Borussia Dortmund believes that Jobe Bellingham wants to join them before their transferrival, Talksport understands.
The Sunderland midfielder was interested in European clubs this summer.
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Bellingham previously had talks with Eintracht Frankfurt about a possible switch to the Bundesliga page.
The 19-year-old was just a few days after the championship play-off finals to Germany to visit the club’s facilities.
Frankfurt will compete in the Champions League next season after taking third place in the top German flight.
However, Dortmund is in the lead in the race for Bellingham’s signature.
It is not expected that personal conditions will be a problem, although a business with the black cats still has to be agreed.
After signing an extension last summer, Bellingham has three years in the Light Stadium in the Stadium of Light.
The Niko Kovac team is preparing for a 10th season in a row in the Champions League after ending her Bundesliga campaign in fourth place.
The 1997 European champion will also compete in the USA this month at the Club World Cup in the United States.
Dortmund was pulled alongside the Brazilian club Fluminense, the South African outfit Mamelodi Sundowns and the South Korean side Ulsan HD in the group stage.
Since he signed from Birmingham in 2023, he scored 11 goals and scored four templates in 90 games for the club.
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This includes all three play-off games in the last month when the team of Regis Le Bris won a return to the Premier League after seven years.
Since then, they have been won for a change for the former midfielder Jordan Henderson.
Sunderland weighed the graduates of the academy under contract again this summer.
As for Bellingham, he was able to imitate his older brother Jude to Dortmund before the next season.
The English international spent three years at BVB after signing Birmingham in 2020 as a 17-year-old.
He won the German Cup in his first season on the way to 132 appearances for Dortmund.
Real Madrid finally made Bellingham the most expensive British player of all time in 2023 by completing a 115 million pound deal to sign it.
Just two years later, he has already won five large trophies after lifting both Laliga and the Champions League in his debut campaign.