Former Addick Ademola Lookman has been named African Footballer of the Year. His unfashionable club Atalanta are currently leading Serie A. He has scored eleven goals for them this season, including one against Real Madrid, their only defeat so far in the Champions League. He scored three goals for them in the Europa League final in May.
Atalanta is a mid-budget provincial club. Among the teams competing at the summit of Serie A, they are unique for having returned a profit every year of the past nine.
The striking aspect is that, mostly, they have kept climbing. A would-be superstar now leaves Atalanta thinking twice before he declares he’s upgrading to play more regularly in the Champions League. Atalanta have qualified for the competition more often in the past five years than United, or, for that matter, Tottenham Hotspur, home of Cristian Romero and Dejan Kulusevski, both formerly of Bergamo.
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