{"id":624093,"date":"2023-06-14T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=624093"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:55:33","slug":"rising-star-signs-for-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/14\/rising-star-signs-for-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Done Deal: Rising English Star Signs for Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/08\/sunderland-transfer-news-5\/\" target=\"_self\">Sunderland<\/a> have today completed the signing of English rising star Jobe Bellingham from Birmingham City. The 17-year-old England U18 international is the brother of Jude Bellingham and he will finalise the move to Wearside when he returns from international duty. The length of the contract and the fee has yet to be announced<\/p>\n<p>The Bellingham brothers have close links with the Black Cats hierarchy. Sporting director Kristjaan Speakman, first-team coach Mike Dodds and head of coaching Stuart English have all played a part in their development.<\/p>\n<p>Bellingham&#8217;s transfer was confirmed via the official Sunderland website <a href=\"https:\/\/safc.com\/news\/team-news\/2023\/june\/safc-reach-agreement-for-jobe-bellingham\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">safc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>English Rising Star Jobe Bellingham Seals Move to Sunderland<\/b><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u270a We are delighted to announce that an agreement has been reached with Birmingham City for the transfer of Jobe Bellingham. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SAFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sunderland AFC (@SunderlandAFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunderlandAFC\/status\/1668998670199451651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>New Black Cat and Rising English Star Delighted to Have Signed<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking after the deal had been agreed, Sunderland&#8217;s new youngster <a href=\"https:\/\/safc.com\/news\/team-news\/2023\/june\/safc-reach-agreement-for-jobe-bellingham\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jobe Bellingham said<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m delighted to sign for Sunderland AFC and I can\u2019t wait to get started. The opportunity for young players to move here and progress is clear, so I believe this is the perfect Club for me to continue my development. I\u2019m grateful to everyone at Birmingham City for their support over the past 11 years and I wish them the best for the future, as I begin the next chapter of my career at the Stadium of Light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland&#8217;s new star also extended his thanks to his former club Birmingham City where he has spent the last 11 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/jobe-bellingham-sends-birmingham-city-27123236\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m grateful to everyone at\u00a0Birmingham City\u00a0for their support over the past 11 years and I wish them the best for the future, as I begin the next chapter of my career at the Stadium of Light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bellingham, who made his full debut for Birmingham City last season against Sunderland, played 26 times for the Blues and follows his brother Jude, who has signed for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadrid\/status\/1668922827741753344?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Madrid<\/a>, in making a summer transfer move.<\/p>\n<p>Image of Sunderland Stadium of Light courtesy of Wikimedia Commons <a title=\"User:The JPS\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:The_JPS\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">User: The JPS\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising Star Signs for Sunderland: The Black Cats have confirmed the signing of the brother of a current England international.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":624413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[32,33,22,28],"tags":[1318,9810,6579,1179],"class_list":["post-624093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-sunderland","category-transfers","tag-birmingham-city","tag-jobe-bellingham","tag-sunderland-transfer-news","tag-transfer-news"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624093","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}