Craig Burley, Steve Nicol, and Frank Leboeuf join Dan Thomas on ESPN FC to discuss Real Madrid and Jude Bellingham’s decision to delay necessary shoulder surgery until after the 2025 Club World Cup. The move will likely sideline Bellingham for around 12 weeks, causing him to miss the start of the 2025-26 LALIGA season.
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To win la liga ?? Real madrid have no chance ?
Madrid haters 😂😂
English pundits are just mad that only 2 English teams are in the Club World Cup, ignoring the fact that this competition is meant to give some exposure to other leagues worldwide and help improve their competitiveness with the Big money prizes.
What is bonkers is arguing about this. What is bonkers about wanting 125 mil and a trophy. Real Madrid is a business that want trophies. Craig go have a nap
😂 From 0:34 to 3:46 Craig is right and i agree with Steve about xabi and RM players attitude ðŸ˜
Real Madrid should have made Jude take that surgery as soon as they found out they are out of the league race…
FA cup is more unnecessary than Cwc
These idiots dont like friendlies nations league and now cwc
It will be better than epl no 17th place team can get europa
This dude is a clown
Rasmus 😂😂😂
The club world cup is bigger then the Champions League.
I hear what they're saying, but 120m is alot of money. And its true, with or without Jude Madrid will still be challenging next season. I mean they had him for the majority of this season and he did nothing so i dont get what the fuss is about. Play him in the CWC try and get the 120m and invest in the squad and get a proper 9 for crying out loud. Also what more should Mbappe do, the boy scored 40 goals in his debut season for this team and somehow he's always talked about in the negative. I don't get it
Real Madrid SPN
Ur talking rubbish, madrid is the biggest club, u like or not
Its all about money 💰
Imagine Craig now not covering the CWC for ESPN after saying it's a crappy competition lol
It's expected for non Madrid fans to not understand us trying to create history. We stand alone at the top, why do you expect to understand our thoutht process when you're not even half as great as we are?
Club world cup generates more money than even CL. Like if Bayern or Pool wins it, they get Wirtz for free.
The money makes it important and therefore they will try hard and interesting to watch.
Im looking forward to it therefore.
For all the nothing Madrid won this season. The surgery should’ve been done since last year. But go ahead Jude, let them run you into the ground
I am just convinced you guys are just talking for the sake of getting paid. True players aren’t getting rest/offseason break, but how many time y’all gonna complain about the same thing. We get it that the club World Cup is not important to you, but it’s important to them. It’s not just a trophy like Craig keep saying, there’s money in it.
They can't handle success
Dummy the is the biggest trophy for any club…
We dont know the degree of Bellingham’s injury…. If he thinks he is okay with that, I dont think anybody has anything else to say….the team winning the CWC will have to play about 3 crunch matches at the most…. Maybe RM is keeping him available but will not use him unless it is absolutely necessary…. Remember Brazil left out Romario in 1998 WC since he would not have been available for the group stage matches? And they didnt have any option for unfit Ronaldo in the final… we know what happened there. Who knows maybe Romario would have done the job in the final? Similar sitauation might arise here too….
And as for La Liga, if RM cant handle the low mid teams of la liga at the beginning of the season without bellingham….Probably they do not deserve to win La Liga in any case…
Wait why does Creig hate Real Madrid soo much. When dude is talking about Real i honestly can feel his hate for our club. Yet I don't see that with him when he talks about Fc Barcelona.. this same team that have been accused of paying refs for years and have bribed their way to even get the chance to compete in Laliga. Smh honestly 🤦 stop the hate plsssss.
ESPN fail to recognize the Real Madrid prioritizes any international trophy than the corrupt domestic Spanish football. We’d rather have Bellingham not play the useless LaLiga for one month than a competition where you can play against the best teams in the world.
If a Barca player did the same thing, biased ESPN would have said "Oh, what a committed player. What a passionate footballer"