Romelu Lukaku is back at Inter Milan after a failed season with Premier League side Chelsea, which he joined last summer in a club-record transfer. The failed move has left anger inside him, he says.
Chelsea shipped record signing Lukaku back to Inter after just one season at the club. The Blues had paid nearly 100 million pounds for the Belgian striker, who, the season before, had led the Nerazzurri to their first league title in a decade.
However, problems on and off the pitch prevented the forward from hitting his best form in London, and he was promptly sent back to Inter for the season on a dry loan – with Chelsea having no intention to call him back.
Speaking about his failed return, Lukaku revealed that he was left angered by the fact that various issues – direct and indirect – undermined his abilities on the football pitch. He claims that he wanted “revenge” at Chelsea after the London side had bought and sold him as a teenager, but, rather, a second poor stint has given him extra motivation to get his career back on track in Milan.
“The season at Chelsea gave me extra motivation to do even better than before.”
“I think in one year everyone has forgotten about the things I am capable of doing on the pitch.
“That is a kind of anger that I have inside me. That now the team has it too, which didn’t win last year, all together we hope to do better and bring something home.
“So many things. I think before, when I left, I wanted to take revenge at Chelsea because when I was young it was my team for 11 years. I had the opportunity to go back there and thought I would be a hero, but that wasn’t the case,”
he told DAZN.
29-year-old Lukaku, who now holds the record for the most expensive player in the history of the sport in terms of cumulative transfer fees, is back at Inter and donning the number 90.
In his previous spell with the Nerazzurri – the most productive of his career by far – the Belgian made 95 appearances and scored 64 goals. In comparison, his season at Chelsea saw him score 15 from 44.
