Thorgan Hazard can almost certainly call himself an Anderlecht player before the end of the day. Journalist Patrick Berger of the German SPORTS 1 reports that the winger will join Anderlecht. This is a permanent transfer, involving a transfer fee of approximately four million euros. The clubs have to iron out the last wrinkles, after which the medical examination follows.
Anderlecht will have to register the Belgian before the end of the day. Wednesday is the last day that the transfer window is open in Belgium. Berger writes that serious momentum has been made in the last hours behind the transfer of the thirty-year-old left winger. A four-year contract is ready at Lotto Park for Hazard, who was still stuck in Dortmund until mid-2024. It was still exciting in the last few days whether it would actually come to a transfer. The last news reported that Hazard also had an offer from Turkey in his pocket from an unnamed club.
He could have earned more in Turkey, but on the other hand, that club in question only offered a two-year commitment under Hazard’s nose. The 47-fold Red Devil has according to SPORTS 1 finally made his choice. As a result, Hazard stands for a permanent stay in the Jupiler Pro League for the first time in his career. He came into action for two years between the summers of 2012 and 2014 for SV Zulte Waregem, but that club rented him from Chelsea.
The Blues took him over from RC Lens in 2012, where he played sixteen games in the first. At Chelsea, Hazard did not make an appearance in the first at all. In 2015, a final transfer to Borussia Mönchengladbach followed, where he flourished. in 2019 he earned a transfer to Borussia Dortmund, who loaned him to PSV last winter. In Eindhoven service he came to 13 games, in which he scored 2 goals and 1 assist. Hazard also managed to seize the TOTO KNVB Cup with PSV.
Active transfer summer Anderlecht
Hazard will be Anderlecht’s twelfth summer acquisition. Purple-White previously strengthened itself with well-known names such as Kasper Dolberg (OGC Nice), Mats Rits (Club Brugge) and Kasper Schmeichel (OGC Nice). In addition, the club managed to hire Sevilla players Ludwig Augustinsson and Thomas Delaney, while Dutchman Justin Lonwijk (Dynamo Kyiv) also came to Brussels on a rental basis. Tudor Mendel-Idowu (Chelsea Under 18), Maxime Dupé (Toulouse), Louis Patris (OH Leuven), Alexis Flips (Stade Reims) and Luis Vásquez (Boca Juniors) also came to Brussels.