Last summer, Inter’s CEO had negotiated with ‘La Joya’ to pair him with ‘Big Rom.’ Now, he risks seeing them together in Giallorossi colors. Will the first direct battle be at San Siro on October 29th?
“Dreams are wishes,” sang Cinderella, however, be cautious because they can also clash and turn into nightmares.
Romelu Lukaku breaking through with his explosive runs, Paulo Dybala setting him up with his pinpoint assists. That’s how Beppe Marotta envisioned Inter’s attack last summer.
Okay, things didn’t go terribly with ‘LuLa’ and the crucial contribution of Edin Dzeko, a Champions League final lost against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, third-place finish in the league, won the Italian Supercup, and the Italian Cup on top of that.
But now, that dream could start to haunt him. Yes, because the Dybala-Lukaku pairing (will they call it DyLu or LuDy?) has a real chance of forming, not in ‘Nerazzurro‘ shirt but in the ‘Giallorosso’.
A year ago after Inter failed to sign him, the Inter executive said, ‘I have an affectionate relationship with Dybala; we signed him from Palermo when he was young, he’s a golden boy. Why didn’t he come to Inter? Sometimes certain logics comes into play; there were already four forwards up front. He did well to go to Roma.
Fast forward 12 months – give or take a week – and here we are in the Big Rom soap opera and in a position to see both of them in red and yellow and under Jose Mourinho also another Inter ‘legend’.
On Lukaku few days ago Marotta said: He has left a lot of disappointment, I’ll limit myself to saying that,’ . ‘Where will he go? Now the roads are starting to close. In Italy? I don’t think so, there are only 10 days left.’
But instead… Here comes the nightmare taking shape: Dybala-Lukaku at Roma. October twenty-ninth (net of any fixtures rescheduled or brought forward, which we’ll discover on September 6th) at San Siro. Mark this date. Inter-Roma will be played. It could be the day of Romelu’s return to his stadium, under the Curva Nord, which this time will mercilessly whistle at him, the traitor, them, the betrayed and mocked lovers.
