Former Inter Milan midfielder Radja Nainggolan is full of praise for AC Milan attacker and fellow Belgian Alexis Saelemaekers.

Nainggolan feels Saelemaekers won over his doubters during last season's title winning campaign.

He told La Gazzetta dello Sport: “Saelemaekers was not highly regarded here and instead he was able to establish himself in Milan and win the league title.

"Congratulations to him: that's the way.

"Our boys should go and compete in the top clubs."

AC Milan are being linked with Club Brugge attacker Charles De Ketelaere and Nainggolan added: “He is a very strong player and he needs exactly this: to test himself in a more competitive context than the current one. De Ketelaere has won the last three league titles here, in the last two seasons he has been an undisputed star of the team. What else can it aspire to? His journey in Belgium is over, he must establish himself elsewhere."