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What’s better than a cup of coffee and the latest transfer news? Join in as CBS Sports provides the latest updates from around the world and what they mean to your favorite teams. Romelu Lukaku is inching closer to a Chelsea exit but Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling is now a target to replace the Belgian at Stamford Bridge. And in other replacement news, Borussia Dortmund are showing that it takes a village to replace Erling Haaland as they look to add another attacker this summer.
Let’s get to the transfer moves:
In the six-yard box
The biggest transfer stories of the day. These are the deals that are happening, or at least on the verge of getting done.
Romelu Lukaku’s future will be resolved soon
Per CBS Sports Insider Fabrizio Romano, Chelsea has laid out the conditions for a Lukaku loan back to Inter Milan. The Blues would like a €10 million loan fee that also includes add-ons but it’s unsure if there would be an option to buy at the end of things. Lukaku’s contract is a burdensome one after returning to Chelsea last summer in a club-record £97.5 million deal to only score eight goals in league play.
Lukaku has been publicly angling for a move to Inter, and Chelsea will be happy to get his wages off the books, so Inter have been able to stand firm on the loan fee they are willing to pay and just wait for Chelsea to give the ok and green light a move. How Chelsea will replace Lukaku then becomes the question, and, as we’ll get to later, Raheem Sterling seems to be an attacking option.
Entering the penalty area
These moves may not be imminent, but there’s a lot of transfer fire in all the smoke these players and teams might be blowing.
Borussia Dortmund are close to agreeing to Sebastian Haller fee
Replacing Erling Haaland takes more than one player and Dortmund have presented Ajax with an offer of €33 million for Haller per Mike Verwij. Dortmund have already added talented…
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