Bundesliga outfit RB Leipzig have reportedly offered a club-record fee for Everton’s Ademola Lookman.
The Mirror reported on Sunday evening that RB Leipzig have offered a club record £24.5million for Everton’s Ademola Lookman.
That’s still £5.5million short of the Toffee’s reported asking price but it would represent some brilliant business from the club.
Lookman is certainly a talented player and one that Everton are clearly unhappy to lose, considering their firm negotiation position.
The 20-year-old hasn’t quite stepped up for Everton the way he did for Leipzig last season, however, and he doesn’t have a key role in the side in the way that a £24.5million fee would usually suggest.
Any loss he would be to the side is purely potential at this point – and that potential isn’t as likely or as important as it used to be now that Bernard and Richarlison have joined the club.
Richarlison, in particular, is only a year older than Lookman but has already established himself in the Premier League.
And so what Everton are faced with is the 21st largest fee in Bundesliga history, a club record for Leipzig, and the most expensive signing by any German side that isn’t Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, or Wolfsburg.
It’s a hell of a deal for a player you may never see the best of anyway – and if Everton do indeed get a little closer to that £30million figure, it will be a brilliant piece of business.
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