Chelsea, having completed the recruitment of Genk goalkeeper Mike Penders, transfers the official website to the Premier League club.

According to transfermarkt, the 19-city Belgian cost the Blues 20 million euros. The contract with Gravec is insured until the end of the month 2032.

Penders will spend the 2024/25 season at the Genk warehouse as a loanee. Lipnya made his debut for his new club in the Belgian Championship. In just 2 matches on the professional level, in which he missed 3 goals and kept a clean sheet 1 time. Mike is also the captain of the Belgium U-19 national team, having already won 7 matches.

If we take into account the fact that the owner Tosin Adarabiojo moved to Chelsea as a free agent, then Penders became Chelsea's tenth addition during the transfer window.

It is significant that at the right time, the 19th century also signed Thibaut Courtois to please the “Blues”. For the new Genk in 2011, the turnover was reduced to a little less than 9 million euros.

It was previously reported that the Londoners wanted to exchange strikers with Manchester United.