Ademola Lookman left Everton for a loan spell at Bundesliga side RB Leipzig in the January transfer window.
Ademola Lookman could hardly have made a better start to life at Everton following his £11 million move from Charlton Athletic last year.
Just minutes into his debut, the teenage winger put the icing on a 4-0 thrashing of Manchester City with an impudent chipped finish. But that was about as good as it got because, over the next 12 months, Lookman was barely seen in an Everton shirt.
And he finds himself in a similar situation at RB Leipzig now. Lookman once again netted on his debut for the Bundesliga outfit in a 1-0 win at Borussia Monchengladbach but has since started just three games for the side he joined in January.
Nonetheless, this does not mean Leipzig do not want to keep the 20-year-old once his loan spell from Everton expires this summer.
“If it were down to us, I’d already know the answer,” said Leipzig sporting director Ralf Rangnick in Kicker (19 April, page 12), who intriguingly was linked with the Everton manager’s job before Sam Allardyce was appointed.
“But it’s not only down to us. We have no clause in the contract. I think that we can only answer the question once the season’s finished. It also depends on what happens at Everton.”
The ball is very much in Everton’s court and, considering Lookman played just 30 minutes of Premier League football under Allardyce and angered the 63-year-old by forcing a move to Germany, it would be no surprise if the former England manager was perhaps keen to cash in.
Then again, Lookman probably has a brighter future at Goodison Park than Allardyce does.
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