Jobe Bellingham to follow in Jude’s footsteps as Sunderland agree deal with Dortmund | Sunderland

Jobe Bellingham is poised to swap Sunderland for Borussia Dortmund after the golf equipment agreed an preliminary price of round £28m, doubtlessly rising to £32m.

The 19-year-old England Underneath-21 midfielder, the youthful brother of Actual Madrid’s Jude Bellingham, has simply performed a key half in serving to Sunderland to safe promotion to the Premier League however is now following in his sibling’s footsteps and heading to the Bundesliga.

Jude Bellingham spent three years at Dortmund and his optimistic expertise helped to tell Jobe’s choice to withstand not solely Sunderland’s makes an attempt to influence him to stay on Wearside however critical curiosity from Eintracht Frankfurt and RB Leipzig.

The youthful Bellingham joined Sunderland from Birmingham for £1.5m in 2023 and, in the midst of 90 appearances, has since been scouted extensively by golf equipment at dwelling and overseas. Final summer season he signed a brand new contract on the Stadium of Gentle however that deal was simply as a lot about defending his future worth as tying him all the way down to north-east England. Underneath the phrases of a sell-on clause inserted within the settlement reached with Dortmund, Sunderland will likely be due 15% of his subsequent switch price.

If, as anticipated, Bellingham passes sure milestones in Germany, and the price will increase to £32m, it would break Sunderland’s report for an outbound switch, established by Jordan Pickford’s £30m sale to Everton in 2017. It will additionally make him Dortmund’s costliest acquisition, narrowly eclipsing the sum they invested in Ousmane Dembélé in 2016.

In an interview with the French radio station RMC final week Régis Le Bris, the Sunderland supervisor, was unstinting in his reward for Bellingham. “The participant is extremely fascinating,” Le Bris mentioned. “He’s nonetheless very younger and has monumental room for enchancment. However his persona can be nice; he’s extraordinarily aggressive, extraordinarily intense. Jobe is a man with a beautiful persona. It’s been a beautiful encounter.”

Sunderland have already bought the winger Tommy Watson, scorer of the profitable aim within the playoff last in opposition to Sheffield United, to Brighton for £10m whereas paying Roma £20m to show Enzo Le Fée’s mortgage right into a everlasting switch.