The record set by the sale of Ayase Ueda at Feyenoord for 12 million euros in the summer of 2023 he is one step away from being just a memory at Cercle Brugge. According to reports from Cincinnati Enquirer in January the Belgian club will earn 16.2 million dollars for one of its players: this is the center forward Steve Denkey who will fly overseas to play in Major League Soccer with the FC Cincinnati shirt with which he has reached an agreement for a contract until 2028. The decision to accelerate to close already at the beginning of the year with the class of 2000 was taken by the company after the elimination in the MLS play offs, after finishing the regular season in third place in the Eastern Conference, against New York City.
Denkey, also followed by Napoli in the summer, was the top scorer of the last Jupiler Pro League, the Belgian top championship, with 23 goals in 28 appearances during the regular season, while this season he has already scored 11 goals in 23 appearances in the various competitions.
The Togo international will become the star of the US franchise where no other player has been guaranteed a contract expiring beyond 2026, with only the Venezuelan Kevin Kelsytaken on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk, who in the event of a redemption would sign a long contract like Denkey.