{"id":812126,"date":"2026-08-13T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812126\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:52:23","slug":"romelu-lukaku-fenerbahce-sign-belgium-striker-from-napoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812126\/","title":{"rendered":"Romelu Lukaku: Fenerbahce sign Belgium striker from Napoli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku has joined Turkish side Fenerbahce from Napoli.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old struggled with injuries last season and made only seven appearances in all competitions for the Serie A side.<\/p>\n

Belgium’s record goalscorer returns to Turkey where he lived during the 1996-1997 season when his father Roger was playing professionally for the Super Lig club Genclerbirligi.<\/p>\n

“It’s an honour and a privilege to be joining your club ,” said Lukaku in a video on social media addressed to Fenerbahce’s fans.<\/p>\n

“I am fit, 100%, ready to go. It is an emotional moment after many years to be going back to Turkey where I lived as a young kid, where I discovered the professional world as a toddler with my dad.”<\/p>\n

The fee and length of contract for Lukaku has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n

Despite an injury-hit campaign last season, the former Chelsea, Everton and Manchester United forward scored three goals at this summer’s World Cup.<\/p>\n

Lukaku has won the Belgian championship with Anderlecht, a Fifa Club World Cup with Chelsea, and a Scudetto with both Inter Milan and Napoli.<\/p>\n

He is the second former United forward to join the club this summer after Mason Greenwood was signed from Marseille.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fenerbahce, who have finished runners-up to Galatasaray for the last four seasons, are without a Turkish league title since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku has joined Turkish side Fenerbahce from Napoli. The 33-year-old struggled with injuries last season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-812126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}