{"id":456497,"date":"2023-08-26T19:21:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T15:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456497"},"modified":"2023-08-26T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T15:21:31","slug":"lukaku-on-verge-of-joining-roma-on-loan-but-striker-must-lower-wages","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lukaku-on-verge-of-joining-roma-on-loan-but-striker-must-lower-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukaku on verge of joining Roma on loan, but striker must lower wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romelu Lukaku is closing in on desired loan move to Rome, which will see the striker reunite with his former boss Jose Mourinho, reports say.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First round of talks between AS Roma and Chelsea for Romelu Lukaku, just finished. \ud83d\udfe1\ud83d\udd34\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ASRoma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ASRoma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roma submitted initial important bid with loan fee, salary coverage now also being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations continue in London with owners directly involved. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WwYapRBFLk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WwYapRBFLk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1695423552785125597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have tried to offload the Belgian throughout the whole summer, but failed due to variety of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has been in talks with numerous clubs as he doesn&#8217;t feature in new boss Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, the Blues have made a demand of a loan fee in the region between \u00a38million and \u00a310m. On top of that, the striker must lower his wage demands as the team is not willing to pay a percentage of his \u00a3325,000-per-week wages.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have been left with limited options as Lukaku has refused to join Juventus, Inter Milan or clubs in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea had been insisting on a sale for the Belgian but are willing to accept another loan with a substantial fee as Roma are unlikely to be able to afford a buy option or his wages.<\/p>\n<p>The striker himself announced he is flying to Rome tomorrow in order to complete the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romelu Lukaku is closing in on desired loan move to Rome, which will see the striker reunite with his former boss Jose Mourinho, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":456498,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19170,16774,17710],"news_category":[136,14235,138],"gn_keywords":[19171,17902,380],"acf":{"announce":"The Belgian revealed he is flying to Rome tomorrow to complete the move","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456499,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456497\/revisions\/456499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456497"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456497"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}