Ever since the season ended following Chelsea’s Champions League win, the Blues have been looking for a striker.
The Timo Werner experiment didn’t really work out, and Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland was placed at the top of Thomas Tuchel’s wishlist.
Roman Abramovich appears to have done his best to get his manager the Norwegian, but the Bundesliga side have held firm, meaning alternatives have been looked at.
Among those is a player Chelsea know very well in Romelu Lukaku, as they were the ones who brought the Belgian to England from Anderlecht many years ago.
A first attempt was reportedly made last week, which we covered, and Gianluca Di Marzio is now claiming a second is in the pipeline.
The journalist, on his website, states ‘the calls from London are becoming more and more insistent’, after an offer of €100m + Marcos Alonso was pushed back, with Inter ‘at the moment managing to resist Abramovich’s proposal’.
Chelsea, however, are ‘ready to counterattack’, with the Blues’ ‘revival’ reportedly ready to ‘reach €120m’, and if the figures are deemed acceptable ‘without the inclusion of technical counterparts’, then ‘saying no would become really difficult’.
As for Lukaku in all of this, he’s reportedly ‘not yet said no to the call of the Blues’ and ‘Romelu thinks about it’, especially with talk of ‘downsizing’ Inter’s squad.
One to keep an eye on, certainly.
