Dear Jude Bellingham – BVB chose not to sign Musiala | OneFootball

Borussia Dortmund has repeatedly managed in the past to sign top talents early and benefit both athletically and financially. However, unlike Ousmane Dembele, Jadon Sancho, or Erling Haaland, there was once a youngster who did not end up at BVB but has since become a global star: Jamal Musiala.

As TZ now reports, BVB also had Musiala on their radar during his time in Chelsea's youth academy. Dortmund’s scouting department regularly kept a close eye on the young Englishman and was quite impressed by his abilities. However, BVB was even more taken with Jude Bellingham, who was still at Birmingham City at the time but played alongside Musiala in England’s youth national teams.

Due to his better physical attributes and greater maturity on the pitch, BVB believed Bellingham was more likely to make the leap to the professional level and, after intensive efforts, invested around 30 million euros in the then 16-year-old in the summer of 2020, fully convinced of his potential. A year earlier, FC Bayern Munich, who had also been interested in Bellingham but unsuccessfully, won the race for Musiala, who quickly made his breakthrough at the record champions after a year of settling in.

Bellingham a Sporting and Financial Success

BVB has no reason to regret their decision in favor of Bellingham. The current world star brought in about four times the transfer fee paid to Birmingham with his move to Real Madrid in the summer of 2023 and was an absolute key player during his time in Dortmund.

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However, it was a bitter pill for BVB that it was Musiala who, on the final matchday of the 2022/23 season, secured the championship for FC Bayern with his last-minute goal to make it 2-1 against 1. FC Köln, simultaneously snatching the trophy away from BVB.

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