Report: Lukaku could stay on loan at Inter for 2 seasons

Chelsea are willing to let Inter Milan extend their loan deal for Romelu Lukaku until June 2024, The Telegraph's Matt Law reports.

Lukaku rejoined Inter on a season-long loan deal at the end of June, a year after leaving the club for a reported £97.5 million. The Nerazzurri reportedly paid Chelsea around £7 million to have the Belgian international for the season.

By offering Inter the chance to sign him again on loan for the 2023-24 season, Chelsea could collect another small fee while keeping Lukaku's gargantuan salary - reported to be around £350,000 per week - off their books.

Chelsea reportedly hope that Inter can afford to sign him permanently after the end of the 2023-24 campaign. By that point, Lukaku would have just two years remaining on his five-year contract with the west London side. Factoring in amortization, which spreads the cost of a transfer fee over the length of the player's contract, Chelsea could settle for around £39 million in 2024. That would be the remaining balance of the initial fee they paid to sign him from Inter last summer.

The 29-year-old scored just eight goals across 16 starts and 26 total appearances in the Premier League in 2021-22.