Jude Bellingham has taken Real Madrid and World Football by a storm right now!
He’s gathered 15 goals + 4 assists in just 16 games for Real Madrid breaking the records of Puskas, Di Stefano and Ronaldo himself. All of this while just recently turning 20 years old, with his entire career ahead of him.
What he’s doing is unheard of, perhaps only Ronaldo Fenomenon himself had a better start to the season than him as a 20 years old.
The differentiator however is his impact in the game, he’s truly bossing the free role at Madrid contrubuting in goals, assists, key passes, dribbles, crosses, headers, flicks, finishing, playmaking, 1-2 passing, off ball movements, interceptions, tackles, positioning, strength, dominating, work rate and even leadership… There is truly nothing that this boy can’t do!
I genuinely cannot point a single weakness in his game right now, he’s top of the charts for almost all attributes since the start of the season. So these achievements so far in the season brings the question, What is his ceiling as a footballer provided he continues this streak? Generational? All-Timer? GOAT candidate?
Greatest english player of all time if he stays injury free and consistent
Greatest English player of all time will be decided when he hangs his boots. But I’ll say he is definitely on track with his performances at the moment.
Bit of a push.
He’s at the right club but decades of watching has taught me there is no guarantee of progressions football isn’t linear 🤷 it only takes an ACL injury for a career set back
It’s hard to think he’s gonna get better. He’s already crazy good. It’s consistency that’ll really make him great. Nobody expects the scoring to continue because it’s crazy but he’s the type to have a good game without having to score so he’ll be just fine when the scoring slows down.
Ye in terms of short term form this is as good as it will ever get for him. Outscoring the greatest goalscorer or all time… From midfield.
The question is what can he do long term.
I didn’t expect him to score this many and I don’t think anyone else did either. He wasn’t brought to RM to be one of their main goalscorers, this kind of happened by accident. I can see him maybe getting 20+ goals per season on a regular basis over the next 8 years or so, but probably quite a few less if they bring in an elite striker like Mbappé, who would need to be getting on the end of most goals.
Who else was going to score the goals for them though? Not exactly got world class forwards do they apart from maybe Vini who is overrated by the media.
Its La Liga we are talking about not the PL , players are good because they are good not because English media pumps them up. Vini is genuinely a star.
Actually I do expect the scoring to continue as long as he plays in those positions.
He has great finishing, his goal scoring ratio this season is not luck.
If Madrid signs a true 9 and see that the team plays better with Bellingham on the center of the pitch, then yeah he’s not going to score as often
But this season? I’d bet he’s going to destroy Lampard’s record.
Yeah it’s the consistency AND the moments that will dictate his legacy for me. He doesn’t need to keep up this level of scoring but if he shows up in a major way in int. tournaments and CL KOs then sky is the limit.
He’s a more prolific scorer at real Madrid (so far) than at Dortmund. He never really needed to score to have a great match at Dortmund and influence a game.
Goat level
Sky is the ceiling
Wait until you get in a plane…
Dude IS the ceiling. If he doesn’t get injured, he’s a GOAT candidate. If he does get injured, he’ll still be a generational talent, assuming it’s not too soon. “Injured” includes both physical and other issues of course, who knows if he decides to burn down his house with fireworks or crashes his fancy car.
Generational means once in a generation(or least it used to be) reserved for that special player who comes along once every 20 years or so. Pele, MAradonna, R9, Messi. People said Mbappe was this generations generational talent. Then it was Haaland and now its Jude hmmm. I think that word has just about lost all meaning
GOAT candidate wtf lol
There can be drops in form without injuries. I’m not saying it is, but it could just be a purple patch we’re witnessing. Let him finish a season first
The most complete player of all time?
If he can keep up the scoring I dont think there’s ever been a player as complete and versatile as him. So many “complete” players cant defend for shit
He’s playing like Gerrard would have had he gone to Madrid at his peak and played with the best all around him.
Real Madrid fans are panicking for Jude, guys enjoy this spell if it ends today or tomorrow, at least you would have enjoyed it until it lasted. Stop think negatively
Just hope that he dont get injured. He is the most likely to be one of the best in his generation. But be like cristiano or messi, its too early to say.
The ceiling is the roof
I think he has a chance to be the greatest midfielder ever.
Does England have the current best (on form) attacker and midfielder in the world?
It’s ok we have an actual spoon for a manager so it’ll go nowhere.
When last did you have a decent English manager? That’s the price you have to pay for the heavy reliance on foreign managers
Saka and Foden have also been very good lately. Unfortunately Southgate’s dumb decisions will probably lead them to another disappointment this summer.
Spain has Rodri, Gavi, Pedri, Zubimendi, Deni Olmo, Merino Aleix Garcia, Sancet. They’re very stacked in midfield.
Spain have always been stacked (the European country I love the most football wise) and that’s why they were called underachievers before 2008 euro win
England has the best squad they had in their whole history.
Man for man, England had a more stacked starting XI in the 2000s than now. They had world class players in every position in those days. This England team performs better and is also pretty stacked but not quite world class in every position yet. Like another person said, the 2000s England team mostly peaked around kind of the same time (2004-06) but this one has more of a mix of veterans and youngsters so they should be decent for longer.
maybe nostalgia but the squad with Lampard, Beckham, Gerrard, Terry, Scholes, Rooney is the best for me
Darius Vassell and Phil Neville our first options off the bench in that Euros…
In terms of player by player that squad was better I think. But todays squad is much more balanced and can actually get along.
Yes
But we only have one top class CB, our best DM and part of our ideal midfield (Phillips, Rice, Bellingham) never plays for his club and we have no depth in any central positions - just plenty of full backs and wide forwards.
our best DM and part of our ideal midfield
Phillips?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gerrard, Lampard, Terry and so on, even Kane and Saka now, were/are all incredible players, but I’ve been desperate for an English player to really burst through and get into Balon Dor contention, 200 million transfer to Madrid level for ages. It was supposed to be Joe Cole back when he was 15 in the 1990s. It’s so exciting to see what Bellingham is doing.
I mean he often gets forgotten but Micheal owen was this level before injuries like ballon d’or worthy level hence he won one.
Rooney’s a great example, he, Ronaldo, Messi, even Modric, would have all been around at the same time back in 2004-2006 but CR7 and Messi pushed on to 55 goals in 55 matches seasons, multiple balon dor superstar status, Rooney hovered around a 8/10 elite level player. Don’t get me wrong, Rooney had an incredible career, but it’s the difference between being in the top 5 players of all time or being like 47th.
At the moment Bellingham is potentially on a top 10 goat trajectory, which is so exciting.
Rooney 47th all time is probably generous tbh.
Rooneys fitness didn’t do him any favours
Funnily enough, Owen himself has come out today or yesterday and said he never really was the best player even when he won that. Zidane, Kaka, Shevchenko, Brazilian Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, even Kahn, for me from the early 2000s. Shearer was better than Owen.
I certainly remember when Owen was on a trajectory to annihilate England’s record goalscorer target though, before it all soured.
I thought English fans didn’t care about that, or were they just pretending not to care because they didn’t have any star that was that big?
Bro you had one. His name was Rooney. At 18 he looked dead cert to be in contention for baloon doors. Potential is a funny thing. Rooney had 1 world class season in a long career. Who would have thought that back in 2004?
Injury free and Consistent?
If he manages that then he’s Messi and Ronaldo combined.
Depends on who surrounding him. This is a team game. Any of you who watch Dortmund like I do would not have predicted this kind of production. Even when he was at Dortmund, he played with Haaland, Sancho, and Reus, but did not play at this level.
So, what changed? He moved to Madrid where every player is elite. Even the manager is elite who knows how to manage elite players. I predict his status will rise and fall along with the status of Real Madrid.
You seem like a guy who knows football.
Please tell me how is Bellingham suddenly this good, seriously there’s no logic, i really mean it.
I used to be one of those who said Real Madrid will slow down Bellingham’s growth, but i proved to be very wrong.
If elite players is causing that performance then why other RM players aren’t able to replicate his levels.
I think the manager gets a lot of credit.
His utilisation. The next manager may use him differently. Benzema didn’t bang in many goals last season, but Bellingham seem to be the one scoring most. So what happened to the others that were doing it? It’s simple — how he’s being used.