It comes back to us that the current leader of the Portuguese championship, and future opponent of Club Brugge in the knockout stages of the Champions League, Benfica, is interested in the situation of the median from Liège. Currently, the Lisbon club has not contacted Standard, which hopes, as for Amallah, to still be able to recover a small sum during this winter transfer window. On the side of the Portuguese club, we do not confirm the information, without denying it. Will Benfica take a first step towards Nicolas Raskin in the coming days? It’s a possibility. In the past, the current leader of the championship (with six points ahead of Braga and seven over Porto of Sergio Conceição) had already made his market in Sclessin by attracting Axel Witsel (2011) or even Mehdi Carcela (2015).
In the other direction, Standard has contacted its former captain, Zinho Vanheusden, to discuss the question of a return in the form of a loan. The 23-year-old defender, who has only 56 minutes of playing time this season, is not against it but the deal seems difficult to conclude since the Limburger is on loan from Inter Milan to AZ Alkmaar with an option approaching 10 million euros. Standard will have to be inventive if they really want to see their former defender return to the fold.
In addition, with the sale of Ameen Al-Dakhil to Burnley for just over €5 million, Standard should recover just under a million euros, since by selling him to Saint-Trond in January 2022 , in the context of the dispute between the two clubs in the Edmilson case, for €500,000, the main club had included 20% on the resale.