BREAKING: Romelu Lukaku moves to Napoli from Chelsea for £25m

the breaking news romalo Lukaku has signed for Napoli in a deal worth £25 million it's just been announced by the si side Lukaku one of many moves Chelsea expected to make before the deadline chief of Porter carve solico is with us car I mean I I guess this has been an ongoing saga for a while hasn't it where you know the offloading I should say of Lukaku um they'll be delighted to have to have shifted in 25 million P seems like a decent deal though for Napoli uh I mean first of all yes Chelsea will be very pleased uh that he has now gone uh basically they signed him three years ago uh in this incredible deal for around 9798 million gave him a contract that I think was worth more than 300,000 a week and the move just hasn't worked out he's been out on loan twice to Italy and this summer Chelsea's new owners basically were insistent that they had to sell him and he had to move on in a permanent deal so I'm sure they'll be very happy that that has happened but of course when you look back on the biggest transfer deals of all time you have to say this is one that just did not work out pretty much straight away I think a few months after uh Lukaku arrived at Stanford Bridge he was giving an interview to our colleagues in Sky Italy if you remember saying that he was unhappy uh in London and he wanted to move back to Milan so it has been very expensive for Chelsea but if you're a Chelsea supporter or you're connected with the club uh you will be saying look let's learn from what went wrong this time and at least now we've got a transfer fee and we've got his wages off the books and also you know other players with big wages at Chelsea uh like keer have moved on and also I think it's one of the reasons why they want Raheem Sterling to leave as well because he is somebody who's on big big money too [Music]

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