'Anderlecht want to offer 5 million euros for striker Charpentier'

TRANSFERS The French website Footmercato reports that Anderlecht and Club Brugge have both set their sights on Gabriel Charpentier. Both clubs would like to offer five million euros to take over the Frenchman from FC Genoa.


Genoa rented Charpentier last season to Frosinone in Serie B. In 21 games, only half of which in the starting eleven, he scored ten times and gave two assists. At Genoa he still has a contract for one season and therefore the club wants to sell him. The asking price would be five million euros, an amount that both Club and Anderlecht would like to pay, it sounds.

According to Footmercato, however, Charpentier would prefer to play in Serie A. Is this report, which also surfaced a few months ago, perhaps a way of his agent to put the Frenchman in the spotlight of Italian clubs? It could just be...