DBasia.news – Premier League giants Liverpool have reportedly been eyeing Jude Bellingham since a decade ago aka from 2012 ago.
Bellingham is a Birmingham City academy player. He then left the club in 2019.
At that time there were several big English clubs that were ready to accommodate him. But Bellingham instead chose a career in Germany with Borussia Dortmund.
It was the right decision. His career skyrocketed with Dortmund.
Currently Jude Bellingham is still under contract with Borussia Dortmund until 2025. But there is news that a number of big European teams have tried to bring him in the summer of 2022 yesterday.
One of them is Liverpool. But the Reds failed to bring him because Dortmund did not want to let him go at that time.
Liverpool was then said to be trying to bring him back. Probably in the summer of 2023.
Liverpool are said to have made an approach to Bellingham. They are also claimed to have prepared an offer of £70 million on Dortmund.
Now there is interesting news regarding Liverpool’s interest in Jude Bellingham. The Reds are said to have been interested in Bellingham since 2012.
This news was reported by The Athletic. The report said that in that year, Liverpool had approached Bellingham and his family.
At that time Bellingham himself was only nine years old. His status is a player in the Birmingham U-11 team.
Bellingham also had a trial at Liverpool for two days. His action at that time was claimed to have impressed the Reds coaching staff.
Because at that time it was not only his football talent that stood out. Bellingham also showed maturity when taking part in the training sessions.
Liverpool then tried to convince Jude Bellingham and his family to move to Merseyside. They are also prepared to pay compensation fees to Birmingham City.
The cost at that time was very cheap, only around 9,000 pounds or around Rp. 152 million. Unfortunately the Bellingham family refused to move to Merseyside.
At that time Chelsea and Manchester City were also rumored to want to sign Bellingham. But they are both made to bite the fingers.
Now Dortmund insists they do not want to let Bellingham go to any club. That’s why they set a price of 131 million pounds to him.