Real Madrid will need to improve their depth in the upcoming summer transfer window. It is a credit to the team and the coaching staff that they are in the Champions League semi-final and Copa del Rey final this season, but at the same time, one cannot expect that to continue year after year. Los Blancos lack options all across the pitch and a number of their key players are getting up there in age as well.
Thus, fans would be hoping that the club make some big signings in the summer. And one player that they have been linked with heavily for a while is Jude Bellingham of Borussia Dortmund.
Bellingham is viewed by many as a generational talent, who at 19 years of age is proven at the top level for both club and country, and is amongst the best midfielders in the world already. So, it is not hard to see why he could be a great addition for Real Madrid.
It looks like Real Madrid and Manchester City are the frontrunners for the signature of Bellingham. There had been suggestions that Liverpool were out of the race to sign him. But now, it looks like that might not be the case after all.
Liverpool transfer twist is bad news for Real Madrid
As reported by Empire of the Kop, Christian Falk wrote in an exclusive for CaughtOffside:
"“I don’t think that, at the moment, Jude Bellingham will stay at Dortmund for another year. So that’s the bad news for Liverpool.“But the good news is that I heard from Liverpool that the club is not out of the race. They are still hoping to have a chance.“They pulled out because the money around the deal is too much but at the moment no other club is paying it so they see a chance still and they have a piece of the puzzle which could help in this matter.“Slaven Stanic, a good friend of Jürgen Klopp’s, is now still working for the management of the Liverpool boss. And now he’s in talks to become the right-hand man of Sebastian Kehl, Dortmund’s sporting director, as sport coordinator.“And he knows, of course, about the big interest of Klopp in Bellingham and could be a middleman to bring both sides together.“So it’s not off the table. And now there is hope in Liverpool that perhaps they could come back to the negotiating table again.“But Liverpool are out if anyone pays €150m earlier than the Reds. However, I think this personality can help. Jürgen Klopp is always saying ‘we have no chance, we have no chance’. Don’t believe him – he’s also still hoping.”"
Thus, it looks like Liverpool are still not completely out of the race to sign Bellingham. Of course, it all depends on if a club are ready to pay a €150 million transfer fee to sign him.
To be very honest, it is hard to see Real Madrid shelling out that kind of a figure for Bellingham either. But then, one cannot rule out the possibility of them springing out a surprise.