German Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund have confirmed that Jude Bellingham will join Real Madrid after the Spanish giants agreed to pay £88.5 million for the player.
The 19-year-old has been a target for the Spanish giants for a while likewise English heavyweights Liverpool and Manchester City. Bellingham will sign a contract with the club expected to run until 2029 and will now travel to Madrid over the next few days to complete his medicals.
Bellingham’s transfer could rise to £115 million due to various add-ons included in the deal which would make him the third most expensive teenage transfer in the world after Kylian Mbappe and Joao Felix.
He is considered one of the best midfielders in the world, having shown potential as a 16-year-old at Birmingham City, prompting Dortmund to sign him for £25 million in July 2020.
Bellingham has played 132 times for the North Rhine-Westphalia outfit, scoring 24 goals and providing 25 assists, helping them to the 2021 DFB Pokal title. He is also a regular with the England national team, earning 24 caps since debuting in November 2020 and starred at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
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Bellingham’s capture by Real Madrid is a continuous rebuild of the midfield with youth players, away from the familiar faces of Luka Modric and Toni Kross who have aged and have spent more than a decade at the club.
Los Blancos already have young French internationals Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchouameni in their ranks, signed from Monaco and Rennes in 2021 and 2022 respectively, both players doing their part in Madrid lifting all six available trophies (La Liga, Copa del Rey, Supercopa de Espana, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup).
