It says everything about Jude Bellingham that, at the age of 17, he has decided to live and work in a high-pressure environment in a foreign country as he prepares to join Borussia Dortmund. Since 1992, 49 teams have had a tilt at top-flight glory, and the stats make grim reading for some of the game's biggest names, Championship clubs alarmed by June 20 restart date as positive tests stack up, League One split over resumption and relegation rows in League Two (as National League leaders Barrow wait on tenterhooks)... the situation in the EFL ahead of next week's votes, 'I understand there's going to be more speculation': Jude Bellingham's manager Pep Clotet expects more interest in the 16-year-old Manchester United target when games resume, Manchester United are 'planning to raid Birmingham for Jude Bellingham's 15-year-old brother Jobe' in sensational double transfer swoop, Ashley Cole's other London club, Jordan Henderson wearing blue and Sir Alex Ferguson's strangest signing as Manchester United boss... the loan spells you've forgotten about, A billionaire with no cash, the man who changed club colours for 'luck'... and some chickens! Birmingham's teenage sensation has attracted interest from United and Borussia Dortmund and already has offers on the table from both clubs. Fans reacted with bemusement, branding Birmingham's decision 'the most embarrassing thing a football club has ever done' and 'the most tinpot thing I've ever seen in my life.'. With the Premier League season finally finished following a long delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic the transfer window officially opens today. In a statement the Blues, currently in 16th place in the Sky Bet Championship table, indicated that the 43-year-old had reached his own decision to depart.
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Birmingham wonderkid Bellingham 'will become Dortmund's record signing this summer' after the German club saw off competition from Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea.