Lukaku, who joined Chelsea for a club-record fee of £97.5m from Inter last August, wants to return to the San Siro after a disappointing 2021/22 campaign. Only one thing can ruin Romelu Lukaku’s hopes of reigniting his love affair with Internazionale this summer: money. Take the finances out of the equation and everything would be so straightforward. Lukaku would be free to move back to a league more suited to his talents, Inter would be reunited with the striker who fired them to the Serie A title in 2021, and Chelsea would be able to move on from a player who has spent the past 10 months putting together a strong claim to be the worst signing of the Roman Abramovich era.