{"id":853551,"date":"2025-06-05T17:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/arsenal-legend-ian-wright-urges-gunners-to-go-all-out-for-super-eagles-star\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:12:33","slug":"arsenal-legend-ian-wright-urges-gunners-to-go-all-out-for-super-eagles-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/arsenal-legend-ian-wright-urges-gunners-to-go-all-out-for-super-eagles-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal legend Ian Wright urges Gunners to go all out for Super Eagles star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former Arsenal and England striker, Ian Wright, has urged Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side to go all out for Super Eagles and Atalanta forward, Ademola Olajade Lookman, in the summer transfer window, <a href=\"https:\/\/Soccernet.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gunners have been second best in the English Premier League for the past three seasons, and the two-time FA Cup winner believes the addition of the 2024 CAF Player of the Year to Arteta&#8217;s squad will make a huge difference to Arsenal&#8217;s title ambitions next season.<\/p>\n<p>Ademola Lookman is set to leave Atalanta this summer, and has interest from several clubs, but his preferred destination is currently unknown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250321_203644-1024x793.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman in action for the Super Eagles of Nigeria\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154288\">Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman in action for the Super Eagles of Nigeria against Rwanda. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Get Our Sports News First \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VagMHLcA89MZvw0Btc21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Our WhatsApp Channel Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/06\/rafael-leao-ademola-lookman-lazio-napoli.html\">Rafael Leao or Ademola Lookman \u2013 Ex-Lazio midfielder tells Napoli who would be a better signing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/lookman-napoli-juventus-fenerbahce.html\">Lookman can shine at Napoli or Juventus \u2013 Ex-Fenerbahce star who won AFCON \u201994<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/napoli-juventus-lookman-atalanta.html\"><strong>Napoli and Juventus lurking with Lookman\u2019s exit confirmed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ademola-lookman-caf-player-of-the-year-e1734423357917-768x433-1.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer ademola-lookman-caf-player-of-the-year-\" width=\"768\" height=\"433\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144285\">Ademola Lookman bags the 2024 CAF POTY Award. [Photo Credit\/ X].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to go with Ademola Lookman winning the African Player of the Year in respects of that man\u2019s journey,\u201d the 61-year-old said on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/1p7v3D0s1t7cYFAnAUgZ0z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrighty\u2019s House<\/a><\/strong> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember him from Charlton, it didn\u2019t worth out \u00a310 million to Everton, then moving all over the place, the journey from loan to this, then I think that\u2019s one of the most devastating performances I\u2019ve seen in any final with that hat-trick he scored [against Bayer 04 Leverkusen].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, it\u2019s just, I can\u2019t help but look at his dark moment where it would have been dark for him. You know, especially all those loans going to another country, and you know what? He never had no problem going wherever he needed to go to find it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144173\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-10.43.43_5cd291f2-1024x682.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"682\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144173\">Ademola Lookman with the CAF Player of the Year Award alongside CAF President \u2013 Patrice Motsepe, and FIFA President \u2013 Gianni Infantino. [Photo credit\/ X]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThen obviously, like you say, you find your place. Like Scott McTominay\u2019s found that, like he\u2019s found with Atalanta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we can buy him, Arsenal. I would love someone like him to come back to the Premier League and say, \u2018listen, I have unfinished business here so I am going to help Arsenal win the league\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just admire his journey and now he\u2019s recognised rightly as a top player, unbelievable,\u201d the one-time English Premier League winner concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/imago1045566116-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Ademola Lookman\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144718\">Ademola Lookman celebrates Europa League trophy. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ademola Lookman has scored 52 goals and provided 25 assists in 118 games for Atalanta across all competitions, and whatever club he joins next will be getting a world-class player on their hands.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/06\/arsenal-wright-super-eagles.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Former Arsenal and England striker, Ian Wright, has urged Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side to go all out for Super Eagles and Atalanta forward, Ademola Olajade Lookman, in the summer transfer window, Soccernet.ng reports. The Gunners have been second best in the English Premier League for the past three seasons, and the two-time FA Cup winner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22524,1600,2005],"tags":[7531,8401],"class_list":{"0":"post-853551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arsenal","8":"category-legend","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-arsenal","11":"tag-legend"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}