In what can be termed as one of the quickest progress ever made by a Nigerian player Vince Osuji who until April last year was playing for Nigerian Football Academy Cardinal is set to join Belgium giants Club Brugge, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
A member of the 2020 Nigeria U17 team led by Fatai Amoo, Osuji joined Swedish side Kalmar last year and immediately became the talk of the league in just 15 games. Belgium side KRC Genk immediately made a swoop for him but he was denied visa leading to the collapse of the deal.
The left footed center back is now set to join their rivals Club Brugge after passing a routine medical, and as first reported by Sportbladet, the parties involved in the deal have basically agreed on a transfer and the Belgian club is set to to announce his signing n the coming days.
Sportbladet has previously reported that Kalmar FF’s centre-back Vince Osuji was close to being sold and that Reims was one of four clubs that finalised negotiations with Kalmar.
But Reims could not meet KFF’s price tag and thus the club went instead for Malcolm Jeng, who was completed his move to the Ligue 1 club some time ago.
If the deal goes through, he will be one of the club’s most expensive sales of all time. Kalmar’s most expensive sale of all time is when the club sold Ari Ferreira to AZ Alkmaar in 2007 for 41 million kronor.
The second most expensive is Rasmus Elm when he went to the same club in 2009 for 31 million kronor and the third most expensive sale is Mileta Rajovic to Watford, who paid 24 million kronor for the striker in 2023.
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