Jury to Looman: I'm not the one to pray for a game.

Lookman hasn't played a single official game, nor has he played in summer friendlys with Atalanta since the end of the 2024-25 season. He saw that his transfer to Inter failed during the summer mets, which brought a series of unpleasant events, including official expulsion requests, publishing a statement against the club, and returning to the United Kingdom to train individually for a few weeks.

Lookman returned to Atalanta five days before the start of the 2025-26th season in Serie A, but has since remained out of Juric's plans. Although it was reported Friday that Atalanta's coach was thinking to include Lookman in the match against Lecces, Juric confirmed that this would not happen.

“Ademola will not be ready for tomorrow,” Juric said at the press conference before the match.

“A truly unpleasant and difficult situation,” he added. “As a coach, I thought we needed other things: Honey, humility, passion for the lantern. We should do better and take responsibility. You must feel belonging. ”

I have a very good relationship with Lookman,”, Juric stressed. “But I shouldn't ask him to play. It's the opposite. We are Atalanta and he represents the city. We need what Atalanta represents: Strong work, humility, these are different values.

I shouldn't beg anyone. We are all convinced that Atalanta needs strong personal values./Periscopi/