Bellingham Has Not Been Poor This Season – Eric Garcia

Popular football analyst, Eric Garcia has come out to say that Jude Bellingham has not been bad this season. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Bellingham is clearly the victim of his own high standards, and while he has not been poor this season, he has clearly not replicated the same heights he reached on his debut season.

Eric added that Jude has been good with his runs, but no one praises you at Madrid for making good runs.

His words, “I’ve got so much respect for a player who arrived at Real Madrid a year ago and then was the top scorer, and was the most impressive player who played for Real Madrid in the past five years, in the middle of the park, better than Toni Kroos and Luka Modric. In the end, you kind of put the standard just too high. Everybody was like, “OK, if Mbappe arrived and with Bellingham playing the way he’s been playing, it’s all done, we’re gonna win everything!” And the team wasn’t as balanced as we could expect. I think Kroos missing is something everybody talks about. It’s hurting so much. Injuries, again, missing players that would have been very, very important.

And Jude Bellingham is a normal human being. We were talking about those superheroes that were in La Liga a few years ago, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, they kept consistency for 15 years. He had a small lull, together with the team. But again, we saw fighting. We saw him suffering and struggling because he couldn’t deliver what everyone expected from him. But he’s been assisting, the same way he’s been trying to help in anything that Ancelotti is asking: on the left side, in the middle, behind the forward, everywhere. But in the end, the team is the one who hasn’t helped him or his football.

He hasn’t been poor. I think he’s been very good in his runs. When you’re in Real Madrid, no one is praising you for making all of the runs. That’s why Dani Carvajal is there, to make all the runs on the right side, or Mendy, or whoever is playing on the left side. At Real Madrid you are expected to show us your talent and skills and goals. I think we’ve been a little bit unfair, not for me, because I always praise him. I think that he is one of those players that anyone, any team, any manager would love to have on the team.”

WOW.

Jude Victor William Bellingham (born 29 June 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the England national team.

Bellingham joined Birmingham City as an under-8, became the club’s youngest ever first-team player when he made his senior debut in August 2019, at the age of 16 years, 38 days, and played regularly during the 2019–20 season. He joined Borussia Dortmund in July 2020, and in his first appearance became their youngest ever goalscorer. Over three seasons with the club he made 132 appearances, was a member of their 2020–21 DFB-Pokal-winning team, and helped them finish as runners-up in the 2022–23 Bundesliga. He signed for Real Madrid in June 2023.

Jude Victor William Bellingham was born on 29 June 2003 in Stourbridge, in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, the eldest son of Denise and Mark Bellingham. His father Mark was, until 2022, a sergeant in the West Midlands Police, and a prolific goalscorer in non-League football.

Bellingham’s younger brother, Jobe, is also a footballer. Bellingham attended Priory School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.