He was a Liverpool fan, and they have spent the past couple of years "flirting" with each other very publicly. When this started Liverpool were flying high, and were a somewhat credible option. Now, he won't want to join a team that is struggling for direction, not in the Champions League, and anyway they will probably not be able or willing to finance the deal. He is left looking a bit silly, as most of the remaining options are direct rivals of Liverpool. He probably also wanted to come "home" to England. So he is left with a choice of a direct rival of Liverpool, or another new country to explore (I can't believe Bayern will finance the deal).
Jude Bellingham | Signed for Madrid
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RB in the right set up. Accept the fact that you'll get caught out from time to time but have your right winger come infield and let him have the width
I just find it difficult to get by the Dortmund thing with players now. I dont like to go in on Dortmund as they play nice football but they are a bit Spursey to me now, Rangers beat them deservedly in last seasons Europa, the lost to a non scoring Chelsea in the ECL this season. One German cup in the last few years for the 2nd best team in Germany, they are top of Bundesliga now but we just know how thats going to end up.
City reuniting him and Haaland would be a nightmare 
It's unfortunate that it looks likely as well with the futures of Silva and Gundogan being up in the air there.
Hope Real are able to put up a competitive offer rather than let him go back to England
It's unfortunate that it looks likely as well with the futures of Silva and Gundogan being up in the air there.
Hope Real are able to put up a competitive offer rather than let him go back to England
The Athletic article seems more like a negotiating stance by Liverpool.
It's an open secret that Bellingham wants to join them, he was hanging out with Trent again last night.
I do think it would be crazy for any team to spend close to £150 million on him though.
It's an open secret that Bellingham wants to join them, he was hanging out with Trent again last night.
I do think it would be crazy for any team to spend close to £150 million on him though.
Are you a Liverpool fan?
I really hope someone blows them out the water, or at the very least forces them to spunk the vast majority of their budget on him. Him alone does not solve their issues for next season imo.
The Enzo Fernandez deal could really have screwed the scouse this summer.
I'm not sure why we are being written off as buyers. If Qatar buy us, as I think they will, we will be comfortably wealthier than RM or City. With EtH around we are the up and coming team in that case. Yes financial fair play will be an obstacle but our revenue will most likely exceed every other English club bar City, and we know there's was achieved by financial doping and they will face sanctions in the summer. So it may be that if he wants to return to England, we are his best bet both financially and on the pitch.
It's more a question of do we want him.
It's more a question of do we want him.
Because given a choice I think he would rather link up with his old team mate Haaland than build up a new relationship with striker here
You cant possibly know that.
If Ten Hag prioritises him as his first choice and he's backed up with a debt-free oiled up transfer kitty, then he's coming. NQAT
I feel a lot better about this knowing he absolutely rocked the Championship at 16 yrs old with Birmingham City.
He'll have a much easier adjustment to England and the Premier League than most coming from Bundesliga
He’s great friends with Sancho?
Maybe but think IF we had strong interest our name would be in Ornstein's tweet too
No doubt every club wants him. It's about who is willing to pay the colossal transfer fee and wages.
Mostly because we clearly need to spend huge on strikers, plus we have some other squad needs. With FFP, even with Qatar as owners, we're unlikely to be able to afford say Osimhen and £120m+ on Bellingham.
Your last question is also pertinent. As seen yesterday, our need is for controlling midfielders, ball carriers, passers. Bellingham is brilliant but he's not really that kind of player.
Yeah compare our quality on the ball in midfield and final third to Arsenal,it's absolutely night and day much as it pains me to credit them
The Sancho experience is a pretty good reason not to come. He seems miserable here.
It’s not an overhyped League. It’s just that the best players tend to (eventually) play for one club and stick around. Buying Dortmunds best player is a good idea. Would you take Mane? Neuer? Goretzka? Kimmich? De Ligt? Sane? They’re all world
Class.
Bad example. Clearly something going on in the background with the lad.
He might be a bust eventually, but he’s looked great for us on a couple of occasions since his return.
Is it just me or is anyone else not really arsed about Bellingham? Seems like the hype far outweighs anything I’ve seen him do on the pitch.
City reuniting him and Haaland would be a nightmare
It's unfortunate that it looks likely as well with the futures of Silva and Gundogan being up in the air there.
Hope Real are able to put up a competitive offer rather than let him go back to England
This will happen I reckon. Pep seems to have got out of his own way and realised that Haaland just needs midfielders than play lower percentage passes and let him to the rest.
They will let Grealish go I reckon. Not that they need to balance the books.
Yep. He's really talented but he's not enough of a "sure thing" to justify spending insane money on. He reminds me of a more intelligent but less technically gifted Pogba.
