Manchester United arrived agonisingly shut to securing the signing of Jude Bellingham prior to his Borussia Dortmund move, according to former fantastic Bryan Robson.
Bellingham has been a fixture in the Dortmund initial workforce ever considering that he arrived from Birmingham City as a 17-12 months-previous in the summer months of 2020.
Nonetheless 9 months small of his 20th birthday, the midfielder is by now closing on 150 senior appearances at club stage and is also an proven member of the England nationwide group.
The youngster has undoubtedly flourished at the Bundesliga club, who have an unrivalled popularity in the latest many years for developing promising talent.
But BVB were not the only side intrigued in his providers two decades back.
United too were being scorching on the Birmingham wonderkid’s path, and came close to signing him.
But finally Bellingham opted for Dortmund, who splashed out a reported 25 million to get their guy – a record value for another person of his age.
How United skipped out on Bellingham
“Sadly for us he made a decision to shift to Germany,” Robson admitted to the Solar.
We thought we more or a lot less experienced him. Myself, Sir Alex and Eric Cantona all fulfilled him with his mum and father at Carrington and right after that conference we believed he was coming to us.”
“Now there is talk about him moving up coming summer season and you see Liverpool outlined a large amount.
“We thought we experienced him and he would have been a great signing for us. But he certainly has it in him to come to be a fantastic player for England.”
