Young English players have enjoyed success in the German top-flight recently but a former Leipzig loanee says they must work hard to prove themselves <\/p>\n
Everton winger Ademola Lookman has encouraged more English players to experience football in other countries but warned a move to the Bundesliga does not guarantee success.<\/p>\n
Lookman scored five goals in 11 league matches during a loan spell with RB Leipzig last season, while Jadon Sancho and Reiss Nelson have also shone in the German top flight, at Borussia Dortmund and Hoffenheim respectively.<\/p>\n
Chelsea youngster Callum Hudson-Odoi has been strongly linked with a move to Bayern Munich in recent days and, as revealed by Goal, could become the latest English youngster to head to Germany in search of first-team football.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n But Lookman says the onus is on players to prove themselves if they are given an opportunity to play abroad.<\/p>\n “Everyone\u2019s scenario is different, all our situations are different,” Lookman said. “So I think it is about the experience because wherever you go you can say you are going to play, but you have to prove it.<\/p>\n “It is for an experience, learning new football, learning a new style, just being around it.<\/p>\n “It was different football [in Germany], but I wouldn’t say it was daunting. It was just another experience, take it in your stride and get used to it.”<\/p>\n Lookman has made only one Premier League start since returning to Everton but scored in a 2-1 FA Cup victory over Lincoln City on Saturday.<\/p>\n Despite failing to force his way into Marco Silva’s first-team plans so far, Lookman insists he is happy at Goodison Park and is determined to prove his worth.<\/p>\n “It was just one of those cases,” Lookman added. “I wasn’t unhappy. I had no choice but to work hard. It’s my job. I love to do it wherever I am. I have to work hard. I\u2019m happy here.<\/p>\n “Football is football. I love playing football and I am glad to do that every single day. It is not a case of me being sad. I am just happy to play football<\/p>\n “People said at the time I was crazy to go to Germany but I saw it as another experience and another learning curve for me. I’m glad I did go.<\/p>\n “I learnt about being more of a goal threat and showing what I can do. Showing my worth to the team – that is the next step for me.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Young English players have enjoyed success in the German top-flight recently but a former Leipzig loanee says they must work hard to prove themselves Everton winger Ademola Lookman has encouraged more English players to experience football in other countries but warned a move to the Bundesliga does not guarantee success. Lookman scored five goals in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n