Wouldn't surprise me if he became world class, but it equally wouldn't shock me if he ends up being only decent.
No the league is rubbish.
He’s a good player but he’s also 19 playing in a league for one of the best teams which like you said means he’s not really getting tested.
The last thing we should be doing is paying £150m to realise he’s got as many flaws as Paul Pogba.
Then fans are scratching their heads why he’s only good every 1-5 games.
We're being written off because of (a) real concerns about whether and when the sale will go through, and in either case the need to sell to meet FPP, particularly if we also go in for the top bracket striker we clearly need; and, conversely (b) exaggeration/misinformation about how desperate our FFP shortfalls actually are in the event of a sale going through. It's good media practice to catastrophize about United.
If the club commits to selling a whole bunch of squad players early and efficiently, hopefully with the new negotiator and whoever the new owners bring in to work alongside ETH, the negotiating team and, I guess, Murtough still (at least for the next 12 months), then we can afford Kane and Bellingham. Beyond that, City are a decent bet TBF, more so than Madrid splashing 120m on a first reserve , let alone Liverpool springing for him and being accepted.
Also, he's not a Liverpool fan. They might be his PL team of preference at a push, but he's a Brum Blue. Ole was more of a Liverpool fan when he signed for United than Bellingham is, if every credible report about the respective players is to be believed, just to put things in some perspective.
If the club commits to selling a whole bunch of squad players early and efficiently, hopefully with the new negotiator and whoever the new owners bring in to work alongside ETH, the negotiating team and, I guess, Murtough still (at least for the next 12 months), then we can afford Kane and Bellingham. Beyond that, City are a decent bet TBF, more so than Madrid splashing 120m on a first reserve , let alone Liverpool springing for him and being accepted.
Also, he's not a Liverpool fan. They might be his PL team of preference at a push, but he's a Brum Blue. Ole was more of a Liverpool fan when he signed for United than Bellingham is, if every credible report about the respective players is to be believed, just to put things in some perspective.
100% see your point.
But I’d endorse Ten Hag buying a 19-26 year old Pogba for a huge fee right now.
Pogba failed due to management. Not talent.
Making transfer decisions based on what club a player plays for is a great way to have shit transfer business. Evaluate the profile of a player, not the club he plays for. We’d save a lot of money doing this tbh
I agree but it’s the price that’s off putting.
It’s not our money though.
£100-150m for Bellingham at 20 is safe. If we sold him for the same money after 3 good seasons, that’s ok.
It’s risk free. We overpay for everyone. I just don’t see why we should worry about the fee. It’s a distraction.
Could definitely see this as a statement signing if Qatar buy us.
because more than likely there is still a limit to how much the club can spend. Not like even if a new ownership group comes in they will be able to spend 1 billion in transfers, even if they wanted to. Way too many holes in the squad to blow most/all of the transfer budget on a player like bellingham.
Meh. I just don’t care and I think we all get too caught up in it.
Massive difference between £100m and £1Billion too.
If we bought Bellingham and Kane I’d back us to win the league inside two years.
I don’t think a £175-£250m transfer window is fantasy for this summer either.
I’d rather that spent on two perfect players than 4 players that are perfect when Varane, Casemiro and Bruno are 2-3 years older and needing to be replaced.
The best midfielder in the league played for fecking Wolfsburg before his move
It was a better league back then. There was a time when Serie A had the best strikers too.
He's a good player but not the one we need. Bellingham will cost over £100m so should be signed as the final piece of the jigsaw in midfield for whoever ends up getting him. City and Real Madrid could probably get away with doing it, I'm not sure many others can.
Pogba failed due to having the maturity of a tadpole.
How so? Didn’t drink or party, trained hard, put in more world class performances for us than anyone in his time here, won a World Cup.
He’d have thrived under the current manager.
I’ve never really understood the hate. He’s thrived everywhere but United. On bigger stages. He’s played a variety of roles and looked incredible in all of them.
He’s the baby that got thrown out with the bath water. I’d love to have a post Juve version of Pogba here. He was exceptional.
is bellingham even the type of midfielder EtH wants/needs? From what ive read he isnt really the type we need. Feel like if we need one big midfield signing it would need to be in the mold of a FdJ type signing. That is also ignoring the massive squad depth issues we would have. Cant just add two top players and then expect our starting 11 to stay fit all year. We would have pretty much no midfield depth again next season, eriksen will only be a year older and who knows how he will even look when he comes back from injury. Id rather bring in 2 60-70 good midfielders instead of spending 150 on bellingham. Same thing could be said for kane with bringing in 2 60-70 million CF's instead of just relying on the one player. All of that would be very idealistic to expect the club to be able to execute a good transfer window of that level.
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