Roma director Pinto, who had been inactive during this summer's transfer window, finally got his mark on loan to Belgian Chelsea star Romelu Lukaku today. With the official arrival of Romelu Lukaku, Roma's weakest striker has suddenly become stronger.
This time, Roma loaned Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea, and they also paid a heavy price. In addition to the £5 million loan fee to be paid to Chelsea, Lukaku himself has an after-tax salary of up to €7.5 million. There is no buyout clause in the loan contract, and it can be guessed that Roma have no intention of keeping Romelu Lukaku in the long term. The team's goal is most likely to use Lukaku to rush for this season's Champions League spot.
Roma's reporter Filippo Biafora even revealed that Roma owner Dan Friedkin, after bringing in Romelu Lukaku, gave the order that the team must enter the Champions League. This order, for manager Jose Mourinho, is undoubtedly another difficult task to complete.
To know that in the new season of Serie A, Roma have not yet tasted a win. Lukaku himself has not trained systematically for a long time, and he has not practiced with his Roma teammates, and there are big doubts about whether he can plug and play and help Roma out of the current predicament. And Roma is not just a problem of the striker, the midfield, the defense has taken a core, coupled with the aging of the goalkeeper, it can be said that Roma have too many positions to fill.
Mourinho has previously said in an interview: "Roma are bringing in Mbappe now, and it's too late. "Last season's Belotti was signed at the last minute of the transfer window, missing out on the run-in with the team, and it also led to his dismal "zero goals" in the league all season.
Today, Romelu Lukaku has the same problem. It took him a short time to recover when he was on loan at Inter last year, and now that he has slipped even harder, he will only need more time to recover. If Jose Mourinho fails to get Romelu Lukaku back in shape as soon as possible and does not help the team achieve its Champions League goals, he is also at risk of leaving class early.