CBS journalist Ben Jacobs has told Football Transfers that Liverpool target Jude Bellingham may decide his future club based on the approach former Borussia Dortmund teammate Erling Haaland took before joining Manchester City.
Only recently, transfer insider Fabrizio Romano had revealed on his official YouTube channel that Jurgen Klopp’s side have an “obsession” with signing the teenage sensation.
The Italian journalist had also emphasised that the Reds consider the England international as their main transfer target this summer.
How Bellingham will decide his next club
Ben Jacobs explained by telling Football Transfers, “I think [Jude] Bellingham, from what I gather, will do exactly what [Erling] Haaland did [while deciding his choice of club before joining Manchester City].”
Jacobs elaborated, “He’ll [Jude Bellingham] score who he joins dispassionately, which is really key. So, when Haaland joined Manchester City, of course he looked at the sentiment and the fact that his father played for the football club.”
“But he also created a bunch of columns, ranging from manager to teammates to training facilities to where the team was to pay packet to City and so on.”
“And some of them were objective categories and some of them were subjective categories.”
“He scored them and he had a gut instinct from what I understand, that Manchester City were his favourite club, but the data and all these columns from a more dispassionate, neutral sense added up.”
“He scored all the suitors and Manchester City were top of the list, and I think Bellingham will do the same and that’s going to be very important.”
As things stand, Liverpool are 15 points adrift of Premier League leaders, Arsenal, with their title challenge over for all practical purposes.
A season after the Reds missed out on an unprecedented quadruple, it looks like the club are in desperate need of a complete rebuild.
With clubs such as Real Madrid and Manchester City set to succeed in both the short and long-term, Jude Bellingham’s scoring system may eliminate Liverpool as a potential future club of choice.
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