{"id":18113,"date":"2026-02-02T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18113"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:19:30","slug":"ademola-lookman-transfer-news-atletico-madrid-sign-atalanta-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18113","title":{"rendered":"Ademola Lookman transfer news: Atletico Madrid sign Atalanta forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Atletico Madrid have signed Nigeria forward Ademola Lookman from Atalanta in a deal worth \u00a330.3m.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London-born 28-year-old has played in Serie A since 2022, scoring 55 times and making 27 assists following a move from Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His goals included a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cw005j1704lt\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">hat-trick in the Europa League final<\/a> against Bayer Leverkusen in 2024, which secured the club&#8217;s first European trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2024, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c2dx022kgn4o\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">named African Footballer of the Year<\/a> and was also the only African player on the men&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or shortlist that year, finishing 14th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He represented England at youth level, winning the Under-20 World Cup in 2017, before making his debut for Nigeria in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Atletico, who are third in Spain&#8217;s top flight and trail leaders Barcelona by ten points, announced they had agreed a deal with Atalanta on Monday before confirming that Lookman has signed until June 2030 on transfer deadline day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He began his career at Charlton Athletic, playing his first game in 2015, before moving to Everton two years later, where he scored on his Premier League debut. Following a successful loan spell, he then moved permanently to Leipzig in July 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then had season-long loans with Fulham and Leicester City before making the switch to Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvgpy248823o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid have signed Ni&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}