CM: Title first, then a €25m move – Milan and Juventus targeting Club Brugge star | OneFootball

AC Milan and Juventus could fight it out for several transfer targets this summer, and one of them is Club Brugge’s Maxim De Cuyper.

As Calciomercato.com report, De Cuyper’s current focus will be exclusively on helping Brugge try to win the title. Thanks to a goal by Alessio Castro-Montes, Royale Union Saint-Gilloise won 1-0 against them and overtook them for first place in the Belgian league.

Since the 2009-10 season, the season has been played in two phases. In the first, all 16 teams face each other twice across 30 rounds; in the second the top six teams play for the title, facing each other twice more across 10 games.

The final standings take into account the points collected in both phases, but those from the first part are halved and rounded up if necessary. Now, with five rounds to go, USG have 43 points, one more than the reigning champions.

De Cuyper wants to win the title and then he might leave the Belgian side, with whom he is under contract until June 2028. Club Brugge value him at around €25m amid a season with four goals and seven assists in 47 appearances.

Several clubs are on his trail, including Milan and Juventus, looking for possible heirs to Theo Hernandez and Andrea Cambiaso respectively. In particular, the latter – already wanted by Guardiola’s Manchester City in the winter – is destined to be sold at the end of this season.