Ademola Lookman is one of the players Southgate is keeping close tabs on as he trusts the ability could graduate to the senior group, and the 48-year-old says they will battle to keep the player.
Then again, Super birds mentor Gernot Rohr is searching for a player to furnish the Super Eagles' assault with the front line, following the retirement of Chelsea star Victor Moses from the group, combined with Odion Ighalo and Alex Iwobi's poor frame as of late.
Rohr and the Nigeria Football Federation purportedly neglected to persuade 20-year-old London-conceived Lookman to switch his universal faithfulness to Nigeria and play for the Eagles at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Regardless of speaking to England at the Under-19 and Under-20 levels, the player is as yet qualified to speak to Nigeria where his folks were conceived as presently can't seem to be topped by the English senior group.
In any case, the Three Lions manager Southgate said they would do everything to prevent the player from speaking to Nigeria.
Be that as it may, the representative for the NFF Ademola Olajire said he doesn't know the organization is attempting to have Lookman in the Eagles.
He disclosed to Punch Nigeria;
“I know every country is quite aggressive in their recruiting and I know they have always had an interest in him, but he is playing and has been in our squads, the 20s, 21s,” the former Middlesbrough star told The Mirror on Thursday.
“So in terms of encouragement through game time, we are doing as much as we possibly can.”
“But it’s not impossible,”
“If he’s eligible, and the coach finds him good enough there’s nothing wrong about it.”
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