Overview
- Liverpool confirmed on Tuesday that they have signed 18-year-old Lucca Brughmans from KRC Genk for a reported package worth about £30 million including add-ons.
- Brughmans has signed a six-year deal but will remain at Genk on loan for the 2026–27 season with media reports that Liverpool may hold an option to recall him in January.
- The 2.00m (6ft 7in) Belgian has captained his country at youth level and has already made first-team appearances for Genk, where the club praised his potential in an official message.
- The transfer is being treated as planned succession rather than an immediate replacement because Alisson remains the club’s first-choice goalkeeper and Giorgi Mamardashvili has stayed at Liverpool for now.
- The move fits Liverpool’s Global Talent recruitment model of buying elite teenagers early and loaning them back to develop, a strategy led by Matt Newberry and used in several recent signings.