{"id":1861,"date":"2023-06-14T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2023-06-14T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:02:40","slug":"madrid-sign-bellingham-from-dortmund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/06\/14\/madrid-sign-bellingham-from-dortmund\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid sign Bellingham from Dortmund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Real Madrid confirmed the signing of Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund on a six-year deal on Wednesday, with the English international costing over 100 million euros ($108 million).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">German side Dortmund said an agreement for the 19-year-old had been reached last week with Madrid, worth 103 million euros plus up to 30 percent of that fee in bonuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bellingham\u2019s arrival continues Real Madrid\u2019s regeneration of their midfield, joining young French duo Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchouameni, to help phase out veterans Luka Modric and Toni Kroos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOur clubs signs one of the biggest talents in world football, a player who comes from Borussia Dortmund and arrives at Madrid after being chosen as the best player in the Bundesliga 2022-23 season,\u201d Madrid said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOn top of that, he is only 19 and is already a starter for the England national team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bellingham shone for Gareth Southgate\u2019s Three Lions at the World Cup last year, with England knocked out in the quarter-finals by runners-up France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The midfielder, who turns 20 later in June, signed for Dortmund from Birmingham in 2020 for 25 million euros, playing 132 games for the club and lifting the German Cup in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThank you to everyone at BVB and to the fans for everything over the past three years,\u201d Bellingham told Dortmund\u2019s club website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt was an honour to wear your shirt so often, in big and small moments. Even though I\u2019m looking forward to my next destination, I\u2019ll never forget the journey there. Once a Borussian, always a Borussian.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid confirmed the signing of Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund on a six-year deal on Wednesday, with the English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}