Transfer Talk. Club inquires about Juve Belgian Koni De Winter (19), Horvath finds shelter in England – Carlos Bacca continues career at Granada | Football

National champion Club Brugge has reported to the Italian Juventus for Koni De Winter. The 19-year-old central defender played for Juve’s U19 this season in the Primavera 1 – the Italian U23 league. Blauw-Zwart sees a talent in the young Belgian with a view to the future, but it is not easy to loosen him at Juventus. The club from Turin may want to rent out or sell the youngster with a buy-back option, but above all want the defender to play this season. In addition to Club, especially in Italy, other clubs are also showing interest in De Winter, who went through the youth series of Lierse and Zulte Waregem before moving to Juventus in 2018. Earlier this year, the Old Lady broke the contract of De Winter, who was on the bench in October last year in the Champions League match against FC Barcelona, ​​open until 2024. (TTV/ABD)

Ethan Horvath has signed a three-year contract with English second division team Nottingham Forest. The tradition club takes over the American goalkeeper transfer-free from Club Brugge, where he was active for four seasons.

The 26-year-old Horvath made the switch from the Norwegian Molde in January 2017 and has since come to 64 official duels in the Jan Breydel Stadium. He played regularly, especially in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 seasons. In the past two years he was mainly a bench seat for Red Devil Simon Mignolet. Horvath won three national titles with Club Brugge (2018, 2020 and 2021). Before that, he had already won the double in Norway with Molde in 2014.

Last month, he also won the CONCACAF Nations League with the United States. He saved a penalty against Mexico in the last minute of extra time, leaving the 3-2 on the board.

Nottingham Forest in England is a team with a huge tradition. In the past, the club won the European Cup I twice (1979 and 1980), the predecessor of the Champions League. Last season, the ‘Tricky Trees’ were disappointing seventeenth in the Championship.

Former Club Brugge striker Carlos Bacca will play for Granada next season. He comes transfer-free from Europa League winner Villarreal, where his contract, which still ran for one season, was dissolved last week.

The 34-year-old Colombian played four seasons for Villarreal, scoring 43 goals and 15 assists in 144 official matches. He concluded his period with the ‘Gele Duikboot’ at the end of May with a win in the Europa League. He was substituted after an hour in the final against Manchester United. Bacca had already won the second European Cup with Sevilla in 2014 and 2015.

The striker was successful at Club Brugge between January 2012 and June 2013. He became the top scorer and Professional Footballer of the Year with the Blues. In 54 games for the Brugge team, he was good for 31 goals and 15 assists.

Granada finished La Liga in ninth last season. In the Europa League, the southern Spanish team surprisingly reached the quarter-finals.

Portuguese goalkeeper Rui Patrício is exchanging English Wolverhampton Wanderers for AS Roma, the Italian club reports. According to British media, the Romans pay about 12 million euros for the 33-year-old goalkeeper of the Portuguese national team. It is the first purchase of new coach Jose Mourinho.

Wolverhampton today presents another Portuguese goalkeeper as a successor, according to British media; José Sá comes over from the Greek Olympiakos Piraeus, for a transfer fee of 9 million euros. The Greeks in turn captured the Czech goalkeeper Tomáš Vaclík on Tuesday. The Czech national goalkeeper comes over from Sevilla.

French attacker Olivier Giroud is about to leave Chelsea for Italian AC Milan, the club of our compatriot Alexis Saelemaekers, where he can sign a contract for two seasons, various Italian media reported on Tuesday.

The 34-year-old Giroud has been sidetracked at Chelsea for some time, where he is allowed to leave the club. Milan have been looking for offensive reinforcements for a while, due to the injury of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Swede was operated on the knee in Rome in June and will be sidelined for a while.

Milanese interest in Roman Yaremchuk was also reported during the European Championship. If Giroud actually moves to San Siro, it may mean bad news for the Ukrainian international of AA Gent. According to Sky Italia, Giroud would travel to Milan on Thursday for medical tests and signing the contract. La Gazzetta dello Sport knows that the Frenchman, who lost his base place at Les Bleus to the returned Karim Benzema, would earn 3 million euros annually from Milan. Chelsea would still receive 1 million euros.

KV Mechelen announced on Wednesday that it will also loan Arno Valkenaers to first national Thes Sport next season. The twenty-year-old goalkeeper also played for the club from Tessenderlo last season.

Due to the corona crisis and the cancellation of the competition at the third level in Belgium, he only played three times. In Mechelen, Valkenaers still has a contract until mid-2023.