Manchester Metropolis chiefs reportedly consider they maintain a key benefit over Liverpool and Actual Madrid within the race to signal Jude Bellingham.
The Borussia Dortmund midfielder is a long-term switch goal for Liverpool and has additionally lately been linked with Actual Madrid. Manchester Metropolis are mentioned to be one other crew pushing laborious to get his signature.
As per the Solar (h/t the Mirror), Metropolis’s chiefs consider supervisor Pep Guardiola’s presence will encourage Bellingham to maneuver to the Etihad. The Spanish tactician is considered top-of-the-line managers in trendy soccer.
Guardiola has received league titles with Barcelona, Manchester Metropolis, and Bayern Munich as their head coach. Guardiola can also be amongst a uncommon listing of managers to have received the UEFA Champions League twice, doing so with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011.
Bellingham, in the meantime, is among the, if not the hottest prospects in world soccer. He has been sensational for Borussia Dortmund since his transfer from Birmingham Metropolis in the summertime of 2020.
{The teenager} has already amassed 112 senior appearances with the Black and Yellow and is a daily starter for England. He began in all 5 of the Three Lions’ 2022 FIFA World Cup video games in Qatar, scoring and aiding one objective every.
The Englishman barely has any chinks in his armor, which is spectacular contemplating he’s but to succeed in his prime as a participant. If he strikes to the Etihad, Bellingham could possibly be a readymade substitute for goal-scoring midfielder Ilkay Gundogan.
The 32-year-old German midfielder is within the ultimate yr of his contract with the Cityzens.
Jordan Henderson has already praised Actual Madrid and Liverpool goal throughout World Cup
Probably the most notable off-the-pitch tales from England’s World Cup marketing campaign in Qatar was Bellingham’s evidently budding friendship with Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Many Reds followers noticed this as an indication that the previous Birmingham Metropolis midfielder could possibly be headed to Anfield. Whereas there isn’t a readability on the place Bellingham could also be headed subsequent amid curiosity from Actual Madrid, he has already drawn excessive reward from the Liverpool skipper.
Trent Alexander-Arnold on his image with Jude Bellingham to the BBC:”I am simply going out with a mate, aren’t I… Everyone seems to be saying ‘agent Trent’ however no.. (laughing).” https://t.co/LvvqMbUB3Y
Talking within the post-match interview after England’s quarter-final win over Senegal on 4 December, Henderson mentioned (h/t talkSPORT):
“I’ve mentioned it many a time. He’s a one-off. We have to let him take pleasure in taking part in soccer, he’s solely 19. He’s been unbelievable at this match however [also] for a protracted time frame now with Dortmund.”
“He’s carried it on into this match and hopefully he can simply keep on going from energy to energy and being an enormous participant for England.”
The Three Lions would go on to 2-1 to France within the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar.