Romelu Lukaku

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Jake Cohen @JakeFCohen

Chelsea's investment in young Belgian talent has essentially yielded Eden Hazard, Thibaut Courtois + Thorgan Hazard for ~£20m. Not bad.

Indeed! ?

[AndersonBLUE 819]

He sends out a tweet before the deal is made official

Sums up this whole saga.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Jake Cohen @JakeFCohen

Chelsea's investment in young Belgian talent has essentially yielded Eden Hazard, Thibaut Courtois + Thorgan Hazard for ~£20m. Not bad.

Indeed!

Essentially for nothing+ profit as even if we were to have a fire sale Courtois alone would make up for that, even if he is benched for the whole of this season.

[Toli 977]

So £24 million then.

Doubled our money. Nice.

Didnt we pay 18 m or something like that for him?!

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Disagree. Ever since Emenalo has been appointed as technical director the club have barely made any mistakes whatsoever, transfer wise. We've made a lot of fantastic signings, including the Lukaku one - if you look at this deal financially, we signed Lukaku for £10m, and have sold him for £15m+ profit. Same can be said about the Mata, KDB, Luiz deals. We've more oft than not been exceptional in the transfer market in the last 3 or so years.

With the exception of Torres but even then he probably already made up more than 20m of his transfer fee through shirt sale and we won the CL-our main aim so arguably he fulfilled his purpose to.

[Pizy 18,418]

Luke Shaw who's barely done anything and plays LB goes for £30m but a match winning striker who's scored over 30 goals in the last two seasons goes for £24m. Feels cheap.

Can't help but feel we could've got way more for him somewhere else but we probably did a Mata and let him go where he wanted to go.

[gr123 167]

Could have sworn lukaku cost us £18m? Wouldn't represent much profit to sell for £24m (because let's face it, Everton are winning fuck all anytime soon)

[The Skipper 20,593]

With the exception of Torres but even then he probably already made up more than 20m of his transfer fee through shirt sale and we won the CL-our main aim so arguably he fulfilled his purpose to.

Emenalo wasn't technical director when we signed Torres.

[Korea 734]

Luke Shaw who's barely done anything and plays LB goes for £30m but a match winning striker who's scored over 30 goals in the last two seasons goes for £24m. Feels cheap.

Can't help but feel we could've got way more for him somewhere else but we probably did a Mata and let him go where he wanted to go.

Ummm, we got peak values for both players....

But than again Andy Carrol went for crazy money.

[Weckerz 3,781]

Disappointed.. expected him to fight for his spot and Drogba to mentor him. I'd say he's a coward unless José just didn't like him, either professionaly or personally.

[King11Didier 916]

Players come and go, but only Torres will be here forever.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

How is Lukaku 10 million cheaper than Borini?? bad job by the board again

[The Skipper 20,593]

Could have sworn lukaku cost us £18m? Wouldn't represent much profit to sell for £24m (because let's face it, Everton are winning fuck all anytime soon)

His deal was £10m, rising to £18m based on appearances and goals scored. He has barely made any appearances or scored any goal for us so that £10m figure would still be in tact.

[cujo101 75]

Gutted. End of.

[The Skipper 20,593]

How is Lukaku 10 million cheaper than Borini?? bad job by the board again

What are you on about? Did Borini go for £34m rising to £40m?

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

What are you on about? Did Borini go for £34m rising to £40m?

I meant how is Lukaku priced at just 10 mill more than Borini who Sunderland were willing to pay 14 million for

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Didnt we pay 18 m or something like that for him?!

It was €15m plus bonuses. So yes, Chelsea have doubled their money in the end.

[Korea 734]

Only mistake that the director did was signing a million ams....

And not going all out for cavani/falcao.