JUDE BELLINGHAM has completed his £115million transfer to Real Madrid – but fans are itching to know what shirt number he could wear.
Madrid announced his arrival on Twitter with a picture of him in the club’s new shirt with a caption saying “Hey Jude” as a reference to the famous Beatles song.
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And the most expensive British player of all time is expected to slot into a perfect midfield with the likes of Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchoumeni.
But whether he starts is not the question… it’s more about his shirt number.
However, SunSport may have figured out what the answer to that mystery will be.
What shirt number will Jude Bellingham wear at Real Madrid?
Jude Bellingham has been given the number five shirt after being unveiled as a Real Madrid player.
He follows in the footsteps of legend Zinedine Zidane who wore the same number during his spell at the Bernabeu.
Bellingham has become the most expensive British player of all time and his transfer fee is the second-highest Real have paid for a player.
So it is little surprise his arrival has been greeted with huge fanfare by Los Blancos.
What shirt number was Bellingham predicted to wear?
There is one shirt number Jude Bellingham was predicted to take for the mighty Los Blancos – 22.
Bellingham prefers number 22 as it represents his ability to operate in four, eight and ten roles.
And ex-Birmingham head of youth Mike Dodds confirmed this by revealing that Bellingham’s eyes ‘lit up’ when he was offered that number.
Dodds told talkSport in 2021: ‘We think you’re doing yourself a disservice, we think you can do all of it.’ So we came up with, ‘We think you can be a 22.’
“His eyes lit up and we knew we had hooked him from then on in! We said we thought he could be a holding midfielder, or a four. We thought he could be a box-to-box [midfielder], which is an eight, and we thought he could be a scorer and a creator, so a 10.”