{"id":460322,"date":"2023-01-05T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=460322"},"modified":"2023-01-15T01:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T01:15:48","slug":"liverpool-report-real-madrid-steal-march-on-reds-in-jude-bellingham-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/liverpool-report-real-madrid-steal-march-on-reds-in-jude-bellingham-race","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool report: Real Madrid steal march on Reds in Jude Bellingham race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are losing ground to Real Madrid in the race to sign Jude Bellingham this summer, according to reports. The Reds have made the England international their top transfer target ahead of next season, as they look to rejuvenate their midfield. James Milner, Jordan Henderson and Thiago Alcantara are all the wrong side of 30, while Naby Keita&#8217;s contract is due to expire on June 30. Jude Bellingham was one of the stars of World Cup 2022 (Image credit: Getty Images) Liverpool were previously thought to be at the front of the queue to land Bellingham, but the saga has taken a twist over the last few weeks. According to the Independent , Real Madrid are increasingly confident that they will win the race to sign the teenager, who is expected to seek pastures new at the end of the current campaign. Bellingham, who is valued at &#163;97.1m by Transfermarkt , is happy to keep his options open for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool face an uphill battle to sign the Borussia Dortmund midfielder in the summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}