Inter in talks with Chelsea over Lukaku return

Inter Milan are in talks with Chelsea about re-signing Romelu Lukaku on loan this summer.

Lukaku, who joined Chelsea for a club-record fee of £97.5m from Inter last August, wants to return to the San Siro after a disappointing 2021/22 campaign.

However, the deal must make sense financially for Chelsea if they are to sanction the striker's move back to Italy.

Inter cannot afford to sign Lukaku - who scored 64 goals in 95 games and helped them to the Serie A title during his time at the club - on a permanent deal.

The Belgium international's lawyer met with Inter last week to enquire about the feasibility of a potential move back to Serie A, according to Sky in Italy.

Inter chief executive Giuseppe Marotta has said the club are in "no rush" over Lukaku's potential return but remain keen on re-signing him this summer.

Inter are in the market for a forward and Marotta said he "hopes" Paulo Dybala will sign for them after leaving Juventus upon the expiry of his contract.

Lukaku has now endured two unproductive spells at Chelsea. The 29-year-old's first was between 2011 and 2014, when he joined the Blues as a teenager from Anderlecht but spent the majority of his time on loan at West Brom and Everton.

He returned to Stamford Bridge last summer as one of the world's top strikers, but scored 15 goals in 44 games across all competitions for the Blues, and spent much of the second half of the campaign out of the starting XI.

The former Manchester United striker also upset Chelsea in December when he gave an unsanctioned interview to Sky in Italy in which he appeared to question head coach Thomas Tuchel's tactics, and expressed a desire to return to Inter in the future.

Sky Sports News' senior reporter Melissa Reddy:

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