Liverpool may have to pay a record fee for a goalkeeper from the Jupiler Pro League if they decide to move for Anderlecht star Bart Verbruggen this summer.
That’s according to Voetbal Nieuws, who cover the 20-year-old today and the growing interest in him ahead of the summer transfer window.
Verbruggen has established himself as the first-choice goalkeeper at Anderlecht in the last few months and proven to be worthy of that status with a series of impressive performances.
They have reportedly not gone unnoticed and a report over the weekend stated that Liverpool were keeping a close eye on him, even claiming that Jurgen Klopp had been charmed by the player.
Voetbal Nieuws pick up on that today and state that ‘a sum in double figures’ will be the minimum required to get Anderlecht ‘around the table’ this summer.
They are aiming for a sum close to the €13m they received for Sergio Gomez last summer and anything around that figure would mean a record fee for a goalkeeper from the Jupiler Pro League.
That record currently belongs to Genk colleague Maarten Vandevoordt, who is joining RB Leipzig in a €10m deal in July 2024. Verbruggen will certainly break the Anderlecht record, which is Mile Svilar’s €2.5m move to Benfica in August 2017.
Ideally Anderlecht would like to keep the goalkeeper but they accept that ‘lucrative offers’ are not easy to refuse and will sell if Liverpool are ready to offer it.
It won’t come to that, though, with it accepted that it will only take a ‘sufficient bid’ before it starts to ‘look slim’ that Verbruggen will stay at Anderlecht. As far as the Belgian side are concerned, ‘cashing in’ is the motto being employed.
