Jurgen Klopp has already explained why Liverpool won't repeat £100m Chelsea transfer mistake

The list of the most expensive football transfers of all time is littered with unsuccessful signings and billions of pounds of money wasted. If it’s going far too far to label Neymar and Kylian Mbappe as flops, it’s fair to say Paris Saint-Germain didn’t make them the top two costliest players of all time merely to win Ligue 1 most seasons.

The three Barcelona players in the top eight (Philippe Coutinho, Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele) have all underwhelmed in Catalonia to varying degrees, while Joao Felix and Jack Grealish have yet to make themselves truly indispensable to their current teams. alhough there’s still time.

In amongst these questionable deals is another trade which looks to have gone wrong in the space of just 10 months. Ahead of 2021/22, Chelsea re-signed Romelu Lukaku from Inter Milan for a cool £97.5million, yet it is now being reported that he has requested to return to the Italian side on loan.

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With the Belgian’s apparent failure at Stamford Bridge despite a big money move, Liverpool supporters might be looking at Darwin Nunez and wondering if he is destined to succeed with their club. He has had one spectacular season in Portugal, but Lukaku had a much longer track record of high performance, signing off in Italy with 24 goals and 11 assists in Inter’s Serie A-winning campaign.

However, there is one key difference between the former Everton striker’s time under Antonio Conte and Thomas Tuchel. The former played to Lukaku's strengths where the latter has not.

At Inter, Lukaku formed a stunning