🚨Jude Bellingham on his friendship with Erling Haaland:
🎙️ Interviewer: “Jude, earlier in the tunnel we saw you playfully kick Erling Haaland, and during the match you were both laughing while waiting for a free-kick. Tell us about your friendship.”
🗣️ Jude Bellingham:
“That’s just our thing. During our time at Dortmund, we were always kicking each other after someone scored or even in training. It was never anything serious—it was just our way of saying hello.
So when I saw him in the tunnel today, I used our little formula again. People probably thought it was strange, but for us it’s completely normal. He knew exactly what I was doing and just laughed.
Now I’m at Real Madrid and he’s at Manchester City, we don’t get to see each other as often, so whenever we meet, we always have a laugh. I know how much he tried to convince me to join Manchester City back then, and we still joke about it today.
Once the whistle goes, though, everything changes. He’s fighting for Norway, I’m fighting for England. There are no favours on the pitch. We both want to win.
After the game, we’re friends again. That’s football. You compete with everything you’ve got for 90 or 120 minutes, then you leave it all on the pitch and enjoy seeing your friends again.”
🚨 Jude Bellingham: “I was on a yellow card and my mother kept saying to me all week:
Watch your tackles, don’t speak too much, and keep yourself calm.” 😂
🚨 Jude Bellingham on Tuchel’s criticism: “Maybe he doesn’t know what it’s like to play in those conditions against Haaland, Ødegaard, Nusa and Sørloth”.
“That’s not an easy team to play against.”