Chelsea ‘agree deal in principle’ to send Lukaku to Roma and insert new clause into ace’s contract as loan fee revealed
pThe Serie A side are taking the big Belgian on a season-long loan and paying £8million following a breakthrough in talks on Monday./p
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pFormer Chelsea and Manchester United boss a href=https://www.thesun.co.uk/who/jose-mourinho/Mourinho/a managed Lukaku for a year and a half at Old Trafford between the summer of 2017 and December 2018. /p
pThe Portuguese tactician also coached the centre-forward at Stamford Bridge for a little while in 2013./p
pThere are still minor details that need to be sorted out but a href=https://www.thesun.co.uk/who/romelu-lukaku/Lukaku/a will take a substantial pay cut on his £325,000 a week wages and Roma will cover the rest. /p
pa href=https://twitter.com/Matt_Law_DT/status/1696240965093142529?s=20 target=_blank aria-label=The Telegraph (opens in a new tab) rel=noreferrer noopenerThe Telegraph/a has also reported that as well as a reduction in wages, Chelsea have inserted a £37m release clause into Lukaku#8217;s contract./p
pIt will save a href=https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/team/1196660/chelsea/Chelsea/a around £16m this season in wages but there is no obligation from Roma to buy next June when the loan expires. /p
pLukaku has been in football exile since returning from loan with a href=https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/team/1250350/roma/Roma/a’s rivals Inter Milan at the end of last season. /p
pHe was banished from training with the senior squad and instead trained with the Under-21s. /p
pNew manager Mauricio Pochettino was also forbidden to pick the unsettled star while the wrangling went on to find a compromise. /p
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pPochettino and new chairman Todd Boehly inherited the standoff between the player and club. /p
pLukaku, 30, became frustrated under former Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel over tactics and was reprimanded for giving an unauthorised TV interview and then had to make a public apology./p
pHe was eventually packed off to Inter last season and helped them reach the Champions League Final. /p
pChelsea were adamant that they would only do a permanent deal to sell Lukaku this summer but have been forced to backtrack. /p
pThey were keen to sell him to the Saudi Pro-League but feelings inside Stamford Bridge are that this window closed when Fulham’s Aleksandar Mitrovic got in first and made a move to the Middle East ten days ago, leaving Boehly with fewer options. /p
pLukaku cost Chelsea a then club record £97.5 million when they signed him from Inter two years ago. /p
pHe scored 15 goals in his first season back but was still unhappy under German Tuchel and also suffered a string of injuries./p