Jude Bellingham

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Can we start working on a song for him now so it’s ready for when he signs?
Don’t want him ending up like poor Erling who will be lucky to have one before he waves us goodbye in 5 years for his new life in Madrid... :-)
 
I think if I was squad planning at City given Ilkay’s contract/ age, KDB’s age and Bernardo’s future wishes.

I’d be very keen to get Bellingham signed.

He has a lot qualities and high potential.

Think Pep would have to teach patience, but could make him a very well rounded player.

For the price suggested, I think us, Liverpool, Chelsea or United would do the deal if chosen by him (so let’s hope it’s us).
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
You're right.

The lad signed a new contract with Brum so they could sell him and bank the money. "Ravel 2.0" would have walked to the highest paying club in the prem and spunked it all on slags and drugs.
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I didn't even think of that, I was just going off how level headed he seems in interviews, how he seems to have a good family around him, and (as far as I'm aware) doesn't seem to attract any bad press at all

Ravel Morrison seems a big stretch. I'd say he's far more likely to have a career closer to someone like Lampard if anything, and he's way ahead of where Lampard was at his age, which tells you a lot. It would be good fun watching Foden, Haaland and Bellingham in blue over the next few years. Arguably 3 of the top 5 young talents in the world, and if not top five they're all definitely top ten
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Yes. I thought you'd mention him. We bought a player who peaked after we bought him and didn't fit in their system within the first XI. Nowadays they have billion euro buyouts.

Apart from Yaya who has got better since leaving Barcelona after being a first team regular?
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Alexis Sanchez, Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Samuel Eto'o, Thiago
 
kun said:
Alexis Sanchez, Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Samuel Eto'o, Thiago
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I've already mentioned Sanchez. Neymar and Ibrahimovic (arguably) didn't improve or decline, Ibrahimovic was only there a year so such a decline would be extraordinary. Depends on how seriously you take Ligue 1.

Eto'o absolutely not and Thiago was not a first XI regular, he was backup.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Well I was excluding that era and before otherwise you might as well include Luis Suarez the Spaniard.



Never played for the first team.
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All it takes is for them to have extra players in positions that they know they have starters for. Ie Busquets and Yaya.

Cillessen too maybe.
 
Phil1 said:
Can we start working on a song for him now so it’s ready for when he signs?
Don’t want him ending up like poor Erling who will be lucky to have one before he waves us goodbye in 5 years for his new life in Madrid... :-)
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I think we already have one….

HEYYYYY JUDE!
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
I've already mentioned Sanchez. Neymar and Ibrahimovic (arguably) didn't improve or decline,
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Have to disagree. Ibrahimovic's career after Barcelona was far more impressive than his career before or during his time there. Neymar has improved IMO and has gotten absolutely outrageous numbers for PSG. He's not playing with peak Messi anymore so the Champions Leagues don't come so often.

Mr Kobayashi said:
Ibrahimovic was only there a year so such a decline would be extraordinary. Depends on how seriously you take Ligue 1.

Eto'o absolutely not and Thiago was not a first XI regular, he was backup.
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Eto'o absolutely. His 2 years at Inter Milan was just about the man's peak. Maybe he was just the same level he was at Barca but he was hardly finished.

Thiago played 71 games in his last 2 years at Barcelona, he may have been rotated but he was not just a back up.
 
kun said:
Have to disagree. Ibrahimovic's career after Barcelona was far more impressive than his career before or during his time there. Neymar has improved IMO and has gotten absolutely outrageous numbers for PSG. He's not playing with peak Messi anymore so the Champions Leagues don't come so often.


Eto'o absolutely. His 2 years at Inter Milan was just about the man's peak. Maybe he was just the same level he was at Barca but he was hardly finished.
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Yes exactly, he didn't improve. Why would he play second fiddle to Milito and play auxiliary RB in one final when he got MOTM four years earlier?


kun said:
Thiago played 71 games in his last 2 years at Barcelona, he may have been rotated but he was not just a back up.
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In his last season he played 2 times in the champions league. He was a back up to the three players in front of him at centre midfield.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
I’m sure our scouting team know better than I. I merely can’t see what makes Bellingham worth £100m. Grealish neither, although he does have the ability to keep the ball better than most.

Maybe Bellingham is the answer. It just wouldn’t be for me at £100m+.

I would offer Barca £100m for Pedri if I was lent Tkixi’s special jumper for the day though.
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It'll be £85m if that helps convince you, not £100m+
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Not hugely, it’s more likely to be £185m if the pound is worth half a euro next summer…

Time will tell. There’s probably good reasons as to why neither of us are scouts or directors of football!
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blueparrot said:
If it's 95 mill Euros, it could well be £100 mill plus by next summer :)
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Fair do's, the exchange rate didn't occur to me but that's going to apply to most transfers for us at least I suppose.
 
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