Roar Podcast: Reaction to Jobe Bellingham's move to Borussia Dortmund

Sunderland Echo

On the latest episode of the Roar Podcast, Phil Smith and Jason Jones react to the news that Jobe Bellingham has joined Borussia Dortmund in a club-record deal for Sunderland.

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00:00when we spoke last week joe bellingham had decided he wanted to go to borussia dortmund so we kind of

00:06knew that it was probably going to happen at some point it has since happened um for a fee

00:12around the region of 30 million quid with the selling included what's your initial kind of

00:17reaction a day on from from belliam's exit being confirmed yeah it's a weird one this isn't it

00:24because i kind of feel that it's been so long in the often and it became such an inevitability that

00:32i almost like steeled myself against it i mean like i'm not necessarily as uh as gutted by this

00:39as i would have uh expected myself to be i think that obviously you know from a footballing point

00:46of view it's going to be a big loss to sunderland's we know how pivotal he was um in in that promotion

00:53campaign we've seen how much he's grown and matured and the trajectory that he's been on over these

00:58past two years and so obviously you know there are it's it's a big vacuum that some are going to have

01:04to fill in the middle of the park from a business standpoint um i think some of them have done a

01:10really good job to be perfectly honest with you obviously we've spoken so much about the the model

01:15and and you know how this is arguably one of the best illustrations of it in practice and how

01:21successful it can be when you think about how much job came in for think about how much he's

01:25contributed to the side over the course of his time at the club and then you think about the

01:29fact that he's leaving for um for a club record fee or what should become a club record fee with add-ons

01:37jordan pickford was around that mark wasn't he but it will probably end up eclipsing that

01:41um and so in that sense i think that some of them really have to be commended you know that they

01:46dug their heels in they made it clear that they wanted a little bit more money than dortmund were

01:51initially stumping up um but they've held the ground they've done really well and i think that

01:56from the player's point of view it feels like a good next step in his career you know we've all seen

02:03how talented he is we know that there's the association between the bellingham family

02:08and dortmund as a club um and it does feel as if it's it's maybe one of those deals in a quite a rare

02:16thing in football but where all parties kind of come out of it feeling like they're they're in a good

02:22place at the other side of it

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