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Lukaku joins Chelsea from Inter Milan on five-year deal

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Romelu Lukaku becomes Chelsea’s record signing. Photograph: Chelsea FC

Romelu Lukaku is a familiar face to Premier League viewers, but the player who completed a 97.5 million pounds ($134.7 million)return to Chelsea on Thursday is, by his own admission, not the same one who departed England two years ago.

“Italy has brought me to another level. I have never felt this strong. I have reached another level, physically and mentally,” Lukaku said in May.

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