{"id":3662,"date":"2024-08-24T23:09:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T23:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/romelu-lukaku-napoli-close-to-signing-chelsea-striker\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T23:09:14","slug":"romelu-lukaku-napoli-close-to-signing-chelsea-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/romelu-lukaku-napoli-close-to-signing-chelsea-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Romelu Lukaku: Napoli close to signing Chelsea striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Napoli are close to signing Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea after a breakthrough in talks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Belgium striker, 31, is expected to join the Italian club for a fee of about \u00a330m on a permanent deal that will include a sell-on clause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It remains possible the transfer could lead to Victor Osimhen moving in the opposite direction, with Chelsea preferring an initial loan deal for the Nigeria forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Napoli&#8217;s move for Lukaku has been driven by manager Antonio Conte, under whom the Belgian enjoyed two prolific seasons for Inter Milan from 2019 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The striker rejoined Chelsea in 2021 for \u00a397.5m but has spent the past two seasons on loan in Italy, first back at Inter and then with Roma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His return to Stamford Bridge proved unsuccessful and he has not played for the Blues since May 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea are looking to offload players as their senior squad has swelled to more than 40 after 11 signings this summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c24prmy19z3o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli are close to signing Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea after a breakthrough in talks. The Belgium striker, 31, is expected to join the Italian club for a fee of about \u00a330m on a permanent deal that will include a sell-on clause. It remains possible the transfer could lead to Victor Osimhen moving in the opposite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}