Chelsea transfer target Jude Bellingham looks set to use a similar strategy to Erling Haaland when deciding his next club.
Bellingham has attracted interest from top clubs in England and across Europe, including Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. The 19-year-old looks set to leave Borussia Dortmund next summer, with a number of clubs preparing for a huge bidding war with Bellingham's contract set to expire in 2025.
The England international could boost his transfer value further with a strong performance at the World Cup in Qatar over the next few weeks after Dortmund had placed a £110million price tag on their star midfielder in the summer. Todd Boehly is said to have already put plans in place to give the Blues a jump on their rivals in the race to sign the super-talent, but Chelsea will need to pass in a number of key areas to sign Bellingham, it seems.
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CBS journalist Ben Jacobs has told Football Transfers that Bellingham could use a similar approach former Dortmund teammate Erling Haaland took before joining Manchester City to decide his future next summer. Jacobs said: "I think [Jude] Bellingham, from what I gather, will do exactly what Haaland did [while deciding his choice of club before joining Manchester City].
"He'll [Bellingham] score who he joins dispassionately, which is really key. So, when Haaland joined Manchester City, of course, he looked at the sentiment and the fact that his father played for the football club.
"But he also created a bunch of columns, ranging from manager to teammates to training facilities to where the team was to pay packet to City and so on. And some of them were objective categories, and some of them were subjective categories.
"He scored them, and he had a gut instinct, from what I understand, that Manchester City were his favourite club, but the data and all these columns from a more dispassionate, neutral sense added up. He scored all the suitors, and Manchester City were top of the list, and I think Bellingham will do the same, and that's going to be very important."
Boehly will need to be able to convince Bellingham that Chelsea are a club on the rise, along with reassuring the 19-year-old that the club will be able to outperform the likes of Madrid, City and Liverpool across all competitions, whilst investing in developing key infrastructure around the club. The Blues may be behind in that sense at present, but a lot can change before the summer transfer window next year.
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