Owen on Bellingham’s start – ‘he is feeling less pressure than factory worker’
Real Madrid will go into El Clasico against Barcelona without Karim Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio Ramos, and it looks like there is a good chance that Luka Modric will be on the bench too, but they will have Jude Bellingham. It might seem quixotic, lazy, or for some downright disrespectful to add the 20-year-old’s name to that list. Clearly, Bellingham is yet to earn his place sitting alongside them in the pantheon of football Gods, but in terms of what he means to this Real Madrid? Bellingham has already made his groove in the couch.
Anyone who visits the Santiago Bernabeu will be struck by the number of ‘Bellingham 5’ shirts milling alongside them outside the ground. It took all of 36 minutes into his debut for his Angel of the North celebration to become the fashionable form of rounding off a goal in the playground. Just under four months into life in Madrid, it’s sort of hard to imagine that he could have been anywhere else this summer.
“Growing up as young, aspiring footballers you’re aware that in world football, Real Madrid probably sits alone as the most magical, biggest club. So I think it’s the pinnacle of anyone’s career, and not many people say no when they come in for you,” Michael Owen tells Football España in an exclusive interview with DAZN Bet.
“I was certainly like that. I saw myself spending my whole career at Liverpool, but when Real Madrid come knocking, you don’t say no, it’s just such a huge opportunity to play in amongst some of the world’s greats, and when I signed, it was the Galactico era.”
Already Bellingham has declared that he can see himself being in the Spanish capital for the next decade. There is no doubt an element of massaging the pressure points of a hyper-sensitive Madrid media
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