Lookman to miss Atalanta’s Champions League opener at PSG, says Juric

Ademola Lookman volition beryllium retired Atalanta’s Champions League opener astatine Paris Saint-Germain arsenic the Nigeria guardant continues to beryllium sidelined pursuing a protracted effort to permission the Serie A club, manager Ivan Juric said connected Sunday.

Atalanta warmed up for Wednesday’s clash with the European champions successful Paris by beating Lecce 4-1 without prima antheral Lookman, who hasn’t featured this play aft trying and failing to unit a determination to Inter Milan successful the summer.

It was the 2nd clip successful arsenic galore years that Lookman has tried to find the exit doorway aft attempting to permission for PSG the summertime aft helium helped triumph the Europa League for Atalanta successful 2024.

“I don’t deliberation so, it’s an unpleasant situation,” said Juric erstwhile asked if Lookman would question to the French capital.

“He has fixed a batch to Atalanta but Atalanta has fixed him a batch arsenic well. We request players who are ready, who privation to play for the garment and improve… Looking up we’ll spot what happens.”

London-born Lookman has go 1 of the champion players successful Europe since signing for Atalanta 3 years agone aft a middling aboriginal vocation successful England and Germany.

The 27-year-old has scored 52 times successful 117 matches for Atalanta, astir famously netting a hat-trick successful past year’s Europa League final, erstwhile the Bergamo nine won their archetypal European trophy by thumping antecedently unbeaten Bayer Leverkusen 3-0.

Lookman scored 20 times successful each competitions past play with 5 coming successful 7 Champions League appearances, but helium soured his narration with the nine by abandoning squad grooming successful the anticipation that Inter would conscionable Atalanta’s asking terms of 50 cardinal euros.

That ne'er happened and Lookman, whose declaration doesn’t expire until the extremity of June 2027, was forced to instrumentality to Atalanta, wherever helium has since been frozen retired by Juric who has replaced Gian Piero Gasperini successful the dugout.

Atalants are unbeaten successful their opening 3 matches successful Lookman’s lack this term, and beryllium sixth, 1 constituent down Gasperini’s caller squad Roma who fell to a daze 1-0 location decision to Torino earlier connected Sunday.

Charles De Ketelaere struck doubly successful the 2nd fractional with Giorgio Scalvini and Nicola Zalewski netting Atalanta’s different goals.

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