Everton to hand star striker bumper deal to fend off Chelsea interest

Chelsea are preparing to shell out £65 million along with outcast Loic Remy in order to sign Everton forward Romelu Lukaku.

Former Blues manager, Jose Mourinho allowed the striker to leave the London outfit for Everton in 2014 for £28 million, which was a club record fee for the Merseyside outfit.

“I think in the future something can happen with the transfer market, in and out”, he said according to The Evening Standard.

Will Everton like to take Remy in in lieu of Lukaku is yet to be seen but the Blues are serious with the Belgian’s transfer.

Lukaku scored a wonderful solo-goal against Chelsea in the quarter-final of the FA Cup last season, and has scored 119 career goals already.

It will still comfortably beat the £50m they paid Liverpool for Fernando Torres in 2011 and raise some questions, given they sold Lukaku to Everton for £28m just two years ago.

Costa has made a full recovery from a minor back problem and has been training fully with the rest of the squad.

Senior figures at Everton were left unimpressed by the way Chelsea conducted their attempt to sign Stones and a similar situation is now emerging with Lukaku.

Even in the recently concluded Euros, Lukaku had a number of creative players in Eden Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne and Axel Witsel around him, but struggled to provide the answers in all but one of Belgium’s five games in the competition. “We played well, we looked very focused during the whole game against an important rival who have some very good players”.