Leicester secure the loan signing of Ademola Lookman from RB Leipzig including option to buy to bolster Brendan Rodgers’ options on the wing as the English star admits it is ‘a great honour’ to join the Foxes
- Leicester have sealed a loan move for RB Leipzig winger Ademola Lookman
- He said couldn’t wait to get started and called their facilities ‘mind blowing’
- Brendan Rodgers was keen to sign a winger before the end of deadline day
- Lookman spent last season at Fulham where he scored four goals in 35 games
Ademola Lookman has joined Leicester on a season’s loan to bring an end to Brendan Rodgers’ summer-long search for a wide attacker.
The Foxes boss had been desperate to improve his options on the flanks and has finally landed his man, with the 23-year-old arriving from RB Leipzig.
The loan fee is thought to be minimal, and Leicester will have an option – rather than an obligation – to sign Lookman at the end of the campaign.
Ademola Lookman has secured a return to the Premier League after joining Leicester on loan
Lookman impressed while on loan at Fulham last season, and scored in their 2-1 win at King Power Stadium in November. Leicester are confident Lookman, 23, will be more successful than the last winger they signed in this type of arrangement – Cengiz Under, who made only nine starts in 2020-21 after he arrived from Roma.
For some time, Rodgers has been keen to have a player who threatens on the right as much as Harvey Barnes does on the left – time will tell if Lookman is that player.
Lookman is Leicester’s fourth major signing of the summer following the arrivals of Boubakary Soumare, Patson Daka and Jannik Vestergaard.
Lookman spent last season out on loan at Fulham where he scored four goals in 35 games
Brendan Rodgers was keen to bring in another wing to his current set-up on deadline day
Lookman said: ‘I’m delighted to be here. It’s a great honour to be at such a big and amazing club with such a huge history and a quality group of players.
The facilities are incredible. It’s pretty mind-blowing and I just can’t wait to get to work here. I think environment is very important for a player, so this is the right environment for me to work hard every single day and to help my craft be even better.’
Lookman initially joined RB Leipzig in an impressive loan spell for the second-half of the 2017-18 season from Everton.
He later signed for the Bundesliga side in the summer of 2019 but would only go on to make 13 appearances that following season.