Inter confirm Lukaku loan from Chelsea with bizarre Shakespeare sonnet
Inter Milan confirm Romelu Lukaku loan signing with a BIZARRE video featuring a William Shakespeare sonnet… as Belgian striker returns less than a year after leaving for Chelsea in a £98m deal
- Chelsea confirmed Romelu Lukaku had joined Inter Milan on loan at end of June
- But the Italian side delayed formally announcing the deal which runs for a year
- Inter revealed the signing on Tuesday night with a video featuring the striker
- The video is accompanied by the words from William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 109
Inter Milan have officially confirmed the loan signing of Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea using a bizarre video that features the striker along with the words from a sonnet by William Shakespeare.
Lukaku’s move to the Italian giants was as good as completed at the end of June when Chelsea confirmed that their £98million buy from the Serie A side last summer was on his way back to the San Siro in a temporary switch for one season at a cost of £6.9million.
But Inter have left it late to officially unveil him to supporters, before uploading a video to welcome him to the club on Tuesday night.
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Inter Milan have finally confirmed the loan signing of Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea
The Italian club unveiled a video with the striker and words to a William Shakespeare sonnet
The video contains the striker sitting facing a camera, with frequent cut-away clips to his previous spell at the Italian club where his goals helped power them to the 2020-21 league title.
Alongside the images, the words of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 109 are spoken and appear on screen.
The 70-second clip then cuts to a beaming Lukaku saying ‘I’m Romelu, I’m Inter’ in its conclusion.
Inter posted the video onto the website as well as their Twitter account, with a caption reading ‘Thank you to William Shakespeare for the words. Oh Romelu, Romelu, welcome home.’
Lukaku only left Inter Milan last summer to join Chelsea in a deal worth £98million
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNET 109
O, never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify.
As easy might I from myself depart
As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels I return again,
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe, though in my nature reign’d
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stain’d,
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;
For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.
After departing Inter last summer for Chelsea, Lukaku endured a season to forget at Stamford Bridge as his form suffered and he developed a frosty relationship with manager Thomas Tuchel due to the tactics the Blues deployed.
The 29-year-old notched just eight Premier League goals in the 2021-22 campaign, failing to live up to the performances expected of the former Manchester United striker.
Lukaku’s first spell at Inter began in the summer of 2019 and he fired Antonio Conte’s side to the Scudetto in the 2020-21 season, scoring 24 goals in Serie A.
Fitness issues and his infamous Sky Italia interview, released in December and where he admitted he was ‘not happy’ at Chelsea led to his downfall at the club.
Lukaku endured a torrid time at Stamford Bridge after his £98m move from Inter last summer
Lukaku still has four years left on his contract at Stamford Bridge but stated a desire to return to the San Siro in the explosive interview over the festive period.
Lukaku stunned Chelsea six months ago by saying he’s ‘not happy with the situation’ at the club he left the Italian giants for, as well as keeping the door open to a return.
Inter fans were furious at the striker’s departure at the time and his comments only ramped up the tension between ultra supporters Curva Nord and the centre forward.
Romelu Lukaku has completed a sensational return to Inter Milan on loan from Chelsea
Inter Milan fans show all is forgiven as they give striker Lukaku a rapturous reception
‘I think everything that happened last summer was not supposed to happen like this… how I left Inter, the way I left the club, how I communicated with Inter fans – this bothers me because it was not the right time,’ he said in an interview with Sky Sport Italia.
‘Now it’s the right time to share my feelings. I have always said that I have Inter in my heart: I know I will return to Inter, I really hope so. I am in love with Italy, this is right moment to talk and let people know what really happened.
‘I really hope from bottom of my heart to return to Inter not at the end of my career, but when I’m still at top level to win more together.
It came as a surprise after the ultras urged their fellow supporters not to welcome the striker
Inter’s Curva Nord ultras released a statement saying Lukaku ‘betrayed’ the club
‘I want apologise to the Inter fans, the timing of my words was wrong: what you did for me will remain forever.’
However Inter supporters gathered to show all is forgiven as they gave Lukaku a rapturous reception at his medical.
The masses of supporters perhaps came as a surprise after the Inter ultras previously urged their fellow fans not to welcome the striker with their flags and scarves upon his return to Italy after he betrayed the club, but that seemed to be forgotten about when he arrived.
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