It’s in the air: Joel Ordoñez appears to be on the verge of leaving Bruges for Liverpool, for a pretty crazy sum. The Club is said to already have several options in mind to succeed him.
Joel Ordoñez seems to be on the verge of becoming the record transfer abroad in Belgian football: Liverpool would be willing to pay… 50 million euros for the Ecuadorian central defender of Club Brugge. An excessive amount that enables blue-black to break the record of Ardon Jashari (and Charles De Ketelaere before him).
Club Brugge is looking for a replacement for departing Joel Ordonez
But this departure leaves Brugge without defenders: part of that 50 million will certainly have to be reinvested in a replacement for Ordoñez. And according to the Austrian press, the people of Bruges would have a track with Wolfsberger AC.
Club Brugge is said to be one of the clubs interested in Chibuike Nwaimu, the 22-year-old Nigerian central defender of Wolfsberger AC. He joined the Austrian Bundesliga in the summer of 2024 and has proven himself as an important basic player at Wolfsberger.
Club Brugge on the trail of Chibuike Nwaimu from Wolfsberger AC
Nwaimu is valued at 6 million euros by Transfermarkt, an amount that would not deter Bruges. However, it is an amount that prevented RSC Anderlecht, mentioned at the time, from becoming concrete.
Blue and Black will have some competition and is not even in pole position: the medium Krone reports that Trabzonspor have made the most significant and concrete offer to Wolfsberger for their central defender.
