When he was a guest on the talkSPORT Breakfast program a few days ago, former Birmingham captain Harry Dean talked about Real Madrid midfielder Bellingham. He said that the latter's one action in training made him realize that this young teammate was destined to achieve great things.
Bellingham made his first-team debut for Birmingham in a League Cup match at the age of 16 years and 38 days, but as a young player who played for Birmingham's U18 echelon at the age of 14, he has already been well-known within the first team.
Harry Dean played with Bellingham for a year at Birmingham. When the latter first started training with the first team, Harry Dean was deeply impressed by him: "He was never a talkative person, but he did not shy away from saying anything. I will always remember that if you have him in the team, even if he is only 16 Even if it's just in training, you will win. "
Harry Dean also recalled: "Every day, day after day, he was the best player. He came in at the age of 16 and he was the best player in every training session. He once passed a teammate, a senior player. He didn't say anything and then he was put down hard. He got back up and about five minutes later he was crotching the guy again. "But there was no smile on his face. He didn't do it to make fun of others. He just accepted it. All that. In terms of football at Birmingham, it was quite an old-school approach in terms of the team we had and the guys around him, and he just got up, sorted himself out and did it again." Bellingham and Harry Dean made a combined 35 appearances together in the 19/20 season. Bellingham played 44 times for Birmingham that season and contributed 4 goals and 2 assists. After helping Birmingham successfully avoid relegation, Bellingham joined Dortmund for a transfer fee of more than 20 million pounds in July 2020, and three years later he joined Dortmund for 89 million pounds