Ademola Lookman, born on 20 October 1997 (age 28), came through at Charlton Athletic before Everton moved for him in 2017. He had obvious pace and nerve, but his early senior career needed football rather than promise, which is where the loans started to matter.
The spell at RB Leipzig in 2018 was the significant one. It gave him a different rhythm of football and enough impact to make Leipzig take him permanently the following year. Later loan spells with Fulham and Leicester City kept him in the Premier League picture, though his career still had the feel of a player being moved around rather than properly settled.
Atalanta changed that. Since joining the Italian club, Lookman has become a more productive forward, with his best league return coming in 2024-2025, when he scored 15 goals in 31 appearances. His current market value is around £34m, according to Transfermarkt.
Lookman’s career has taken him from Charlton to Everton, Germany, back through England and on to Italy. It is a route with a few detours, but Atalanta has been the spell where the output has most clearly caught up with the talent.
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