"He will not join us for pre-season." Mauricio Pochettino confirms £325,000-per-week Chelsea star will not be going for pre-season.
The Chelsea star will not travel on Chelsea pre-season tour as Juventus lead transfer race. Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku will not be travelling on their pre-season tour in the United States, talkSPORT understands. Lukaku enters the summer off the back of his season-long loan at Inter Milan from the Blues. His most recent appearance for the Blues came in May 2022. All signs seemed to point to a permanent switch back to the Champions League finalists ahead of the new campaign. However, after discovering that advisors working on behalf of Lukaku had secret talks with Juventus, Inter have pulled out of the race. The Turin side are now frontrunners to sign the striker, who is keen to leave Chelsea this summer. His future is now in limbo having turned down a move to Saudi Arabia and Juventus needing to sell Dusan Vlahovic to finance a move. Lukaku's current club Chelsea travel to the USA on Monday for their pre-season tour, but he won't be joining them. He looks set to leave just t...