Romelu Lukaku, it’s now official

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Romelu Lukaku, now è official

After a very long negotiation, Romelu Lukaku è officially moved to Napoli. Strongly desired by Antonio Conte, Big Rom will have the task of replacing the departing Victor Osimhen, contended by Chelsea and Al-Ahli.

This is the note of Napoli on X: "SSC Napoli formalizes the purchase of the sporting performance on a permanent basis of Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea. Antonio Conte è the coach under whom Romelu Lukaku has scored the most goals in Europe’s top five leagues: 47 goals in 72 appearances, averaging one goal every 125 minutes played. Romelu Lukaku has scored at least 10 goals in 11 of the last 12 seasons (since 2012/13) in the five major European leagues (the only exception being the eight goals with Chelsea in 2021/22), in the period under consideration only Robert Lewandowski è went into double figures more times than the Belgian striker in the five major continental tournaments (12). Romelu Lukaku has collected a total of 129 appearances and 70 goals in Serie A; his most prolific season in the competition è was 2020/21 (24 goals), under Antonio Conte at Inter's Inter".

The announcement è came during the press conference of Antonio Conte, who after the beautiful victory against Bologna hopes to repeat it also with Parma: "I am getting to know the environment, we must always find the right balance and I always emphasize it, because the fans and the team must not get carried away by the positive or negative moment, but understand that è started a rebuilding work on a base from which to start again. Let us not get carried away by the results, but look at the work to be done during this journey. The goal è to create a solid foundation that can last over time" he said.

"I have already got my players’ antennae up about this game, they are a fit team with great energy. We will have to have the intelligence to attack in the right way, being careful because Parma è Parma è good at regrouping and restarting like rockets. It will be&eagrave; more difficult than against Bologna".

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