{"id":43149,"date":"2025-08-03T22:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43149\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:11:14","slug":"atalanta-contest-lookman-version-of-broken-promises-from-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43149\/","title":{"rendered":"Atalanta contest Lookman version of &#8216; broken promises&#8217; from 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>              <a class=\"mg-blog-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/atalanta-contest-lookman-version-broke-promise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ademola-Lookman-Atalanta-celebrate-slide.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-843033 has-webp\" alt=\"epa11685824 Atalanta's Ademola Lookman celebrates after scoring the 5-0 goal during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Atalanta BC and Hellas Verona, in Bergamo, Italy, 26 October 2024. EPA-EFE\/MICHELE MARAVIGLIA\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>epa11685824 Atalanta&#8217;s Ademola Lookman celebrates after scoring the 5-0 goal during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Atalanta BC and Hellas Verona, in Bergamo, Italy, 26 October 2024.  EPA-EFE\/MICHELE MARAVIGLIA<\/p>\n<p><\/a>              &#13;<\/p>\n<p>While Ademola Lookman talked of \u2018broken promises,\u2019 Atalanta maintain they pledged to sell him abroad this summer, not to Serie A opponents Inter.<\/p>\n<p>The situation <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/nigeria-stand-with-lookman-after-rage-atalanta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has reached a breaking point<\/a>, with the player submitting a formal transfer request, as <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/lookman-transfer-request-atalanta-no-choice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed by a long statement on his Instagram account.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He protested that the club had promised to let him leave this summer if a suitable offer was made, but that they are now blocking his transfer to Inter \u201cfor reasons I do not understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atalanta do not share Lookman version of events<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Reda-Belahyane-Ademola-Lookman-Atalanta-Lazio.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-879768 size-medium\" alt=\"BERGAMO, ITALY - APRIL 06: Reda Belahyane of SS Lazio compete for the ball with Ademola Lookman of Atalanta during the Serie A match between Atalanta and Lazio at Gewiss Stadium on April 06, 2025 in Bergamo, Italy. (Photo by Marco Rosi - SS Lazio\/Getty Images)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>BERGAMO, ITALY \u2013 APRIL 06: Reda Belahyane of SS Lazio compete for the ball with Ademola Lookman of Atalanta during the Serie A match between Atalanta and Lazio at Gewiss Stadium on April 06, 2025 in Bergamo, Italy. (Photo by Marco Rosi \u2013 SS Lazio\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calcio\/Serie-A\/Atalanta\/03-08-2025\/atalanta-lookman-club-infastidito-ma-non-sorpreso-resta-il-nodo-della-promessa.shtml?refresh_ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>, the version of events given by Atalanta is rather different and would explain why they have been so reticent to accept the Inter proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The promise was made last summer, when Lookman asked to be left out of the squad for the UEFA Super Cup against Real Madrid because of interest from Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the pledge was to let him go for a foreign club if the ambitious and lucrative bid was received.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ademola-Lookman-Atalanta-wave.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-848398 has-webp size-medium\" alt=\"Ademola Lookman of Atalanta BC celebrates after scoring his team third goal during the Serie A match between Parma and Atalanta at Stadio Ennio Tardini on November 23, 2024 in Parma, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini\/Getty Images)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>Ademola Lookman of Atalanta BC celebrates after scoring his team third goal during the Serie A match between Parma and Atalanta at Stadio Ennio Tardini on November 23, 2024 in Parma, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Atalanta would therefore have been more amenable if Lookman had tried to force his transfer to Arsenal, Chelsea or Paris Saint-Germain, rather than their Serie A competitors Inter.<\/p>\n<p>If they are to accept the move to Inter, it will need to be for the right price, a total of \u20ac50m rather than the current offer of \u20ac42m plus \u20ac3m in bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPost navigation&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"epa11685824 Atalanta&#8217;s Ademola Lookman celebrates after scoring the 5-0 goal during the Italian Serie A soccer match between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-43149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}