Bellingham overtakes De Jong as Man Utd’s number one target for 2023
FT Desk
- 8 Nov 2022 08:06 GMT
- 3 min read
Jude Bellingham has emerged as Man Utd’s number one target for the summer of 2023, according to Sky Germany.
Journalist Florian Pettenberg reports that Man Utd manager Erik ten Hag is a huge fan of the Borussia Dortmund midfielder, and his club have scouted him extensively recently.
Man Utd expect a transfer for Bellingham to cost around €150 million.
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The Englishman is one of the hottest properties in football right now, with a host of major clubs all interested in signing him.
What clubs are interested in signing Bellingham?
Liverpool were considered favourites, but the news that their owners FSG have put the club up for sale may now change that.
Real Madrid, Man City and Chelsea also would like to sign him.
Bellingham has overtaken Frenkie de Jong as Man Utd’s number one central midfield target.
Man Utd were in negotiations to sign De Jong for much of the summer, on the orders of Ten Hag.
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Barcelona are understood to have accepted an €85m bid from Man Utd in July, and made it clear to that they wanted him to move to Old Trafford.
In the end, De Jong refused to join Man Utd and stayed at Barcelona, despite interest from Chelsea and Bayern Munich as well.
This resulted in Man Utd signing Casemiro from Real Madrid for over €70m in order to fill their needs in central midfield.
However, Ten Hag still believes that Man Utd are at least one man short in centre midfield and wants to buy a more progressive player than Casemiro.
This has led the club to making Bellingham their main target for 2023.
Dortmund are expected to sell their star man next summer, having decided against losing him in 2022 during the same window that they lost Erling Haaland to Man City for €60m.
