{"id":123,"date":"2026-09-24T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=123"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:29:07","slug":"record-breaking-youngster-seemed-destined-for-real-madrid-until-decisive-liverpool-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking youngster seemed destined for Real Madrid until decisive Liverpool intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool reportedly beat Real Madrid to the signing of highly-rated Belgian goalkeeper Lucca Brughmans after making a decisive late move.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old had appeared destined for Madrid, where he was expected to follow in the footsteps of his idol Thibaut Courtois. However, Liverpool\u2019s recruitment team sold him on a clear pathway to the first team.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds agreed a deal with Genk that could rise to around \u00a330m, with Brughmans remaining in Belgium before joining Liverpool next summer.<\/p>\n<p>At 6ft 7in, the teenager is viewed as a potential long-term successor to Alisson, although he will face competition from Giorgi Mamardashvili.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Liverpool reportedly beat Real Madrid to the signing of highly-rated Belgian goalkeeper Lucca Brughmans after making a decisive late move. The 18-year-old had appeared destined <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=123\" title=\"Record-breaking youngster seemed destined for Real Madrid until decisive Liverpool intervention\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iraola-real-madrid-1200x676-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}