It was another big week of trading at Chelsea. Moisés Caicedo and Roméo Lavia came in, £173m worth of midfield talent entering the building while Lewis Hall and Hakim Ziyech headed towards the exit. Yet even with a whirlwind of activity blowing around Stamford Bridge Romelu Lukaku remained. The striker stayed away from the revolving door and almost registers as an afterthought these days: a £97.5m exile with no shirt number, no place in Mauricio Pochettino’s squad and seemingly with no way of bringing an end to his Chelsea purgatory.
Hopes of a return to Inter came and went, obliterated by anger at Lukaku’s flirtation with Juventus, and offers from the Saudi Pro League are yet to tempt the Belgian. The scorer of 121 goals in 278 Premier League appearances, perhaps he is entitled to feel he has more to give at the highest level. Perhaps, if the transfer window closes before a resolution is found, there is a chance of Lukaku rising again to give Chelsea more oomph in attack.
