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The Athletic FC Podcast

Jude Bellingham: The battle to sign him & why he might not start at the World Cup

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic’s Rafa Honigstein, Jack Pitt-Brooke & James Pearce to detail the battle between clubs such as Liverpool & Manchester United to sign Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund. Also we hear why, despite impressive performances in the Champions League, Bellingham isn't sure to start for England at this year's World Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Athletic.

0:03.0

Jude Bellingham is currently one of the most coveted players in Europe, standing out of course

0:08.0

for Borisia Dortmund in the Bundesliga and the Champions League.

0:11.7

And big things will be expected of him if he gets his

0:14.5

chance for England at this year's World Cup and the battle to sign him it feels like

0:19.7

is already underway so what is Dortman stance, which clubs are most likely to sign him, and what is it

0:26.4

about Bellingham that makes him so good. I'm Mark Chapman, this is the Athletic Football

0:30.8

podcast. Hey you don't make it.

0:34.8

As far as Marco Royce is deflected in here as Jude Bellinger.

0:40.1

For me it's all about the feeling that I get from the people and the ambition people bring up money and all that rubbish but I wouldn't play for a club that I genuinely didn't fall in love with you know I felt a strong connection with the people at Dortmund.

0:53.0

They told me, you know, if you come here,

0:54.8

we'll develop you, you'll get game time,

0:57.0

and you're being international in two years. So with us for this one the athletics Raffah Honechine who covers German football

1:09.0

for us we've got Jack Pick Brooke who covers England and James Pierce. Our Liverpool writer who's written a big old read on the battle for Bellingham and I suppose James the fact that you are on is a clue to who we think are the favorites to sign him

1:27.6

domestically at least would that be fair? I think certainly the club, you'd say, have the greatest need and certainly probably,

1:38.1

I don't think anyone admires him more than Jogan Klop and Liverpool's recruitment staff who reviewed Jude Bellingham as the complete box-to-box midfielder.

1:47.6

And I think when you also when you look at what's coming up on the horizon with Liverpool's midfield needing a major revamp in

1:53.7

2023 when you've got a situation with Katie, Oxay Chamberlain,

1:58.1

a Milner all out of contracts. I think that is why Liverpool's interest is so strong, but I think the caveat to that is they also know that they will have some serious competition for his signature.

2:10.0

Although I particularly liked Raff smile as I I asked that question to James which sort of indicated

2:15.4

Oh there they go the arrogant English thinking that he'll leave Dortmund at the end of this season.

2:20.0

I wouldn't go that far. I think Dortmund are not stupid. They are aware that Jude Bellingham

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