Romelu Lukaku

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Coffee and TV said:
Never thought about this before, good to know though:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/football/article4670524.ece

Exclusive: Romelu Lukaku sell-on oversight may cost Chelsea millions

Chelsea’s transfer dealings will come under renewed scrutiny after it emerged that the club did not secure a sell-on clause while negotiating Romelu Lukaku’s move to Everton two years ago.

The Belgium striker is valued at more than £60 million amid interest from Manchester United, Juventus and Real Madrid, but The Timeshas learnt that Chelsea would not receive a penny from the sale of their former player should Everton decide to cash in.

Chelsea also failed to include a sell-on clause when concluding Kevin de Bruyne’s £18 million transfer to Wolfsburg in January 2014, an oversight that cost them several million pounds as the Belgian was sold to Manchester City for £55 million 18 months later. With Lukaku also likely to be sold for a profit at some stage, Chelsea appear to have made the same mistake again. However, in mitigation, the club had made a considerable profit on both players despite their limited first-team action.

De Bruyne was signed for £7 million from Genk before being sold for a profit of £11 million two years later, while Chelsea sold Lukaku for £28 million three years after paying £18 million to Anderlecht. Both sales were negotiated by Marina Granovskaia, the club director, who retains the backing of Roman Abramovich despite the repeated oversight. The Russian is renowned as a tough negotiator, with her skills helping Chelsea to make £107 million from player sales over the past two seasons.

Sell-on clauses were the preserve of smaller clubs, but are increasingly used by the elite. Arsenal, for example, made £5.6 million from Barcelona’s sale of Cesc Fàbregas to Chelsea two years ago having included a 20 per cent sell-on clause when their captain left for the Nou Camp three years previously.

Lukaku’s sale is a sore point at Chelsea as he has scored 19 goals this season while their strikers have struggled. Diego Costa has returned to form with five goals in as many matches but he has not trained this week after bruising a tibia against Everton last weekend and is a doubt for the Barclays Premier League match away to Arsenal on Sunday, when Eden Hazard should return from a hip problem. Mesut Özil should be fit to return for Arsenal after a toe injury.
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Another masterstrike from Machiavellian Operator...or was it mainly cause of stupidity of the Chelsea representatives? Anyways...we happily accepted the terms.
 
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TheFinnFan said:
Another masterstrike from Machiavellian Operator...or was it mainly cause of stupidity of the Chelsea representatives? Anyways...we happily accepted the terms.
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Or maybe the fact he is a billionaire he isn't even arsed.
 
for those saying that £65M is pricing suitors out of the market.

ManUtd are supposedly also looking at Cavani from PSG for £65M, untested in the Premiership, 28 years old so it's downhill from here with little chance of making much of that back even if he's successful. Whereas Rom is proven in this league and younger with a good resale value if they want to move him on. I know which one I'd go for if I were them.

Just think it's foolish putting a price on him. Yes every player at every club is for sale, but not every one is advertised as such with a handy price tag.
 
Given what United paid for Martial and City paid for Sterling, £65m is fair.

There is no other striker like Rom. Bags of potential and already brilliant now. Fast, powerful, tall, clinical, assists a lot of goals, has a top attitude. Plus we paid £28m and don't want or need to sell.

All factors considered, it's a fair sum. Ludicrous yes, but that's the market these days. It's appropriately ludicrous.
 

RFUS said:
Given what United paid for Martial and City paid for Sterling, £65m is fair.

There is no other striker like Rom. Bags of potential and already brilliant now. Fast, powerful, tall, clinical, assists a lot of goals, has a top attitude. Plus we paid £28m and don't want or need to sell.

All factors considered, it's a fair sum. Ludicrous yes, but that's the market these days. It's appropriately ludicrous.
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it's not ludicrous enough to put any of the teams he would go to off though.

All we've effectively done is made sure he won't be poached by the West Ham's of this world, which I suppose is a start these days.
 
BlockHead said:
I doubt Everton have had any formal communication with any other club over this alleged £65m price tag.
We don't want to lose him, he's nowhere near the end of his contract so it's a non story for me, just more lazy red-top journalism.
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Top players don't play for mid table clubs... That is pretty much the start and end of the lukaku transfer.
 
RFUS said:
Given what United paid for Martial and City paid for Sterling, £65m is fair.

There is no other striker like Rom. Bags of potential and already brilliant now. Fast, powerful, tall, clinical, assists a lot of goals, has a top attitude. Plus we paid £28m and don't want or need to sell.

All factors considered, it's a fair sum. Ludicrous yes, but that's the market these days. It's appropriately ludicrous.
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Doesn't he count as a homegrown player as well?
 

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