Racing Genk Reveals Why They Can’t Sign Paul Onuachu

The manager of Racing Genk, Wouter Vrancken, said the cost of Super Eagles striker Paul Onuachu in the transfer market won’t permit the Belgian Pro League club to sign him this summer.

According to transfermarkt.com, Paul Onuachu is valued at €13 million in the transfer market. However, Southampton brought him to the Premier League last season for a transfer fee worth €18 million.

Unfortunately, Onuachu who joined the Saints from Racing Genk barely six months ago was not able to reciprocate his goalscoring form in the Premier League and couldn’t help Southampton to escape relegation at the end of the 2022-2023 season.

The Nigerian forward who was once the highest goalscorer in the Belgian league didn’t score for the Saints and only participated in four games in about four months.

Now that the 29-year-old Nigeria international has joined Southampton down to the second tier of English football, he has been linked with the Belgian Pro League club.

He has also been linked with moves to Borussia Monchengladbach, Schalke 04, and Union Berlin in the German Bundesliga.

But his move to Racing Genk won’t work this summer as the club’s manager, Vrancken has made it clear that the club won’t be able to pay for his transfer fee after paying €5.2 million for a Ghanaian winger, Christopher Bonsu Baah this summer.

“That depends on him (Paul Onuachu). Basically, we don’t want to trade in that category, no”, Vrancken told Het Laatste Nieuws via voetbalkrant.

He added that Bonsu Baah’s transfer fee was “the limit” for Racing Genk. “Antwerp and Club can go to double that”, he concluded.