Nathanael Mbuku (age 24) came through at Reims and broke into senior football early, a compact right winger with the sort of low-centre-of-gravity game that tends to suit wide areas. His busiest and most productive league season came in 2020–21, when he scored four times in 32 appearances. That was the point when he looked to be moving from prospect to established first-team option.
The next stage was less straightforward. After leaving Reims for Augsburg, regular league football was harder to come by, and his development has owed something to the loan spells that kept him playing rather than sitting still. Those moves did not make much noise, but they mattered in giving him minutes and keeping his career moving at a stage when it could easily have stalled.
At Augsburg, Mbuku has remained more peripheral than central. In 2025–26 he has yet to make a league appearance, though he has featured four times in African competition and scored once. He has also stayed involved internationally with DR Congo, making six World Cup qualifying appearances and scoring once.
He is still at an age where the shape of his career can shift again, but for now it has been a decent professional path rather than a smooth upward climb: early promise at Reims, loans that helped keep him active, and a more uncertain spell at Augsburg. His market value is around £1.5 million, according to Transfermarkt.
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