{"id":67385,"date":"2025-06-05T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67385"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:56:17","slug":"barcelona-consider-move-for-ademola-lookman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/05\/barcelona-consider-move-for-ademola-lookman\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Consider Move for Ademola Lookman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spanish giants FC Barcelona are considering a move for Atalanta winger Ademola Lookman as they look to bolster their attacking options ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>According to Catalan news outlet 3cat, new manager Hansi Flick has personally endorsed the pursuit of the Nigerian international.<\/p>\n<p>While Liverpool\u2019s Luis D\u00edaz remains Barcelona\u2019s top target, negotiations with the Premier League side have proven difficult, prompting the club to explore alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman, who has one year left on his contract with Atalanta, is reportedly open to a summer exit. The 27-year-old came close to joining Paris Saint-Germain last year before the deal fell through.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoyed a stellar 2024\/25 season, scoring 15 goals and providing five assists in 31 Serie A appearances for the Bergamo-based club.<\/p>\n<p>Atalanta are expected to demand around \u20ac60 million for the pacey and versatile winger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande &nbsp; Spanish giants FC Barcelona are considering a move for Atalanta winger Ademola Lookman as they look to bolster their attacking options ahead of the new season. According to Catalan news outlet 3cat, new manager Hansi Flick has personally endorsed the pursuit of the Nigerian international. While Liverpool\u2019s Luis D\u00edaz remains Barcelona\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67387,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385\/revisions\/67387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}