Liverpool’s reported £100m plan to sign ‘special’ player could be worthless in just six weeks

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Liverpool’s £100m plan to sign Jude Bellingham could be worthless in just six weeks. The Reds reportedly plan to sign the midfielder.

Sport Bild reported on Wednesday that Liverpool have held a meeting about Jude Bellingham. They really want to sign the Borussia Dortmund star and are committed to going all-out to get him.

That includes putting around £100m aside for a deal. That would be a club-record transfer, of course, and be an enormous statement of intent from the club.

And yet, this plan seems strange. In fact, it could be utterly worthless in six weeks’ time.

Liverpool’s £100m Jude Bellingham plan

We wrote exactly a year ago (to the day, strangely) that Bellingham should be Liverpool’s first £100m player. He ticks absolutely every box you’d want right now – the right position, the right playing style, the right age, and he’s even homegrown.

Not to mention his unbelievable talent. There’s a reason Pep Guardiola was raving about his ‘special’ talent recently.

But we wrote that thinking that Bellingham could move in 2022. Instead, he won’t move until 2023 and that makes any plans – even the £100m kind – pointless for now.

Bellingham’s reputation continues to rise, after all. He’s establishing himself as one of the best midfielders in Europe, not just a bright young talent with that kind of potential. Every single club on earth will want him.

It’s impossible to know what he’ll cost, however. Liverpool can plan to spend £100m but Bellingham could be worth significantly more than that if he has a good World Cup.

Fabrizio Romano recently claimed that Dortmund wouldn’t truly set their price until after the tournament and why would they? Performing well for England could see Bellingham’s value shoot up to £150m. That doesn’t feel like an exaggeration right now.

And so Liverpool may plan to spend a record-breaking £100m on Bellingham but it’s meaningless until after the World Cup. Maybe he doesn’t impress and other teams’ attentions turn elsewhere. Then £100m may get him.

In all likelihood, though, that amount isn’t going to get Bellingham next year and the World Cup could be the reason why.