Liverpool have abandoned their plans to sign Jude Bellingham this summer due to the costs involved and have drawn up a shortlist of alternative midfielders to sign.
The Reds have been credited with an interest in Bellingham on a number of occasions in the past, with Jurgen Klopp a self-confessed admirer of the midfield ace. However, with a transfer fee for the England international set to go north of £100million – the club are now set to diversify.
It is Real Madrid who have emerged as the frontrunner for the signature of the teenage star and the Spanish giants went so far as to hold a transfer meeting with Bellingham’s father Mark in London ahead of Dortmund’s Champions League clash at Chelsea last month.
