He turned 31 a couple of months ago.
Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea
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This is so weird. Is he still a Chelsea player, officially?
This all just feels like a long winded way to get around FFP to me.
This all just feels like a long winded way to get around FFP to me.
Get around FFP? I know it’s Chelsea we’re talking about but not everything is a FFP dodge
Chelsea have literally been trying and failing to sell him since 2022.
Seeing Chelsea next to his name on the thread still makes me chuckle.
Has he technically spent the most time at Chelsea in his entire career?
The transfer fees and signing on fees he’s accumulated are eye watering to be honest. And it’s not a value you’d expect of a player not in that top tier of striker
I love Contes commitment to building the same team over and over
Here we go
Adios Rom. It’s been …… interesting.
We could probably have solved the whole global warming thing with the cumulative money that has been spent on Lukaku over the years.
Conte is like me playing FM. Plug in the trusty old formation, track down the players that always worked for you in the past and get pissed and quit the game when it doesn’t work.
When you arrive at the point of paying 30m for a 31-year-old Lukaku just so you can loan out Osimhen, you've taken an interesting journey as a club.
€45m for someone his age and the wages he’s on? Conte will go and ruin another club and leave them with a shit squad. Lord knows why Napoli went from managers that play great football to this guy.
Lukaku has an insane record of moving for massive money. 300m€ were exchanged for him... Excluding that deal.
For me, he's the worst transfer in PL history. 97m for a player who, 3 months later, does an unsanctioned interview saying he wants to rejoin his previous club in the near future. Then does feck all for Chelsea for the next 2 and a half years before they eventually ship him off for around a quarter of the fee they bought him for.
Absolute mess of a singing. Chelsea fans should have paid more attention to the red flags from his time at United.
Absolute mess of a singing. Chelsea fans should have paid more attention to the red flags from his time at United.
Vintage Conte signing. Even if Lukaku works for 12 months when Conte invariably storms out of the club they’ll be stuck with Lukaku struggling to sell
Of course he was a terrible signing and to be honest to get any fee is a result for the new owners. If the numbers are right €30 million added to the €13.66 million plus add ins is nearer 50% of the fee (€113 million) as opposed to 25% The wages of course are a far different matter
How much have we made on him in loan fees the last 2 years?
Wouldn’t they have just covered part of his wages?
€5.8 million last season and €7.86 the season before = €13.66 million I mention
Presume he’s lying?
Possibly but the rumour is that last season he re negotiated his wage to get his transfer.
Best rid regardless… never known such a problematic player go for big fees so many times.
Highest cumulative transfer fees:
- Neymar
- Romelu Lukaku
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Ousmane Dembélé
- Álvaro Morata
- Matthijs de Ligt
- João Félix
- Antoine Griezmann
- Philippe Coutinho
- Kylian Mbappé
- Ángel Di María
- Zlatan Ibrahimović
- Enzo Fernández
- Gonzalo Higuaín
- Eden Hazard
- Kai Havertz
- James Rodríguez
- Malcom
- Moisés Caicedo
- Jude Bellingham
The difference in quality between some of those players is truly astonishing.
In all honesty, there's more "meh" than great in that list.
Makes some sense, you get there by being traded often. Doesn't necessarily mean as a failure but certainly as a player who may have issues to settle somewhere consistently or you had a flop that didn't tarnish the perception of potential.
It would have been far easier to get rid two years ago.
He was quite a millstone in terms of a squad cost.
Difficult to know how the numbers tie up but it’s inconceivable that a chunk of the £100 million player’s value that was impaired over 2 years 20/21& 21/22 didn’t relate to Lukakus fee. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the fee will cover most if not all of the fee left to be amortised. But it’s the wages of circa £15 million pa that will be the best saving.
An expensive mistake be glad to see the back of him.
Means just Kepa and Chillwell left in terms of fees being amortised having been signed under RA.
yeah. i think de ligt is the only one you can say is a categorical success.
boehly will be buying him back next summer.
Have we got rid of this piece of shit yet?
Apologies. I figured that was referring to the actual add-ons in the transfer fee.
I don't include add-ons without knowing how achievable they are. It all stems back to Martial's Ballon d'Or clause for me
Yeah.
And also precious little bang for the huge bucks involved in the actual transfers.
(C. Ronaldo to Real is obviously an exception and there are others - but on the whole, that's a shitload of wasted millions, really, if you look at what the buyer actually got for their money.)
Yep. It's just mental. Unless Osimhen is threatening to injure his teammates or something this just don't make any sense whatsoever
He was decent for half a season, then he fell out with Tuchel, did that interview and pretty much never played for us again.
Ultimately though, it's hard to imagine we'd have had worse results since then, just basing the team around him and we'd have saved about a billion $ as well.
Ultimately though, it's hard to imagine we'd have had worse results since then, just basing the team around him and we'd have saved about a billion $ as well.
His wages need to be desperately off the books from what I've read. Don't think they envisioned the lack of spending this summer across Europe. Osimhen wants out though and has no interest in playing for Napoli
They need his wages off the books desperately, so they go and spunk 30M and 10/11 a year in wages on a 31 year old Lukaku - while not really looking close to selling Osimhen?
Trust the ADL process.
Conte's fetish for Lukaku is a bit odd. Didn't he bin off Diego Costa after he'd just won him the league so he could sign Lukaku? Only to end up with Morata instead.
Sort of - in January of that title-winning year Costa had his head completely turned by a ludicrously large contract from a Chinese team, so he threw a fit and pushed for the transfer. Chelsea refused to budge and Conte got extremely pissed off - Costa sulked for much of the second half of the year and he was far less effective. Conte didn't want to deal with him again after that so insisted he be sold in the summer.