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Everton target Ademola Lookman has been left out of the Charlton Athletic squad for today’s game at Southend.

The Blues are closing in on the £10m capture of the 19-year-old winger and are hopeful of finalising the deal early next week.

Lookman has starred for the League One club this season but manager Karl Robinson has omitted the teenager from the squad for the game at Roots Hall.

Everton , the ECHO understands, are thrashing out the last parts of the deal with Charlton but the transfer is very close to being sorted.

Lookman, an England under-21 international, will go straight into Everton’s first-team squad despite his age and lack of top flight experience.

The Blues have been keeping tabs on the winger for the past couple of seasons but director of football Steve Walsh has decided to step up that interest and hopes to make him Everton’s first signing of the January window.