Liverpool has officially contacted Racing Genk about Lucca Brughmans, putting the 18-year-old goalkeeper on the radar of a club that now has to decide how far it wants to push this move. Brughmans has been a starter for Racing Genk since last season's play-offs, and Liverpool are viewing him as a possible successor to Giorgi Mamardashvili.
The timing matters because the English transfer market closes on 1 September at midnight, which gives Liverpool only a short window to turn interest into something concrete. For Brughmans, it is a fast rise from a run in the team last spring to a place in a transfer story shaped by the next move of Liverpool's reserve goalkeeper.
That is where the picture gets less clear. Liverpool can register interest without making a formal bid, and an official contact does not automatically mean Racing Genk are ready to sell. The club is being asked to weigh the value of keeping an 18-year-old starter against the pull of an English suitor, while Mamardashvili remains only close to a move to Nottingham Forest rather than already gone.
What happens next will tell whether this stays at the level of contact or turns into a transfer race before the deadline. If Liverpool move quickly, Racing Genk will have to answer a much bigger question than interest alone: whether Brughmans is a player they can afford to lose now.
