Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United reportedly want Jude Bellingham, who is thriving in the Championship with Birmingham City.
Jude Bellingham is narrowing down his options as he mulls over a big-money summer move, according to the Mirror (19 March, page 55), but it seems that he won’t be ending up at Liverpool or Arsenal any time soon.
The 16-year-old looks destined to become one of the most expensive teenagers in football history very soon.
Then again, you would expect nothing less from a midfielder who has already become one of the best in his position in England’s second tier at an age where most are fretting over their A-levels.
The Mirror reports that 16-year-old Bellingham has some of the biggest clubs on the continent queuing up to take him away from Birmingham City, including Arsenal and Premier League champions-in-waiting Liverpool.
But fans of the Reds and the Gunners shouldn’t get their hopes up.
Bellingham, it seems, has given a potential switch to Anfield or the Emirates the cold shoulder, instead preparing to choose between Manchester United and a Borussia Dortmund side who turned fellow teen sensation Jadon Sancho into a world beater in the space of 18 months.
Manchester United have certainly turned on the charm offensive, giving Bellingham a tour around their Carrington training base, introducing him to Sir Alex Ferguson and offering him a £100,000 a week contract – quite the raise on his current pay packet of £150.
Bellingham is expected to cost £30 million when he does indeed bid farewell to St Andrews. It remains to be seen whether Liverpool or Arsenal will make one last push.
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