It will be a one-year loan deal without any buying options. Chelsea will receive 5.8 million euros, and the player has agreed to reduce his salary to €7.5m a year.
According to ‘Gazzeta dello Sport’ Only the very last details and contract signatures are missing, but it’s a done deal for Romelu Lukaku to Roma.
It will be a one-year loan, without any buying options, with Chelsea receiving approximately 5.8 million euros, and the player agreeing to reduce his salary to €7.5m per year, staying within the financial parameters imposed on the Giallorossi by Financial Fair Play regulations.
It was a complex negotiation, but in the end, everyone emerged victorious: Chelsea, which frees itself from what was seen as a problem, Roma, which secures a player who has already excited the fans, and Lukaku, who will have yet another opportunity to prove he is still at the highest level of European football.
The friendship between the two American entrepreneurs Dan Friedkin (Roma) and Todd Boehly (Chelsea) laid the groundwork for the deal.
A loan deal was the only way for the deal to work, a solution that Chelsea had rejected throughout the summer while negotiating for the Belgian, first with Inter and then with Juventus. Still, the friendship between the parties and the will of Big Rom brought to a loan deal.
One thing the Blues were immediately clear about from the first meeting, which lasted 3 hours on Saturday at lunch, was that it would be a costly loan, and not a single euro would be coming out of Chelsea’s pockets to pay Lukaku’s wages.
Lukaku himself gave the green light, accepting not only Roma’s requests but also those of Chelsea, where he does not intend to return in any case. And so, the deal reached its final stages.
Roma is already prepared to welcome the Belgian as a hero, a symbol of the Giallorossi’s desire to compete for the Serie A title again.
After two months without a real match and preparation spent working alone or with the younger sides, Romelu will need time (at least a month) to regain full fitness.
Mourinho intends to wait for him and later with him to elevate Roma to a top 4 finish in the table.
