Real VARdrid give up on Bellingham to Liverpool

Real Madrid believe Liverpool are the strong contenders to sign Bellingham. Real Madrid set the machinery in motion months ago, just as they have done for the last few signings made by the Madrid club. In this case, the net was cast around Jude Bellingham, who became one of their priority targets to reinforce a midfield that sooner or later will have to change, something that already started with the departure of Casemiro last summer.

The problem has come with the footballing dimension that the player has been acquiring in the last few months of competition with Borussia Dortmund and what he is doing in the World Cup with the England national team, which has shot up the price of a player who at just 19 years of age is becoming a world star.

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Every game he plays in Qatar shoots up the price of a player capable of being decisive, as he was against Senegal, distributing kind passes to his team-mates as a starting point for the English triumph. The Borussia Dortmund player could become one of the most expensive players in history. His football and the rampant rush by some teams to pay above market price and without regard to the limits of spending and income have pushed transfer prices above pre- pandemic levels.

In the case of Bellingham, there is talk of 150 million euros, an amount that Real Madrid are not going to put on the table for a player that they consider to be of maximum interest and called to make a difference in the coming years, but it is considered that the operation is out of all logic and that it could endanger what has not happened so far even in the worst moments of the pandemic, which is the economic stability of the club.

Liverpool take the lead

What can Real Madrid do in this situation? Wait and hope that the player's final decision can turn around an operation that right now has been placed on the threshold of the impossible. The club that has taken the lead in the battle is Liverpool, a club that last summer made a move for several midfielders, including Gavi, to strengthen a midfield in need of some talent.