Quote from: Distraction on August 31, 2023, 07:35:35 PM

Quote from: shogun47 on August 30, 2023, 07:37:11 PM

Quote from: Distraction on August 30, 2023, 06:37:27 PM

Lukaku has always been better for the Serie A rather than the Premier League. We have proof for that considering his past statistics.

Therefore Chelsea just signed him back for nothing. They were just fascinated with his performance at Inter and forgot about their past with him. It should be due to acting amateurish otherwise there is no way you do this.

Anyway he has returned to Italy but this time to Roma. It is a one-year loan deal though so I can't say good riddance for Chelsea. They will still have 2 more years with him in case he returns.

But let's say Roma didn't want to extend his loan and he didn't get any other reasonable offer in Europe then Chelsea can go for Saudi Arabia option for him.

At the time they obviously thought it would be a smart move to take him back, but I think taking him back wasn't what was really dumb. I think the transfer fee is what makes this idea so stupid. The money they sent to Inter Mila, which was 113m euros, is insanity at its best. And Inter probably couldn't believe themselves what is happening. Taking him back on a loan for a penny on the dollar I guess. Well played by Inter Milan.

Indeed actually the amount of fee they paid for his transfer was absurd. Why would you spend this much money on a player who has already played for your team before and didn't make a decent contribution? Just because he was impressive at Inter does that mean he will perform the same when you sign him back?

This is completely due to bad management of the team unfortunately. I can give another example to this like Manchester United's spending nearly 90 million euros on Maguire's transfer.

I'm afraid some rich teams really don't know how to manage their finances well.

One problem could also be that rich teams generally have the problem to get good players cheaper because the other teams know how rich those teams are. It's like a premium they have to pay for any player they want.

But yes, the transfer of Lukaku at that amount was clearly wrong, but there are many transfers that have been clearly wrong. One great example also is Joao Felix. Those numbers are out of this world and many of the players have never lived up to that. But I think the clubs which received the money don't care right? Wink