Just 10 months and nine days since his dream £97.5million homecoming, the second chapter of Romelu Lukaku's doomed Chelsea story is as good as over.
Thomas Tuchel was meant to have found the missing piece of his Blues jigsaw when the Belgian striker, fresh from inspiring Inter Milan to their first Scudetto in a decade, returned to west London for a club-record fee last August.
But now, less than a year later, Inter are on the verge of re-signing the Premier League's second most expensive player on loan for peanuts after a disastrous first season back at Stamford Bridge.