PORTRAIT – Indisputable holder with the Three Lions after having been only a joker at the Euro, last year, the Borussia Dortmund midfielder has impressed since the start of the World Cup.
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“To well-born souls, value does not wait for the number of years.” A famous line from Cid which applies perfectly to the new darling of English football, Jude Bellingham. A nugget, as the consecrated name wants it. Here, it is rather a question of a meteorite. A year after his pro debut at 16 with Birmingham City, the native of Stourbridge was heading to Dortmund in 2020. Accumulating records of precocity and praise of all kinds, Bellingham was quick to impose himself under the colors of Borussia in Germany, taking another step forward this season. To the point of being followed by the biggest clubs on the planet.
The specialized site Transfermarkt assesses his value at €100 million, just below the other “made in England” prodigy, Phil Foden (110). And these are not his performances since the start of the World Cup, and again on the occasion of the English ride in 8es final against Senegal (3-0), which will lower the odds of this complete midfielder, capable of evolving…
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