{"id":556492,"date":"2020-07-02T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=556492"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T14:13:29","slug":"report-jude-bellingham-completes-move-to-borussia-dortmund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/02\/report-jude-bellingham-completes-move-to-borussia-dortmund\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Jude Bellingham Completes Move to Borussia Dortmund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/tag\/birmingham-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Birmingham City<\/a> teenager Jude Bellingham has snubbed a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a> by signing for <a href=\"\/tag\/borussia-dortmund\/\" target=\"_self\">Borussia Dortmund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>REPORT: Jude Bellingham Completes Move to Borussia Dortmund<\/h2>\n<h3>Dortmund Over Manchester United<\/h3>\n<p>Jude Bellingham has shot into the headlines after rapidly rising through the ranks at Birmingham City.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager &#8211; who turned 17 last month &#8211; became the Blues&#8217; youngest-ever player after making his debut aged just 16 years and 38 days.<\/p>\n<p>Since his first appearance for the Midlands side, in the Carabao Cup, Bellingham has established himself within Pep Clotet&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager has made 35 appearances for Birmingham City in the Championship so far this season. He has added four goals and three assists to City&#8217;s campaign too.<\/p>\n<p>And he has continued to impress in his central midfield role and has also offered a service on the left or right.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to Christian Falk, the teenager has completed a move to Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">True: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BVB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@bvb<\/a> and Jude Bellingham is a done deal <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BILD_Sport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BILD_Sport<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christian Falk (@cfbayern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cfbayern\/status\/1278792680504516610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Stourbridge-born teenager has also begun to emerge onto the international scene having represented England at Under-15, Under-16 and Under-17 level.<\/p>\n<p>Previous <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/06\/26\/report-bayern-munich-not-interested-in-jude-bellingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> claim that an agreement has been made with Dortmund to pay \u00a320 million for the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>It has been widely reported that Bellingham has been a long-term target for Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>The Black and Yellows have reportedly been keeping tabs on Bellingham since the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund have a track record of developing young stars which would understandably be attractive to Bellingham.<\/p>\n<p>The progression of stars such as <a href=\"\/tag\/jadon-sancho\/\" target=\"_self\">Jadon Sancho<\/a>, Erling Braut Haaland and Gio Reyna all symbolise the club&#8217;s effect.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland was already a wanted target when he joined Dortmund from RB Salzburg; however, 16 goals and three assists since joining prove his ever-growing stock.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund will be pleased to have beaten Manchester United to Bellingham.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils reportedly went as far as giving the teenager a tour of their Carrington training complex to sway him.<\/p>\n<p>But it appears that Bellingham has chosen development over the spotlight of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"r-5rn1lQQaBOgI04SO8koA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1205773024\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'r-5rn1lQQaBOgI04SO8koA',sig:'1z88GOdDvnWSXZgITy3ohz8V_iFSxWAKPqVbFZvYn84=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1205773024',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City teenager Jude Bellingham has snubbed a move to Manchester United by signing for Borussia Dortmund. REPORT: Jude Bellingham Completes Move to Borussia Dortmund Dortmund Over Manchester United Jude Bellingham has shot into the headlines after rapidly rising through the ranks at Birmingham City. The teenager &#8211; who turned 17 last month &#8211; became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":556497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,33,32,2,18,3],"tags":[1318,52,168,4097,36,136],"class_list":["post-556492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-championship","category-league-football","category-featured","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-birmingham-city","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-efl","tag-jude-bellingham","tag-manchester-united","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}