Bellingham, the other Madrid-Liverpool fight at "Mbappé price": an auction of 150 million

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Real Madrid

and

will fight tonight at the

to advance to the quarterfinals of the

.

A new battle between two teams that already met in the finals of

and

and in the

, always facing the madridistas.

But beyond the pitch, whites and '

' have been in a race against time for months to convince

English midfielder

who will say "goodbye" to

this summer .

He is the fourth most valuable footballer in the world, according to

, with a figure that reaches

only surpassed by

(180),

(170) and

(120).

He comes from starting the

with

and this season he has accumulated

in 33 games with the German team.

He is a finishing allfielder, capable of breaking lines in speed, and with a talent for the last pass.

I mean, he's good, very good.

It will be, even more so after Dortmund's elimination in the Champions League round of 16, the great jewel of the next summer market, once Mbappé and Haaland have their continuity assured for one more season in Paris and Manchester.

Dortmund assumes his departure, everyone loves Bellingham...

.

His decision, as this newspaper has been able to confirm, is between the two teams that are measured today at the Bernabéu.

The '

', with a veteran midfield led by

and with the young

chosen out of necessity, see the English as the helm of their future.

Madrid, meanwhile, wants to finish with Bellingham the poker of their midfield, where

(90 million market value),

(100) and

(50) already stand out.

They admit to Bellingham some of the virtues that always appear written in the wish book of the squad that will inherit the

: modern football, physicality, talent and verticality.

He has only lost two games this season, one due to cards and the other because his team was already classified in the group stage of the Champions League.

In Valdebebas they have been following the Englishman since his explosion at

, the city where he was born and grew up until scoring with the first team at

and 63 days.

From there he flew to Dortmund, taking a logical step in his career and turning down bigger clubs like Manchester United.

Because that is something that they value in the white team: the Bellingham family, with his father

and his mother

at the helm, have not wanted to take false steps despite the fact that their son has been in the media spotlight on the ball since adolescence.

or

.

The path is clear.

Third most expensive in history

The great concern that there is in the upper echelons of the white team is the price that they will have to put on the Dortmund table.

An "

", as they have defined it.

They believe in Chamartín that the auction for Bellingham, in which Manchester City has also tried to enter, will exceed 150

and would make him the third most expensive signing in the history of football, behind the

and

that PSG paid for

.

At the Bernabéu they doubt that they can exceed the economic capacity of the English, both in the price of the transfer and in the footballer's salary.

They trust, as has happened in signings like

(also 'stolen' from Liverpool),

, that the footballer's final wish prevails and that the good relations with

, CEO of Dortmund, do the rest.

Within Valdebebas, logical misgivings with British footballers also make noise, a connection that has not always gone well for Madrid.

.. A sector of the technical management cannot avoid remembering the negative cases, but another insists on the talent, the values, the professionalism and the '

' of Bellingham.

Despite his shyness, he speaks several languages ​​and they believe that Spanish would not be uncomfortable for him.

The footballer and his family have not yet decided their future and have postponed their final choice to within a few weeks.

In this sense, the tie between Madrid and Liverpool will not be decisive, but it will be important.

The 'reds' are

in the Premier League, although with one game less, and being left out of the Champions League so soon could be a turning point in the season.

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