Jude Bellingham: Real Madrid’s Newest Signing
Jude Bellingham has completed his £115million transfer to Real Madrid, becoming the most expensive British player of all time. The 18-year-old midfielder is expected to slot into a perfect midfield with the likes of Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchoumeni. However, fans are more interested in what shirt number he will wear.
Real Madrid announced his arrival on Twitter with a picture of him in the club’s new shirt with a caption saying “Hey Jude” as a reference to the famous Beatles song. But what shirt number will he wear?
Jude Bellingham’s Shirt Number
Jude Bellingham has been given the number five shirt after being unveiled as a Real Madrid player. He follows in the footsteps of legend Zinedine Zidane who wore the same number during his spell at the Bernabeu.
Bellingham’s Transfer Fee
Bellingham’s transfer fee is the second-highest Real have paid for a player, which is little surprise that his arrival has been greeted with huge fanfare by Los Blancos.
What Shirt Number Was Bellingham Predicted to Wear?
There is one shirt number Jude Bellingham was predicted to take for the mighty Los Blancos – 22. Bellingham prefers number 22 as it represents his ability to operate in four, eight, and ten roles. And ex-Birmingham head of youth Mike Dodds confirmed this by revealing that Bellingham’s eyes ‘lit up’ when he was offered that number.
Dodds told talkSport in 2021: ‘We think you’re doing yourself a disservice, we think you can do all of it.’ So we came up with, ‘We think you can be a 22.’ “His eyes lit up, and we knew we had hooked him from then on in! We said we thought he could be a holding midfielder, or a four. We thought he could be a box-to-box [midfielder], which is an eight, and we thought he could be a scorer and a creator, so a 10.”
Conclusion
Jude Bellingham has completed his £115million transfer to Real Madrid and has been given the number five shirt. Fans were predicting him to take the number 22 shirt, but it seems that Real Madrid had other plans for him. Bellingham is expected to slot into a perfect midfield with the likes of Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchoumeni, and his transfer fee is the second-highest Real have paid for a player. It’s safe to say that his arrival has been greeted with huge fanfare by Los Blancos.