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Brugge bidding to dominate

ave Club Brugge outgrown Belgium? On the back of two league crowns and financial stability, the club’s hierarchy likes to think so. Onwards and upwards with plans for a new 40,000-seater stadium on the site of the current Jan Breydelstadion under consideration, and perhaps even a BeNeliga, a crossborder league with the Netherlands, so as to generate more revenue and close the gap with Europe’s elite. But plans can backfire, as the club’s failed IPO demonstrated in

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