{"id":82370,"date":"2026-02-01T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82370"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:00:40","slug":"lookman-close-to-e40m-move-to-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/01\/lookman-close-to-e40m-move-to-atletico-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Lookman Close to \u20ac40m Move to Atl\u00e9tico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian forward Ademola Lookman is set to join Atl\u00e9tico Madrid from Atalanta in a \u20ac40 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer includes a \u20ac35 million upfront fee and \u20ac5 million in performance-based add-ons, with personal terms already agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old, in impressive form for Atalanta, will travel to Spain for medicals before the move is officially confirmed.<br \/>\nLookman is expected to play a key role in Diego Simeone\u2019s squad as Atl\u00e9tico bolster their attack.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, pending final formalities, highlights another milestone for Nigerian football in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nigerian forward Ademola Lookman is set to join Atl\u00e9tico Madrid from Atalanta in a \u20ac40 million deal. The transfer includes a \u20ac35 million upfront fee and \u20ac5 million in performance-based add-ons, with personal terms already agreed. The 26-year-old, in impressive form for Atalanta, will travel to Spain for medicals before the move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82370","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\/82370","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=82370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82372,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82370\/revisions\/82372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}