Jude Bellingham 'passed away' from Guardiola's interest in the summer

The Manchester City had to 'shot' the signing of Jude Bellingham in summer, but the insistence of the mediocentro finish weighing to finish playing in the Real Madrid, although the offer 'sky blue' convinced more to a Borussia Dortmund that pretended to invoice 120 million net euros by the traspaso. At the end, the operation closed in 105 'kilos' fixed more €30m in variables.

In this sense, the chain 'BE' filtered the one who could be the key moment that cleared the way to the Madrid for fichar to the footballer of 20 years. According to the information spread in the program 'Hour 25', Pep Guardiola had a talk with the English player to try convince him to return to his country, but the one of Stourbridge left clear to the Catalan technician that his wish was to dress the white T-shirt.

Guardiola Could not fichar to the piece that needed this summer

The course of Ílkay Gundogan to the FC Barcelona, added to the injury of Kevin Of Bruyne, left to the Manchester City a gap in the centre of the field that, for the moment, has not attained to cover. With the exit of Gündo, Pep saw in Bellingham the ideal profile to keep his offensive block in the centre of the field, but the one of Sampedor did not attain to do change to resemble Jude the one who already had taken the decision to go to Spain from did a year.

In accordance with the chain 'BE', Juni Calafat, director of football, and José Ángel Sánchez, general director of the Madrid did the 'task' several months before the end of the 2022/23 for 'tie' to the English, conscious of the interest of the City and others 'big' European with a greater economic power. Finally, Florentino fichó to the mediocentro and the footballer has not taken in answering to the expectations that generated his signing. In the meantime, the City tries apurar the return of Of Bruyne to go out of the bajón suffered in the last weeks.