From Neymar To Koulibalyfrom Benzema To MahrezSaudi Arabia has the lion’s share of the 2023 transfer market, according to Roberto Mancini, announced yesterday as the new national team coach. Which, judging by the exorbitant costs, dealt the most important blows to the vast majority of European clubs. And not just players at the end of their careers. Gone are the days when half the world champions wanted to come and play Row TO. Today our football is languishing in its inability to open up to new challenges and remains hostage to the logic that does not allow television rights to have a decent market while clubs ask the government (which provides them) for resources from the state budget. And yet, despite a rather meager market for names and millions, Roma made a summer coup, putting an end to a several-month-long telenovela dedicated to the fate of such a top player as Romelu Lukakuexploded Friedkin To Inter AND juve. After a tumultuous history with Inter that saw him first loved with two record-setting seasons – equalizing goals against Ronaldo in his first year and losing to the Scudetto in 2021 – and then hated when he returned to Chelsea, it’s a pity Milan and retreat.
But it was no longer the same and the same player: a season between lights and shadows, with a coach who often favored him. Jacko and mistakes in the final Champions league. And, as if that wasn’t enough, the long temptation to move to rival Juventus, as if to spite the Nerazzurri fans who didn’t like him anymore. But after a few months gossip AND negotiationafter abandoning the Arab Sirens, after long weeks of separation at home at Chelsea, Pochettino, who first forced him to train alone, and then with the spring there was a sudden turning point. Greater Rome chose Greater Rome. He nevertheless chose Italy to carry out his redemption. He decided to return to Jose Mourinho who had already coached him at Chelsea and in Manchester United, about which he said: “He understood me both as a man and as a person. At first he didn’t understand me because I was a little boy and he didn’t know the background of my life. But now he knows him, he knows what kind of person I am, I will always be grateful to him, because it was my childhood dream to be his coach. Everyone has their own special relationship with Mourinho. We bang our heads from time to time, but I like it. And I think he loves me too.”
And it’s not a mystery to anyone that a video call Special one was decisive for Lukakuso that he again feels important, decisive, again at the center of the project and the challenge. The desire for redemption prompted him, portrayed by many detractors as greedy and only interested in money, to decide on a significant pay cut, nearly 5 million euros, to seize the opportunity to start over. Rome. On the other hand, the desire for redemption is the engine of all human existence. Lukaku. Was born in Antwerp Coming from a Congolese family, despite his father’s honest football career on the minor stages, he lived through his childhood in poverty. And since childhood, he decided that football should be his social support, and even before becoming his passion.
“I remember that very moment when I realized that we were broke. I came home for lunch during school holidays. My mother always had the same thing on the menu: bread and milk. When you’re a kid, you don’t even think about it, but I guess it was something we could afford. Then one day I came home, went into the kitchen and saw my mother at the refrigerator with a carton of milk, as usual. But this time he was stirring something, shaking it. Then she brought me lunch and smiled as if everything was in order. But I immediately understood what was going on. He mixed water with milk. We didn’t have enough money to last the whole week. We were not poor, even worse. I made a promise to myself, I knew exactly what I needed to do and what I was going to do. One day I came home from school and saw my mother in tears. In the end I told her: “Mom, you will see that everything will change.” I will play football at Anderlecht and it will happen soon. We’ll be fine. You don’t have to worry anymore. I was six years old,” he said in an interview.
this is a promise Romelu she kept it. Like many others in this area. Now he has to do something new. This is for the President Friedkinthat as already done for Mourinho AND Dybala he went for him personally in his private jet and took him to the capital. And the one in the crazy and passionate square is beyond all reasonableness. To the children in red and yellow scarves who are already chanting his name in the choir. Five thousand fans physically present at the airport and 45 thousand (an all-time record) who tracked the flight to Ciampino online. Hoping to repeat 2001, when the arrival of another striker like Gabriel Batistuta allowed Roma to conquer the pinnacle of Italian football. Those who have already made frescoes with his portrait in the city. To a city that, above all, longs for redemption and a return to dreams. What else is football for? Welcome Romelu!
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