Bellingham has a stark choice...
1. Be the face of the new Real Madrid rebuild
2. Become a squad player at City with the view of becoming a starter
This all depends on whether Bellingham wants to have a new team built around him & become part of Real's illustrious history, or he wants to return home & prove himself amongst his England peers in the toughest league on the world.
The reports from Spain are he'd rather write his name into football history by becoming a Real Madrid player. However, he needs to remember that things turned to shit at Real for better players than Bellingham, with Bale, Hazard & Owen amongst others springing to mind.
City in the Premier League is definitely the tougher choice. But if he comes here, he's gonna have to fight for his place, as opposed being earmarked to replace Modric or Kroos in Spain & be almost guaranteed a place in the starting eleven.
I'd love him here, but I'm increasingly not arsed what he does. If he chooses Real, we'll move onto our next midfield target who I reckon should be Declan Rice.
Rice is a different type of player who solves the Rodri issue, but means we'll have to find an alternative to eventually replace Gundog. But this could lead to Grealish & Foden moving to central midfield, & us looking for the rapid attacking wingers to replace Grealish & Foden out wide as many of us believe we need to do.