Mercato: Congolese Jackson Muleka signs for 4 years at Standard

Tkings and a half years after the arrivals of Christian Luyindama, Jonathan Bolingi and Bope Merveille Bokadi, it is again at Tout-Puissant Mazembe that Standard has found an attacker whose profile pleased Lille, Lens, Besiktas, Nantes and a few Spanish clubs. Fast and powerful, Jackson Muleka Kyanvubu (20) has initialed a four-year contract, with an option for a fifth season in favor of the Liège club. The Congolese international striker has passed his physical tests in his country and will undergo the traditional medical examination upon his arrival in the Cité ardente. That is to say not immediately, in three weeks no doubt, because the person concerned must have the ad hoc visas to be able to disembark in Belgium. Without knowing if he will not be placed in a fortnight upon his arrival on Belgian soil, as soon as the Democratic Republic of Congo is currently confined.

“It was the right time to try my luck in Europe,” said Jackson Muleka on the site of TP Mazembe, who formalized early Wednesday his departure for Standard. “My wish was granted …” The transfer was carried out without the intervention of intermediaries, and the precision is not insignificant as soon as it is the interference of an agent in the file who had put a definitive end to the negotiations started with Lille, which would have placed the player in Mouscron.

The transfer from Muleka to Liège would turn around a sum of 1.5 million, with a large percentage (40%?) On resale. However, last January, the Egyptian club FC Pyramids had deposited an amount of 5 million on the table to try to secure the services of this player very well side, but the president of Mazembe, Moïse Katumbi, had refused to give in his player to a rival club on the African scene, preferring that the latter set sail for Europe and be integrated into a project likely to suit him. The Standard is therefore that one. Jackson Muleka will offer Philippe Montanier a very different attacking profile from what he currently has with Felipe Avenatti, Obbi Oulare and Duje Cop, namely speed and more percussion.

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