About a year ago, the prestigious French newspaper The Team revealed that Sevilla and Betis had put the same name on their agenda to reinforce the lead and that a derby was coming in the market to obtain their services. It was the battering ram of the Bruges Circle, Kevin Denkeywho had exploded in the Jupiler League and was on his way to becoming one of the fashionable strikers in Europe. At that time, the two clubs reinforced the vanguard with other names due to the difficulty of removing him from their club at that time, with Sevilla betting on Alejo Véliz and Betis, on Bakambu and Chimy Ávila.
Nevertheless, The two Seville clubs kept their eyes on the Togolesewho finished the season as the top scorer in his competition with 27 goals, to which was added the one scored in the Croky Cup and, obviously, sparked interest on the international scene. Sevilla and Betis remained on the list of suitors, to the point that both made a moveeach one at a certain time in the window.
So, Denkey led the Nervión agenda at the beginning of the market to replace En-Nesyrialthough it was soon understood in Nervión that it was a tremendously difficult objective despite what was entered by the Moroccan. In fact, finally, he closed a free incorporation, that of Iheanacho.
In the case of Betis, his name reappeared at the end of the window, within the ‘short list’ that also included Moukoko and Vitor Roque. The sports management really likes Denkey, but his price and the real option of acquiring the services of Vitor Roque closed this avenue.
Denkey will go to MLS
This does not mean that Denkey left his agendas, since he delights both sports departments, but the striker maintains his scoring instinct – he has scored eleven goals – in this season and In recent days there has been a definitive movement that forces Sevilla and Betis to say goodbye to this dreamed possibility. And it is that Denkey is one step away from leaving for the American MLS after the agreement reached between FC Cincinnati and Círculo de Brujas that amounts to 16.6 million euros (15.3 fixed), which will make it the most expensive signing in MLS history and it definitively distances him from Benito Villamarín and Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, since those amounts are prohibitive right now in the Spanish capital.