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Aaron Catterson-Reid

How Arsenal missed out on £25m Jude Bellingham transfer amid Liverpool and Real Madrid links

Borussia Dortmund star Jude Bellingham enjoyed an extremely productive evening during England's 3-0 win over Ivory Coast on Tuesday evening.

Bellingham has established himself as one of Europe's most promising talents since joining the Bundesliga giants from Birmingham City for just £25million two years ago. The teenage sensation has recently been linked with a move to both Liverpool and Real Madrid, but it is Arsenal that could have signed him when Dortmund snapped him up, according to Gunners hero Tony Adams.

Speaking to Sky Sports in November 2020, Adams said: "I think it got lost, this one, in the transition of the chief scout [Steve Morrow] at Arsenal going out. He was spotted very early on, not by me, by the Arsenal recruitment office.

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