Iran ahead Sardar Azmoun signed for Roma on mortgage from Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday because the Serie A membership tries to hammer out a deal to take Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea.
Roma mentioned they’ve introduced in Azmoun, 28, “on a short lived foundation till 30 June 2024” with “the choice to make the switch everlasting”.
Azmoun, who has 45 targets in 71 appearances for his nation, arrives after a troublesome spell in Germany the place he solely scored 5 occasions since transferring to Leverkusen in January 2021.
However his arrival has been utterly overshadowed by the potential arrival of Lukaku.
Chelsea have been attempting to dump outcast Lukaku all summer season however neither Inter Milan — the place he was loaned by the Blues final summer season — nor Juventus determined to signal the Belgium striker.
Inter had been deep in talks with Chelsea however reportedly gave up on Lukaku after they found he had been secretly speaking to their largest rivals Juventus and AC Milan.
Final month Inter captain Lautaro Martinez mentioned he had been “dissatisfied” by Lukaku for hiding from his teammates and refusing to reply calls earlier than the deal broke down.
In the meantime Juve would have needed to promote Serbia striker Dusan Vlahovic as a way to signal Lukaku, a transfer which supporters vocally opposed all pre-season and through their 3-0 win at Udinese final weekend.
With a everlasting sale now off the desk lower than every week earlier than the tip of the summer season switch window Chelsea are speaking to Roma about one other mortgage, with the Italian membership’s American house owners travelling to London on Friday to barter a deal.
Roma are at Verona on later Saturday and are set to start out with an assault of Paulo Dybala and Italy’s Andrea Belotti, who additionally performed collectively at Palermo.
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