Lukaku - what’s the real cost?

[dee]

I’m hoping one of the clever transfer number crunchers can jump in here.

I’m intruiged by the lukaku fail at Chelsea. Inter sold for a fortune headline fee but a year later he’s on the way back. Apart from the upfront fee (how much) how much do Inter stand to gain for effectively loaning Lukaku for a season?

 

[peterhague]

Doesn't it just depend on the contingent fees in the original deal? I've no idea what they were but it's usually fairly easy to find an estimate.

Basically Chelsea almost certainly won't have to pay any appearance or success based fees. That might leave something like £85m as guaranteed instalments, but that's a total guess. Then whatever the loan fees are Chelsea are effectively recouping on that unavoidable outlay.

 

[moron]

What's the real cost ? - every Chelsea' fans dignity !!! - did you hear them after they signed him last season ... "We have our missing jigsaw piece now" - but having watched him for Belgium and while he was in this league - I knew that jigsaw piece would go missing. £100M for what the f*ck ? - at least Grealish can hide behind his Midfield/wide role for not scoring too many goals but when someone invests 100M - f*ck me you better produce.

 

[dee]

hmmm

But the Italian side are unable to stump up the funds for a permanent transfer or even a loan move that would see them pay his £325,000-a-week wages.
And they have therefore, according to The Lying Rag, proposed a deal similar to the one they struck with Manchester United to sign Alexis Sanchez on loan two years ago, which would see them pay roughly a third of Lukaku’s wages, as well as a loan fee of £20m.
While the report states that the fee would help Chelsea bankroll potential moves for Bayern Munich star Robert Lewandowski and Barcelona’s Ousmane Dembele, both of whom have been linked with the Blues this summer, it would also mean the club would still be shelling out £200,000 a week for Lukaku.
It wouldn’t be anything new for Chelsea, who agreed similar loan moves to be rid of both Diego Costa and Alvaro Morata. They should probably stop signing strikers…
Lukaku is also believed to be willing to take a pay cut to force through a move back to Inter Milan and bring his unsuccessful stint at Chelsea to an end.

 

[StevieM]

If you want to get the best out of Lukaku, you have to play to his strengths.

Chelsea didn’t and Tuchel had no intention of.

Amusingly he still scored more than Werner & Havertz last season.

 

[Judge Jules]

I wondered from quite early on whether the whole thing might not turn out so well. Besides the fact that returning to a former club can be dodgy anyway, it never seemed to me that Lukaku's heart was in the move - he hadn't long been back when there was some interview in the Italian press which seemed to suggest he'd moved reluctantly. Maybe Inter were desperate for the cash at the time?

 

[Best Believe It]

I wondered from quite early on whether the whole thing might not turn out so well. Besides the fact that returning to a former club can be dodgy anyway, it never seemed to me that Lukaku's heart was in the move - he hadn't long been back when there was some interview in the Italian press which seemed to suggest he'd moved reluctantly. Maybe Inter were desperate for the cash at the time?

Inter have been in dire financial straits for quite the time now.

 

[RedStar]

If you want to get the best out of Lukaku, you have to play to his strengths.

Chelsea didn’t and Tuchel had no intention of.

Amusingly he still scored more than Werner & Havertz last season.

Havertz is a midfielder and Werner is one of the worst signings in recent memory, high praise indeed

 

[StevieM]

Havertz is a midfielder and Werner is one of the worst signings in recent memory, high praise indeed

They’re all shit.

I don’t quite get the excitement about Harvertz - are we filing him under “only good in the Bundesliga”?

 

[Judge Jules]

Not me. He may not be a galactico but I do rate the guy. He's a good MF player, has handled the step up to the Prem well and has filled in very nicely in a previously unfamilar role after Lukaku flopped. I'd have been quite happy if we'd landed him.

 

[StevieM]

Not me. He may not be a galactico but I do rate the guy. He's a good MF player, has handled the step up to the Prem well and has filled in very nicely in a previously unfamilar role after Lukaku flopped. I'd have been quite happy if we'd landed him.

Not at the price Chelsea paid and the wages they offered, though?l - at £70m + £300k a week (reportedly), he hasn’t delivered on those expectations at all, yet.

 

[StevieM]

In my mind, Havertz is just a German Curtis Jones.

 

[Tinto]

Not at the price Chelsea paid and the wages they offered, though?l - at £70m + £300k a week (reportedly), he hasn’t delivered on those expectations at all, yet.

He did score the winner in the CL Final, but I agree.

You expect him to be one of best players at Chelsea based on the hype and fee, and he’s not that.

If he got ruled out due to injury in a game against us, would any of us be that bothered by it?

 

[peekay]

Not at the price Chelsea paid and the wages they offered, though?l - at £70m + £300k a week (reportedly), he hasn’t delivered on those expectations at all, yet.

12 goals in over 55 games in the premier league. Not even close to justifying his fee and the wages. I think it has really helped him that Werner has been an even bigger failure and he could hide behind him.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

So if I got this right, Lukaku is returning to his childhood club after leaving his childhood club to join his childhood club

 

[Hansern]

Havertz is a very good player. Should have joined another club.

 

[peekay]

So if I got this right, Lukaku is returning to his childhood club after leaving his childhood club to join his childhood club

This saga is going to come to its natural conclusion with Lukaku returning to his true childhood club - Everton. Guaranteed he is going to wear the Everton shirt in the next few years. They love overpaying for a player who did not quite make the mark at United.

 

[rurikbird]

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Wow - he's trolling them big time if that's why he really took the # 90 ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ans-fume-Inter-giving-Lukaku-No-90-shirt.html

 

[moron]

OK have had time to think, the real cost is that they will replace him with someone who can actually score and get loads a goals. Honestly other than Drogba has any striker they have purchased worked out for them in recent years. I don't count Hazard as a striker.