Lukaku agent reveals which other Premier League club tried to sign him

Romelu Lukaku’s agent has revealed how the Chelsea striker could’ve returned to the Premier League in a different blue jersey.

Manchester City tried to sign Romelu Lukaku before he sealed a return to Chelsea, says his agent, Federico Pastorello.

After a prolific two-year spell at Inter Milan, Lukaku re-joined Chelsea in the summer for a club-record fee of €115 million. He proved his money’s worth by scoring a cracker on his debut against Arsenal. And while things have hit a rocky patch of late, he remains an undisputed starter in Thomas Tuchel’s line-up.

That said, had it not been for the difficulties of pulling off a transfer during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Lukaku could be in a different kind of blue right now.

Romelu Lukaku's agent has revealed #ManCity showed a 'very concrete/very serious' interest in the striker at the end of the 2019/20 season. A potential deal at the time has been described as 'really impossible', then @ManCity focussed on Harry Kane in 2021.

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— City Xtra (@City_Xtra) October 28, 2021

“I think I can say without disappointing anybody that Manchester City came in the year before,” Pastorello told The Telegraph.

“During the pandemic, it was very complicated because of trying to fly to places to meet people. It started very concrete and very serious, but eventually, they changed their idea or they were not ready to make it happen.

“Honestly, it was very difficult after the first year – it was almost impossible. He [Lukaku] hadn’t won the league with Inter and he wanted to do that, and it would have been really impossible. Then they [City] focussed on Harry Kane this summer.”

Lukaku is currently sidelined with an ankle injury for Chelsea.