What about Ademola Lookman? Inter now faded, but the soap opera is not over
Inter Milan soccer market: for Ademola Lookman so much thundered that, in the end, it did not rain. The summer transfer window has officially closed, at least for’Italy, and the all-Nerazzurri telenovela had no ending. The Nigerian striker is in fact remaining contractually bound to Atalanta, where at least for the moment he is on the fringes of the group coached by Ivan Juric. The move to Milan, which the same player so much wanted and which seemed done, is instead definitely skipped. Story over at least until January, then? Not necessarily.
Of Lookman’s failure to transfer to Inter, more or less everything has been said over the course of the entire summer. Beginning with the widely found agreement between the player and the Meneghina management, but without reckoning with the intentions of an annoyed Atalanta for having been delivered an offer at a price already set by potential buyers. The parties involved have thus become increasingly stiff, without being able to find the crux of the matter.
L’Inter must now swallow the bitter pill: Lookman is not coming, at least not in this summer. It must be said, however, that a departure of him from Bergamo could equally have materialized in the last hours of the market, but Atalanta maintained the same line already adopted with the Nerazzurri in Milan: outright transfer for at least 40 million euros or nothing. Conditions that prevented them from sinking the blow not only to Napoli, but also to Arsenal, Tottenham and Bayern Munich.
Will Atalanta thus find itself in the home of a major player of years past, but now on the warpath until at least next January? It is a possibility, but not the only one. Indeed, Lookman could still leave Bergamo, perhaps for Turkey. The transfer window for the Super Lig is in fact still open until September 12, the deadline to see the Nigerian striker don the jersey of Fenerbahce or, more likely, Galatasaray.
