serious, but there has never been any doubt about that. The Arab club is pushing the accelerator now, because it thinks it can find fertile ground, to be able to enter this phase of apparent calm. He thinks so to the point of seasoning the adjustment of the salary with a substantial signing bonus for Lukaku. Full speed ahead, then. It remains to be understood what this new Arab thrust will produce in Romelu’s head, he who has always said he wants to stay in Europe. But go figure, after all he was the same player who set the condition for his future to be in a team that would play in the Champions League. So, it’s all worth it. Romelu is actually much more focused on social media today than on anything else. After a blitz in Rotterdam, last night he scanned the streets of Brussels with his telephone. The attention to his instagram account is unprecedented. “When hate doesn’t work, they start telling lies,” he wrote yesterday. His reactions take us back in time: the Inter world, to say, hasn’t experienced them since the days of Wanda Nara and Mauro Icardi. The difference is that Lukaku is not a Nerazzurri player today. His retreat did not find support from Inter: neither from his teammates, nor from the president, nor from the managers. And even less of the fans: the vast majority of Nerazzurri people would not welcome his return now.
PRESSING
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The market doesn’t have predictable times, this is an old rule. Inter now have other things on their mind, Juventus must give way, Milan have chosen other ways. Lukaku travels alone today. But the lunge of Al-Hilal, confirmed and retouched in the last few hours, has already produced a result. Chelsea are running out of patience. In London they don’t want to drag things out too long. The English club had in their hands an overall offer of 40 million from Inter which went down the drain. And now he has another, even more satisfactory one on the table, namely the 50 million that Al-Hilal would also guarantee to the London club. That is why now they are pressing Lukaku and his entourage to make a decision, so that this impasse situation can be overcome quickly. Pochettino’s team has no great desire to start the Premier League – the start is scheduled for August 11 – with the redundancy situation still on the high seas. There is still time, of course. But basically, not too much. The Blues don’t look kindly on a last minute solution. And certainly, today it is unthinkable to imagine that Lukaku – with a coup de theater – could leave on loan perhaps at the end of August, after two different companies have offered millionaire solutions to the London club for the definitive purchase.
IN PARIS
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Romelu can wait, but in London they can’t take it anymore. Already last summer they met his desire to return to Inter, only 12 months after leaving Milan. Having to deal with the same problem again a year later doesn’t make Boehly’s company happy. That’s why Al-Hilal hopes, this explains the reason for the new thrust. After all, it was Lukaku himself – with his men – who met the Arab club in the luxurious George V hotel in Paris. It’s been a month since then. Romelu was already offering himself to other clubs, while he asked Inter to do everything to buy his card. Between the hate and the lies, these too are facts. Waiting for the next episodes.
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