By Monica Iheakam

Anderlecht and Club Brugge are in the lead to sign Nigerian rising star, Henry Onyekuru , as they have both tabled a £6.7million (about N3.3bn) offer for  the KAS Eupen striker.

This fresh development was coming at a time when top EPL side, Everton also  expressed interest in signing him.

The 19-year-old  had been courted by a host of Premier League sides and was keen to move to England but Anderlecht and Brugge had made opening offers.

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Onyekuru had still to make his full international debut for Nigeria, so would need to move for £7m and on a contract of £32,000 a week to ensure a work permit under the totting-up procedure.

Onyekuru is in contention to become Belgium’s player of the year.The teenager can play wide or as a striker and had scored 17 goals so far this season.

Everton, Southampton, Bournemouth and Liverpool had all shown interest while Celtic failed with a bid to sign him in January.