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Ones to watch

Jorne SPILEERS

CLUB BRUGGE

No player in the Belgian league has improved more in recent times than the19-year-old centre-back who, by some strange quirk of genetics, has the maturity, poise and football IQ of a grizzled and battle-hardened senior pro. Nothing ever seems to disconcert him. He was born for this.

A little more than12 months ago, Spileers was featuring for Club Brugge’s Under-18s. Now he exists on an altogether different plane, a guaranteed first-teamer and sufficiently impressive to already have earned a full call-up by

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