Romelu Lukaku set for Inter Milan mortgage return

Romelu Lukaku will return to Inter Milan on a one-year mortgage deal, the PA information company understands.

Inter chiefs are thought to have struck an 8million euro mortgage charge with the Blues, with Lukaku understood to have taken a pay lower to go away Stamford Bridge.

The Belgium striker solely joined Chelsea in a club-record £98million deal final summer season, however a lot of controversies strained relations with the Blues.

Chelsea’s new co-owner Todd Boehly has put an instantaneous stamp on his tenure by giving the inexperienced mild for Lukaku’s return to Inter.

US magnate Boehly has backed supervisor Thomas Tuchel over the choice to let Lukaku return to Italy.

And as soon as the 29-year-old’s Inter return is formally full, the Blues will be capable to flip attentions to wider switch enterprise.

Chelsea will set about looking for a alternative, with the membership understood to stay eager on Robert Lewandowski regardless of the Poland hitman’s need to swap Bayern Munich for Barcelona.

Catalan giants Barcelona’s continued monetary points may but open the door for Chelsea to pounce on Lewandowski’s unsettled scenario.

Lukaku’s impending departure may but level supervisor Tuchel in the direction of a extra fluid method with no clear focal-point striker.

Chelsea maintain sturdy curiosity in Manchester Metropolis’s Raheem Sterling, with the England ahead open to leaving the Etihad Stadium with only one yr left on his contract.

Chelsea’s subsequent order of enterprise after settling the Lukaku scenario may effectively be to finish the long-mooted switch of Sevilla’s Jules Kounde.

The France defender has made it clear for some months now that he’s prepared for the Stamford Bridge change, however the two golf equipment might want to thrash out a charge.

Lukaku might need ended this season as Chelsea’s prime scorer with 15 objectives, however the vastly-experienced Belgium striker didn’t stay as much as prime billing.

A disastrous interview with Italian TV in December led to an apology to each Chelsea and the membership’s followers in early January, after he had revealed his unhappiness in west London.

Regardless of a number of glimpses of hitting prime kind that by no means materialised, a transfer away now seems to swimsuit all events.

Lukaku is assumed to have pushed for the transfer again to Inter in the long run, and new Chelsea supremo Boehly has opted to clear the air by granting that change.