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Romelu Lukaku: Chelsea near sealing club-record £97.5m deal for Inter Milan striker

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Chelsea are near sealing a deal to re-sign striker Romelu Lukaku for a club-record payment of £97.5m from Inter Milan.

Regardless of saying earlier in the summertime he was glad to stick with the Italian champions, the 28-year-old Belgian reversed his stance this week and informed Inter that he needed to hitch Chelsea if the appropriate supply was acquired.

The deal can be simply wanting the £100m British report that Manchester Metropolis paid Aston Villa for England midfielder Jack Grealish on Thursday.

There are some particulars nonetheless to be resolved however, supplied there aren’t any surprising issues, Lukaku will return to the membership the place he spent three seasons from 2011, though two of these seasons have been spent on mortgage at West Brom and Everton.

A return to Stamford Bridge this summer time will come seven years after he left the west London membership for Everton on a everlasting deal in 2014.

He virtually re-joined them once more in 2017, however as an alternative opted to signal for Manchester United for an preliminary £75m.

If Chelsea now pay £97.5m to get him again, that can imply two of the highest six charges paid for a participant in British soccer have been for Lukaku.

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