Yann Sommer has left Inter Milan and signed a three-year deal with Club Brugge, trading back-to-back Serie A titles for a fresh project in Belgium. At 37, on a free transfer, the Swiss veteran isn't winding down — he's walking into another Champions League campaign.
He replaces Simon Mignolet, who retired in May at 38 after a career that ended with a Belgian title at Brugge. There's a certain symmetry in that — one experienced European goalkeeper out, another one in. But Sommer arrives with a different kind of recent pedigree.
What Sommer brings — and what he's leaving behind
His three seasons at Inter produced two Serie A titles and a Champions League final appearance in 2025, where Inter were hammered 5-0 by PSG. That scoreline stings, but reaching the final at all was a genuine achievement for a club that hadn't been at that level for over a decade. Before that, he won the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich and made his name at Basel.
The last chapter at Inter wasn't entirely clean, though. Inter were knocked out in the Champions League knockout playoffs by Bodø/Glimt last season — a result that surprised most of European football and contributed to the sense that the project had plateaued. Sommer was part of that too.
Still, 94 international caps and four World Cups tell you the level this goalkeeper has operated at. He retired from Switzerland duty after their Euro 2024 quarterfinal exit to England. The international career is closed. The club career clearly isn't.
What it means for Brugge's Champions League odds
Brugge are a consistent Champions League presence but rarely a team bookmakers worry about past the group stage. Adding a goalkeeper with Sommer's experience — someone who knows how to handle the pressure of knockout European football — quietly improves their ceiling. Brugge's defensive pricing in European markets should shift slightly now that they've locked down one of the more reliable goalkeepers available on a free.
Three years is a long commitment for a 37-year-old. But Brugge clearly believe they're getting more than a short-term stopgap. Whether Sommer sees it the same way — or whether this is simply the best offer on the table after Inter moved on — is the real question nobody's answering yet.
