The Cercle Brugge Sentinel
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Cercle Brugge bid $4.1M for Felix Tsimba
The offer went to Westerlo this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market5 Jun 2028
Sam Hendriks hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cercle Brugge can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Cercle Brugge baulk at the price for Chukwubuikem Ikwuemesi
OH Leuven wanted more than $4.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Benigno Palacio is a medical away from Cercle Brugge
The deal with RFC Liege is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Cercle Brugge make their move for Maxime Pau
$480.0K on the table at Lokeren-Temse. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad5 Jun 2028
César Ayón arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. César Ayón has, at Cercle Brugge, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words exchanged at Cercle Brugge
Maxime Delanghe and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market5 Jun 2028
Lierse join the queue for Erick
Add another name to the list: Lierse have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Erick. The answer from Cercle Brugge has not changed — yet.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Yota Maejima stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yota Maejima and Cercle Brugge agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Squad Ibe Hautekiet falls out with a teammate over standards
- Market José Arroyo arrives at Cercle Brugge as the heir apparent
- The dugout Daan Dierckx gets it from the manager