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Regardless of how the current season ends, Romelu Lukaku will not remain at Inter Milan next year. Instead, the forward plans to return to Chelsea.

Since coming to San Siro last summer, the 29-year-old has scored just three times in 14 Serie A games. His play has been hampered by a series of injuries in the first half of the season.

He has played a bigger part in the team recently, scoring the game-winning goal that advanced Inter to the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Porto last month off the bench in the home leg.

Lukaku was able to play the entire 90 minutes on Friday for the first time since the first game of the season, netting in a 2-1 defeat to Spezia.

Inter's CEO Giuseppe Marotta recently disclosed that Lukaku was "carrying 103kg on his shoulders" and is still not fully match-ready, raising persistent concerns about his lack of fitness.

Lukaku is reportedly wanted by Chelsea, either permanently or on another loan, but Marotta has now said that Inter will not be trying to keep the striker longer than necessary.

The Inter manager informed Sky Italia that because the loan was only for a single season, regardless of how well he performs, on June 30 he would return to Chelsea.

"This has been a season like no other," I'm obviously referring to the World Cup. To play his best game, Lukaku lacks the necessary level of conditioning.

He's still not performing well, or the player we got to see in years gone by.’

Lukaku led Inter to the Scudetto in the 2020–21 season with 24 goals and 11 assists before deciding to return to Stamford Bridge.

However, upon his return to the Premier League last season, he only scored eight goals in 26 appearances and had a falling out with the then-manager Thomas Tuchel before being loaned back to Inter.

Graham Potter's appointment isn’t expected to give Romelu Lukaku a second chance because Chelsea has made acquiring a new striker one of their top transfer priorities for the summer transfer window.

Chelsea had hoped Inter would take Lukaku on loan for a second season, but that won't happen now, so they'll probably need to take a significant hit on the £97 million deal.