{"id":180865,"date":"2025-09-25T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180865\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:14:07","slug":"premier-league-defender-asks-agent-to-open-talks-with-real-madrid-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180865\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League defender asks agent to open talks with Real Madrid – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jude Bellingham made his return from injury in Real Madrid\u2019s clash against Espanyol when he entered the field for just two minutes. <\/p>\n

He then continued his progression from the setback in the team\u2019s next game vs Levante, when he played 20 minutes coming off the bench.<\/p>\n

Now, as Real Madrid stare at a crucial clash against Atletico Madrid in the eye for this weekend, Xabi Alonso has serious doubts about the extent to which he must include Bellingham on the night.<\/p>\n

After all, there is little to no doubt that the player is heavily counted on by Alonso but the dilemma that exists in the coach\u2019s mind is over his physical preparedness to play such a high-intensity game.<\/p>\n

The big question<\/p>\n

As relayed in a recent report by AS<\/a>, Alonso is in a massive dilemma over whether or not to start Bellingham against Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n

The big factor that prevents him from handing the Englishman the de facto starting role is the player\u2019s lack of preparedness on a sporting level given that he is not match fit and has not yet started a game after returning from injury.<\/p>\n

\"JudeJude Bellingham has recently returned from injury. (Photo by Aitor Alcalde\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

In terms of his injury and recovery from the setback, the player is at 100% and it is clear that he faces no pain in the affected shoulder that underwent surgery. After all, 71 days have passed since his operation and the recovery is complete.<\/p>\n

As a result of the big question in his mind, the manager faces a second related dilemma \u2013 over who to drop between Arda Guler and Franco Mastantuono should he opt to give Bellingham a starting role. Only two of the three players can logically start.<\/p>\n

With three days remaining for the derby, Alonso\u2019s doubts are warranted and the player will not be given a role from the first minute in all likelihood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After all, it is said that Alonso has already had the conversation<\/a> with the player and that Bellingham understands his minor role on the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham made his return from injury in Real Madrid\u2019s clash against Espanyol when he entered the field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2640,49168,4898,31643,403,99],"class_list":["post-180865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-crystal-palace","tag-marc-guehi","tag-real-madrid","tag-real-madrid-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}