Now that Raphaƫl Varane and Jadon Sancho have signed for Manchester United and Erling Haaland is off limits for the summer, the big transfer story is Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea.
The Blues have made it very clear to Inter they would like to bring back their former starlet, who never quite managed to impose himself at Stamford Bridge, and they are willing to pay the big bucks to get him.
A first offer of around ā¬100m + Marcos Alonso has already been rejected, but there is a general feeling in Italy that ā¬130m should do the trick, as such an amount of money would be too hard for Inter to refuse.
Gazzetta dello Sport have said as much on Wednesday, and Corriere dello Sport echo this in their columns, asking if the Serie A side could say no to ā¬130m + the Spaniard.
The answer to that is they probably canāt, and thatās despite them promising to both the fans and Simone Inzaghi they wouldnāt sell any more big names after Achraf Hakimi.
The key matter in all this is Romelu Lukakuās wishes, who ādidnāt seem different from usualā during training on Tuesday.
However, the Inter top brass are planning to sit with him āin the next few hoursā to discuss what he wants, but itās made clear that āfrom the half answers they and Inzaghi received when they asked him about the subject, they didnāt receive a concrete āIām stayingāā.
Thatās a sign Lukaku āis thinking about his futureā, not helped by his agent, Federico Pastorello, who āpushes him to think about it and itās easy to guess what he would likeā, since itās his job to make his client happy, āpreferably by transferring him often from one club to anotherā.
Should the striker decide to leave, āInter will not be able to hold him back by forceā.
Itās stated āthey will fight, but resisting would be difficultā, which was all too clear when they lured him from Manchester United.
Basically, if he is to get a transfer, he will have to make that clear, and it would then ābe up to Chelsea to arrive at the right valuationā fee wise.
