{"id":489850,"date":"2019-07-25T04:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T08:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=489850"},"modified":"2019-07-25T04:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T08:43:53","slug":"everton-ademola-lookman-rb-leipzig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/25\/everton-ademola-lookman-rb-leipzig\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton Winger Ademola Lookman Completes Move to RB Leipzig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RB Leipzig have <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/football-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed<\/a> winger <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/7c104bb7\/Ademola-Lookman\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ademola Lookman<\/a> on a five-year contract for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/ademola-lookmans-rb-leipzig-transfer-16641453\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a322.5 million<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everton<\/a>. This contract will see the player stay with the club until 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">L?k who&#8217;s back! \u2764\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alookman_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Alookman_<\/a> has signed a 5-year contract and is here to stay \u270d\ufe0f?<\/p>\n<p>?\u26aa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DieRotenBullen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DieRotenBullen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y36GI2KdDQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/y36GI2KdDQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RB Leipzig English (@RBLeipzig_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBLeipzig_EN\/status\/1154304148550164480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>RB Leipzig Complete Signing of Ademola Lookman<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Everton and RB Leipzig have agreed on a deal after being locked in talks.<\/p>\n<p>The German side are understood to have met Everton&#8217;s asking price for the 21-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman had wanted to join Leipzig on a permanent deal last summer after spending half a season on loan; however, Marcel Brands and Marco Silva both insisted the winger was not for sale and so rejected Leipzig&#8217;s offers.<\/p>\n<p>The former Charlton winger has struggled to break into the first team on a regular basis at Goodison Park. The 21-year-old made only three starts in the Premier League last season.<\/p>\n<h3>Championship Charlton To Benefit<\/h3>\n<p>Charlton Athletic could benefit from an initial \u00a31.3 million windfall following Ademola Lookman&#8217;s move to RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/charlton-set-to-bank-13m-as-ademola-lookman-closes-in-on-rb-leipzig-transfer-a4196001.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evening Standard<\/a>, Charlton are due 15% of any profit on the \u00a37.5 million deal which saw Lookman move to Everton in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman came through the academy at Charlton and made 49 appearances for the Addicks before moving to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<h3>Following in Footsteps to Bundesliga<\/h3>\n<p>Lookman&#8217;s move to Germany is the latest in a series of English players heading into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few seasons, a number of young English players have moved to Germany in the belief of more playing time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/dbf053da\/Jadon-Sancho\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jadon Sancho<\/a> has been the headline star in the Bundesliga after his performances at Borussia Dortmund culminated in him breaking into the England team.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal duo <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c5bdb6e3\/Reiss-Nelson\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reiss Nelson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/17695062\/Emile-Smith-Rowe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emile Smith-Rowe<\/a> were also on loan at Hoffenheim and Leipzig respectively last season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Me1xtUZjSaFd2IiqG_5tJg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1143752303\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Me1xtUZjSaFd2IiqG_5tJg',sig:'wrcAEqSEgZn5T7D5gaAyCQ7PVZG0y5rnODQjBmi_bRY=',w:'594px',h:'418px',items:'1143752303',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RB Leipzig have signed winger Ademola Lookman on a five-year contract for \u00a322.5 million from Everton. This contract will see the player stay with the club until 2024. L?k who&#8217;s back! \u2764\ufe0f@Alookman_ has signed a 5-year contract and is here to stay \u270d\ufe0f? ?\u26aa #DieRotenBullen pic.twitter.com\/y36GI2KdDQ \u2014 RB Leipzig English (@RBLeipzig_EN) July 25, 2019 RB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":489852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,3,28],"tags":[780,51,866,40,620,136],"class_list":["post-489850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-everton","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-ademola-lookman","tag-bundesliga","tag-marco-silva","tag-premier-league","tag-rb-leipzig","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}