Scores winner in El Clasico and his thread isn't even bumped?
Jude Bellingham | Real Madrid player
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Too busy deliriously celebrating our victory over the mighty Coventry, innit.
Next Balon D'or Winner for me!! Just absolute class!! Odds currently 3/1!
He will lose CL Final and Ballon d'or to Kylian
Mbappe odds are 10/3 so put money on both and still end up in profit!
Madrid do owe us one for Ronaldo. Hopefully Jude's body holds up so we can see that day.
They should sell Jude to us next season then. Or...in 10 years when he has 15% battery.
Touché.Hey, hey!
You got Varane, Casemiro and Di Maria in return. What more do you want?
Indeed. I sense a whiff of Wayne Rooney with him, that body won't age well. He's 20 but he's very near to his physical peak.
Hey, hey!
You got Varane, Casemiro and Di Maria in return. What more do you want?
This just shows to stop signing from Madrid. No more leftovers
There’s no way he’s going to finish his career at Madrid. His next move will be very interesting. Madrid will want insane money and might not find a buyer at that price. Wonder if he’ll just run his contract down and take his pick of English club?
Why?
Which world class player at the height of their power have willingly leave Madrid, ever? Not in my lifetime that’s for sure.
They’ve never had an English player in that situation before. Look at the history of English players in football. They’re home birds.
He'll be 25 at the end of his contract, so even at 24 Madrid would need to sell at a price clubs will pay. That's if he doesn't renew if course.
It’s also uncharted territory where you have an English attacker performing this well there, was Michael Owen a home bird or he was just kicked out for being washed?
I don’t think he will end his career at Madrid, because even Raul and CR didn’t get to, but if he keeps performing well I can’t see him leaving before he hits 28/29 at the very least and there’s a ‘mutual’ parting of ways. Madrid simply don’t let world class footballers at their peak go, unless they don’t want him (Robben, Di Maria etc)
Xabi Alonso did
At 32, after winning the CL, and we'd signed Kroos. And he left because his wife wanted to leave Madrid, because he'd gotten involved with a local gal...
He left in 2014 at 33, was good still at Bayern for a couple of seasons but far from his peak.
If you count him then we also count Varane and Casemiro and CR.
Is Bellingham still in Ballon form or has he tapered off now?
Tapered off some, as well with a couple injuries. Still great, but not the Di Stefano regen of early season
I don’t know why you’re arguing the toss here. He’s a young lad from Birmingham. There’s no way that winning English league titles isn’t on his wish list. So we’re only splitting hairs about when he leaves. My point is that Madrid will ask for such crazy money it might price him out of whatever move he wants next. Hence he might force a move by running down his contract, which is happening more and more these days and we already know he’s someone that isn’t afraid to put his long term career ambitions ahead of short term money, with the whole Dortmund move. It will be fun watching Madrid fans heads explode if/when that happens.
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Gonna be a fierce battle. Jude might have a chance next year.
Unlucky this time round against such luminaries. Back to the drawing board over preseason, it is!
Pointless to think about that now in a Euro/Copa season
Ya, up to now. Obviously the swing could be on, but going into the competition it’s interesting to see how things are perceived.
If a player wants to leave the club has no problem letting them go but it's something hard to imagine. If he continues being one of the top performers the club won't want to sell him and if he ends up winning a lot of stuff perhaps he would want a different challenge just like Casemiro and Varane did.
What?! I thought Xabi Alonso was the cleanest guy ever.
Nope. Had an affair with a famous local dj iirc. At least that was the story
Yeah I don’t see why he’d be leaving Madrid until he’s over the hill.
That’s unless things go really downhill
That’s unless things go really downhill
He sued La Otra Crónica* for libel when they ran that story. Can't seem to find the result of the case online, but sounds possibly just like a smear job on a departing Madrid player.
*Never heard of them until now...
That is the problem with English fans, calling Bellingham in the same breath with these legends, what has he done in football to be compared to these guys?
Gimme a break
The buzz has only started to die down for me
Went missing again.
Invisible.
It'd really be a joke if he won Ballon D'or. Maybe next year or in the future if he improves but he'd be a worse winner than Owen was on this seasons (mostly very good) performances.
His idol is Stevie Me. Explains a fair bit