With Vincent Mannaert as architect, Club Brugge has changed the transfer landscape in Belgium in recent years.
Especially since the successful 2019-2020 season, the CEO of the Bruges club has increasingly made record transfers. The sale of Wesley Moraes for 25 million euros to Aston Villa was the first of many files that would usher in an era of lucrative outgoing transfers.
A positive evolution that reached its peak with the sale of Charles De Ketelaere to AC Milan. The youth product yielded a lump sum payment of 36.5 million euros. The most expensive outgoing transfer ever in Belgium.
From that moment on, it was no longer symbolic that Club Brugge had pushed the upper limit in Belgium under the impetus of its ambitious CEO.
View the top 10 most expensive outgoing transfers from Club Brugge below, all sealed with a signature from Mannaert.
The more money came in, the more Club Brugge started to spend. But not always with equal success.
The transfer of Simon Mignolet is an unqualified success for the club, but Club Brugge has not yet been able to really capitalize on its most recent record transfers in the last transfer periods.
Vincent Mannaert has had little success in recent years, especially in the striker position. Roman Jaremchuk became a black mark on Mannaert’s record with his 17 million euros, but Kamal Sowah and David Okereke also did not deliver what Club expected.
View the 10 most expensive incoming transfers from Club Brugge, all of which also happened under Mannaert.
