MILAN — Inter Milan followers have been getting ready for days to provide Roma striker Romelu Lukaku a most inhospitable welcome when their former participant returns to San Siro.
The Italian league chief’s most fervent supporters are planning to ship 50,000 whistles “to use until you lose your breath at every single touch of the person who has betrayed our colors,” in accordance with a leaflet they’ve distributed.
Inter will host Roma on Sunday and far of the eye clearly will deal with Lukaku, who will probably be enjoying his outdated membership for the primary time since acrimoniously leaving Inter and becoming a member of Roma within the offseason.
Roma coach José Mourinho, who was in cost at Inter for 2 seasons, has tried to minimize Lukaku’s return.
“I’m shocked by the whole thing because I didn’t think Romelu meant that much to a club with Inter’s history. It’s a surprise for me,” Mourinho mentioned Wednesday.
Mourinho will get a really completely different reception on the membership he’s nonetheless revered at after main Inter to the Champions League, Serie A and the Italian Cup titles in 2010.
The Portuguese coach must watch from the stands, nonetheless, as a result of he’s suspended following his crimson card on the finish of Roma’s win over Monza final weekend.
“I didn’t know Lukaku was so important in Milan because what he did there, winning the Scudetto and a couple of cups, has been done by 200 players in Inter’s history,” Mourinho mentioned. “It’ll be interesting to see. The fact that he left Inter to join Roma to help his coach is considered dramatic, while (Hakan) Calhanoglu going from AC Milan to Inter is just wonderful and there were no problems years ago when (Fabio) Cannavaro went from Inter to Juve or (Christian) Vieri moved from Inter to Milan.”
There have been certainly few issues when Lukaku left Inter the primary time.
After serving to Inter to the Serie A title in 2021, Lukaku expressed his need to return to Chelsea and he was bought to the Premier League membership, a lot to the frustration of the Nerazzurri followers.
But they welcomed him again with open arms when he returned on mortgage the next 12 months.
After a combined begin to final season – when he needed to take care of accidents and a lack of type – Lukaku improved and there was speak of creating the transfer everlasting, with Inter and Chelsea reportedly even agreeing to a price.
But to the shock of many – not least his teammates and the membership – Lukaku began negotiating with rivals Juventus and AC Milan.
The closing straw for Lukaku was when he was left on the bench in opposition to Manchester City within the Champions League closing, the place his evident miss after he got here on as an alternative proved expensive as Inter misplaced 1-0.
The 30-year-old Lukaku finally joined Roma on mortgage on the finish of August and he’s exhibiting few indicators of the struggles of final season, having already scored seven objectives in 9 matches in all competitions.
Both Inter and Roma are wanting to not make the match all about Lukaku’s return to San Siro. Inter will probably be trying to consolidate its lead on the high of Serie A one level above AC Milan and two above Juventus, whereas Roma is lastly managing to string wins collectively after a poor begin.
But for Inter followers “the day of the most unwelcome return is getting closer.”
That was the headline on that leaflet a fan group distributed earlier than a latest Inter match.
“Oct. 29 is a date to highlight in red to show and make heard all the disgust that we feel towards the person who turned his back on us in the most shameful way,” learn the leaflet, which additionally detailed the variety of whistles that might be distributed. “A person who proved himself to be a little man, because before being a champion you need to be a man and keep to your word.”
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