Jude Bellingham to use Erling Haaland transfer strategy to decide future amid Man City interest

Manchester City transfer target Jude Bellingham looks set to use a similar strategy to Erling Haaland when deciding his next club, according to CBS journalist Ben Jacobs.

Bellingham has attracted interest from top clubs in England and across Europe, including Chelsea, Liverpool, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.

The 19-year-old looks set to leave Borussia Dortmund next summer, with a number of clubs preparing for a huge bidding war with Bellingham’s contract set to expire in 2025.

The England international could boost his transfer value further with a strong performance at the World Cup in Qatar over the next few weeks after Dortmund had placed a £110million price tag on their star midfielder in the summer.

CBS journalist Ben Jacobs has told Football Transfers that Bellingham could use a similar approach former Dortmund teammate Erling Haaland took before joining Manchester City to decide his future next summer.

Ben Jacobs said: “I think [Jude] Bellingham, from what I gather, will do exactly what [Erling] Haaland did [while deciding his choice of club before joining Manchester City].”

Jacobs elaborated, “He’ll [Jude Bellingham] score who he joins dispassionately, which is really key. So, when Haaland joined Manchester City, of course he looked at the sentiment and the fact that his father played for the football club.”

“But he also created a bunch of columns, ranging from manager to teammates to training facilities to where the team was to pay packet to City and so on.”

“And some of them were objective categories and some of them were subjective categories.”

“He scored them and he had a gut instinct from what I understand, that Manchester City were his favourite club, but the data and all these columns from a more dispassionate, neutral sense added up.”

“He scored all the suitors and Manchester City were top of the list, and I think Bellingham will do the same and that’s going to be very important.”

The report shared on Twitter gathered a number of replies from a wide range of Man City supporters.

“So he’s joining City?”
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“If this is true then we’ve won.”
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“Surely he signs for city then. Haaland did same process and decided City was best place, surely Jude doesn’t get a different result?”
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“If he uses the same system, surely it will have the same outcome.”
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“United are clearly out of the picture then.”
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