Lukaku, Torres, Pogba: The biggest flop XI in Premier League history

Romelu Lukaku’s return to Chelsea must go down as one of the worst transfers in Premier League history.

Having sniffed out the chance of a fairytale comeback to Stamford Bridge having last played for the club in 2013, Lukaku waved goodbye to Inter Milan after two seasons to the tune of £97.5 million.

However, to say that Lukaku’s return to west London blew up in his face is the mother of all understatements because he’s now on the verge of re-signing for Inter just 12 months later.

While Lukaku might have finished the 2021/22 campaign as Chelsea‘s top goalscorer with 15 goals in 44 games, the simple fact of the matter is that Thomas Tuchel had stopped trusting him by the second half of the season.

Looking like a square peg in the round hole of Chelsea’s football under Tuchel, the Belgian striker was regularly stapled to the bench in a dire situation perpetuated by his infamous Sky Italia interview in December.

It quickly became apparent that Lukaku wasn’t enjoying life at Chelsea anywhere near as much as he lapped up his two years at the San Siro where he arguably reached the zenith of his career.

And all that has led to a remarkable situation where the 29-year-old is on the verge of returning to Inter Milan on a one-year loan deal just a single season on from becoming Chelsea’s all-time record signing.

As such, we perhaps shouldn’t be surprised to see that the Blues’ doomed £97.5-million investment has slotted into a damning XI of the Premier League‘s biggest ever flops.

On the back of Lukaku’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it return to Stamford Bridge, The Sun has built what they consider to be a line-up of the English top-flight’s most expensive flops since its 1992 rebranding.

With Lukaku leading the line along with cursed