Could be sipping pure hopium because I was convinced we were getting Bellingham BUT...
If you look at all the reporting from UK sources, there's a lot of non-committal language used.
Telegraph said there was skepticism about how Real could afford + it was thought Bellingham wanted to return to England.
In Fabrizio's YouTube video about it, he said: "The feeling of Real Madrid is that Jude Bellingham is ready to say yes" and then reiterated "On the player's side, Real Madrid are convinced that the green light from Jude Bellingham is imminent"
That means everything's coming from the Real Madrid side and even they aren't claiming that he's actually said yes.
Even Fabrizio's tweets about it, which are a bit more definite, say Real are "close", Real are "favourites" and City are "unlikely" - none of it adds up to any actual certainty.
The same Spanish papers that claim it's close now are the ones that claimed Real had "cooled" their interest a few weeks ago so unless it was a sudden change of heart, struggling to see how they can hold that much weight.
And, most of all, Ornstein hasn't touched the story. Tolmie said City's higher ups were close with him. It's the biggest move of the summer, I'd be amazed if he didn't have contacts that could have confirmed the news to him yesterday.
All a bit suspicious to me.
Again, could be looking from a biased perspective but it ain't adding up for me
