THE CRISIS – In tonight’s match against Lille for the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, Lukaku runs towards a new starting shirt, a new opportunity to rediscover that goal that – Separate Club World Cup – it has not been on English soil since January 8 in the FA Cup, while in the league it has been dry since the end of December. A chance to try to convince the German coach in particular that, not being able to count on the perfect conditions of Mount and Hudson-Odoi, he should still focus on the Belgian’s physicality rather than on Werner’s speed, as well as dispelling the doubts that emerged even in a club. which in August alone put something like 115 million euros on the table for its purchase. The rumors of recent months on a suggestive and unlikely return to Inter (who in turn is experiencing a very delicate moment with his attackers), rather than one reunion equally “romantic” with his mentor Antonio Conte, today at Tottenham, are in danger of regaining momentum in view of a summer in which new incredible twists are not excluded.
TUCHEL THROWS THE SPONGE? -The same Tottenham wonders about the future of him and that of a Count who shot zero in recent weeks on the market strategies adopted by the club in the market in January: from the permanence or not of the Italian coach on the bench of the Spurs also depends on the fate of Harry Kane who, after having rejected the proposed renewal of the club contract in August, wants guarantees of competitiveness to remain, with the usual Manchester City willing to try again last summer’s assault with more than convincing economic arguments. A situation of great uncertainty, fueled precisely by the words of Tuchel, who even in yesterday’s press conference gave the idea of throwing in the towel and not to believe too much in Lukaku’s “redemption” (“What can be done to involve him more? I do not know“), a player who has confirmed his doubts about his ability to adapt to football at very high intensity and with few points of reference for the opponents of the European champion coach. the former Inter striker are not infinite.
