Jude Bellingham will officially wear one of the iconic jersey numbers at Real Madrid and the jersey number 5 was once worn by one of Real Madrid's legendary players, Zinedine Zidane. It seems that Bellingham really wants this jersey number and he has also thanked Jesus Vallejo for agreeing to give him the jersey number 5. Bellingham doesn't want the number 22 shirt currently worn by Rudiger because he really wants to wear a new number from now on and it goes to number 5 at Real Madrid.
On the other hand, the reason for choosing number 5 is because Bellingham was very inspired by Zidane and it's only natural that if we pay close attention to Bellingham's style of play it is very similar to Zidane's. It looks like this will be a good start for Bellingham with Real Madrid and he can't wait to play alongside Modric and also Kroos in midfield.
I'm not going to compare any player, especially with players like Zidane but the fact about Bellingham is he is so young and he joined Real Madrid when he is 19y old, in the other hand Real Madrid is a team where you can have good coaches to improve your skills, that's why I think a player like Bellingham can have the chance to even become better than Zidane if everything goes well for this players because he got enough potential for it.