Fulham rave of the moment Ademola Lookman won’t turn his back on his application to switch allegiance from England to Nigeria at senior international level.
According to Tunde Adelakun, the chief scout of the coach of the senior national team Gernot Rohr, they are waiting for FIFA to complete the process of the switch before handing him a call up.
“Lookman has applied for the switch and all the documents are in order,” Adelakun said, as per AOI last year.
“It’s a positive step forward when he made his commitment to Nigeria and we are just waiting for a Fifa clearance.
“Once the go-ahead is sorted, it will be up to coach Gernot Rohr to decide if his club performance would earn him a call-up”.
His form with Fulham were he is on loan from German side RB Leipzig has led to talks of the 22 making a u-turn on his earlier decision which was made while he was struggling to make an impression with RB Leipzig.
That notion has been squashed by a representative of the forward “ No going back on that. I’m not sure it’s even possible to halt the process without any strong reasons. All documents from Lookman have been signed it’s about FIFA and the English FA doing their own bit”, he said.
He went further to say same situation holds for Lookman’s teammate at Fulham Tosin Adarabiyio who has also indicated his interest to play for Nigeria at senior level despite representing England at various age grade levels.
“ Tosin is in as well and the expectation is that his own won’t take much time like Lookman since he didn’t play in any competitive game or tournament for England at youth level “.