The Football Reporters: Tuchel’s Bellingham conundrum
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 1:12.2 | Welcome to the football reporters. This week we'll wonder where Jude Bellingham fits into Thomas Tupall's England's plans. We'll also ask if Arnus Lot has a Mohammed Sal a problem at Liverpool and we'll also explain why Mark took a trip to Gibraltar. I'm assuming that it wasn't just a holiday. Definitely not. So on October 1st, Duke Bellingham was named England's Player of the Year. 40 hours later, he was left out of the England squad. James, you're obviously our England man. Can you kind of explain where we are with Jude Bellingham, Thomas Tuchel, England and the World Cup? So he obviously had shoulder surgery, which ruled him out of the start of the season for Real Madrid. |
| 1:16.2 | He was left out in September for that reason. |
| 1:20.9 | But he came, he was, well, everybody thought he was going to come back for the October squad because he had returned to playing for Real Madrid, but he had not completed 90 minutes. |
| 1:27.2 | I think he played four times, started once for Real. |
| 1:32.2 | But Thomas Seekle is someone who's repeatedly stressed. |
| 1:35.9 | I don't have a lot of time with the players. |
| 1:37.6 | There's only a handful of camps. |
| 1:39.4 | He's sort of talking in days that he has to work with this group |
| 1:42.7 | before trying to win the World Cup next summer. So you'd think someone is integral or apparently integral as Jude |
| 1:48.0 | Bellingham would be welcomed with open arms as soon as he was able to walk again. But he's made |
| 1:53.9 | a point of leaving him out and I think it's sent a real message not just to Jude Bellingham |
| 2:00.6 | but obviously he also left out Phil Foden. He left out Jack Grealish and It's sent a real message, not just to Jude Bellingham, |
| 2:02.9 | but obviously you also left out Phil Foden. |
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