With the 2023/24 football season over, Manchester United players are preparing for a busy summer of international football. Fans can look forward to plenty of action from the European Championships and Copa America to the Olympics.
It will allow rising players to perform their way towards a career-defining transfer. That big move most professional footballers crave.
Manchester United centre-back Harry Maguire revealed in a Sky Sports interview that he tried to convince Jude Bellingham to move to Old Trafford after their first training session.
The defender says he knew within one or two training sessions with Bellingham that he was a special talent. Although United tried to sign him from Birmingham City, he decided to move to Borussia Dortmund where he established himself on the European stage.
On Saturday night, however, Bellingham faces his former club Dortmund in the Champions League as one of Real Madrid’s star players. The world is his oyster and it can be yours too with Crypto casinos you can trust.
Maguire also admitted he went back to United and told the club about Bellingham in an attempt to push for the transfer, knowing that he was set to become a world-beater.
The United defender said: “I can’t speak highly enough of Jude, he came to England and I knew within one or two sessions how he’d go.
“I went back to my club and I told them all about him but he took a different path and he’s done really well for Real Madrid. I knew he would when he signed there and long may it continue.”
Unfortunately, Bellingham turned us down for Dortmund and didn’t think twice when Real Madrid came knocking on the door. He will go down as a player that got away from our fingertips.
Bellingham has already won the La Liga title in his first season at Madrid and they are favourites to win Saturday night’s Champions League final.
Sancho vs Bellingham
Two of England’s most expensive footballers go head-to-head in tomorrow night’s eagerly awaited final at Wembley.
One is considered to be the best footballer in the world and the other was a complete and utter disappointment at United.
Bellingham, 20, has more than justified the £88m transfer fee Madrid paid for him by scoring 23 goals this season and earning player of the year awards.
But that has not been the case for Sancho, who was banished from first-team activities at United earlier this season – before being sent back to Dortmund on loan.
Sancho and Bellingham were Dortmund team-mates in the past.