40 million euros, Roma wants to buy Lukaku, 4 goals a game, he has surpassed Ronaldo Lewandowski

In the European Championship qualifiers held this week, Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku scored four goals in a row after only playing 45 minutes, surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo, the top scorer in the previous European preliminaries, and occupying the top scorer list. And he scored a total of 14 goals in this European Championship qualifier, surpassing the record set by Robert Lewandowski in 2016. At the same time, Lukaku also scored 21 goals in the all-time scoring list of the European qualifiers, ranking 4th in the all-time ranking.

Such excellent form naturally makes his current club Roma very satisfied, according to Roma local media "Times" reporter Lorenzo Pais, the club has contacted Lukaku's old club Chelsea to prepare to buy him out. It is reported that Chelsea are rushing to recoup their money after being warned by the FA's Supervisory Committee, with chairman Boehly asking for no more than €40 million.

According to Pais, the certainty of this transfer has nothing to do with the departure of current manager Jose Mourinho and director Pinto. It has been reported before that the Roma hierarchy is very dissatisfied with the current team results, and the current Roma team salary is 3rd in Serie A with 110 million euros, second only to Inter Milan at the top and Juventus in second. However, compared to the two teams, Roma are only 7th in the table, and the results are far less than the club's investment. Whether it is Mourinho or his compatriot Pinto, if they do not meet the minimum requirements to qualify for the Champions League at the end of the season, they may be at risk of leaving.

Of course, when it comes to transfers, it's not easy. Romelu Lukaku's current salary at Roma is partly Chelsea expenses. His time at Chelsea was a whopping €20 million a year, a salary that Roma could not afford given that Serie A was about to abolish tax breaks for foreign players. Secondly, it is the transfer amount, Roma is more willing to complete the deal with 25 million to 30 million euros, which is lower than Chelsea's psychological expectation, but now Chelsea is facing the FA's inventory of financial profitability, eager to get rid of the financial baggage, I believe it will give the green light to Lukaku's transfer.

So the real obstacle will only be the salary. As we all know, it is precisely because of the salary problem that Lukaku will abandon his old club Inter Milan this summer and switch to private communication with Juventus, in order to leave Chelsea without taking a salary cut. At that time, Inter Milan's bid reached 7.5 million euros after tax, while Juventus's bid was 9 million euros after tax, and now Serie A has no tax incentives, for Roma, if it reaches Inter's bid this year, it will be 13 million euros after tax, and if it reaches Juventus's bid, it will be as high as 16 million euros. Such a cost was a great test of Rome's resolve.

I am afraid that the success of this deal will have the same decisive factor as Mourinho's departure and stay: that is, whether Roma can reach the Champions League next year, and if they do, they will receive at least 40 million euros more. With the Champions League, whether it is to keep Mourinho, who has achieved results, or to buy out Lukaku, it is not difficult for Roma, who has strong finances.