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Bellingham's deal is done?

Huge move by Real, he will be one of the best midfielders in world football for the next 10+ years.

They now have 4 midfielders with huge potential (Bellingham, Tchouameni, Camavinga and Valverde) and are ready to start replacing their senior midfielders.
I'm glad that Modrić will be staying for another year - he deserves it. Not sure they will keep Kroos now, though.

No one can know in soccer ten years ahead, that's too much. How many young players have had hope and then, like Bojan Krkic, disappeared somewhere in the lower leagues.
The competition in La Liga is higher than in the Bundesliga, so it won't be easy for Bellingham.
He is only 19 years old and has played only 2 seasons at a serious level and scored 8 goals a season, which is not much.

As if it was not then with Naby Keita, whom Liverpool bought for 50 million pounds, and after 5 years he leaves as a free agent not really needed.

The sad part is Bellingham can become a bench player next season.
Look at Tchouameni. He was bought for 80 million Euros and he has been on the bench for Madrid and is even planning on leaving during this transfer window. There are tones of young players that have been highly rated like that but didn't have anything to show for it. A few even won the best young player of the year award.
Monaco even had a balon d'or clause to Martial's deal when they sold him to Manchester United because he was that good. So predicting that a 19 year old player going to Madrid would be among the best midfielders in the world for the next 10+ years is reaching. Very few players go to Madrid at such a young age and turn out to be the best in their position.

Now it depends on performance whether he can show what Madrid expects or not because if he doesn't then it will be very difficult for his future.
But on the other hand I still feel that in this case Madrid will try to give him hours to adapt to be better, the reason is simple, Kroos and Modric are getting older and indeed now is the right thing to give some young players a chance with their current condition.