are edging closer to securing a deal for with the midfielder close to agreeing a mega-money, six-year contract.
Despite competition from the likes of , Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain, Spanish giants Real appear to have won the race for the teenager’s signature.
It was revealed earlier this month that Bellingham had , though there is still plenty of work to do before the deal is rubberstamped.
Nevertheless, the transfer is starting to feel like a formality and are reporting that negotiations between the Spanish giants and Bellingham’s camp have advanced rapidly.
Talks are now at a very advanced stage and the England international is expected to put pen to paper on a contract worth £17million per year – around £330,000-a-week.
Bellingham will be contracted to Real until 2029 and the deal is likely to include all manner of bonuses and performance-related add-ons.
An agreement between Dortmund and Real is less advanced, though the figure is expected to be just over €100m (£86.8m) – a fee that could be used as the benchmark for a lot of this summer’s biggest deals, including Declan Rice’s likely departure from West Ham.
Real want to wrap up the deal and announce it as soon as possible, with the club’s managing director Jose Angel Sanchez working flat-out behind the scenes.
After Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final second leg against Manchester City is out of the way, talks are expected to accelerate – though any official confirmation will not happen until after the conclusion of the Bundesliga season on May 27.
Dortmund are still in with a chance of winning the title but need to win their last two matches against Augsburg and Mainz and hope Bayern Munich slip up against RB Leipzig or Koln.
Ideally, Real would like Bellingham to learn from Luka Modric and they are confident of tying the Croatia international down to a new one-year extension.
The 37-year-old’s current deal expires in the summer and Real hope he will play through until the 2024 European Championships, when he is expected to retire, though he will have to accept a more reduced role upon Bellingham’s arrival.
There have been suggestions in the Spanish press that Real could be open to the possibility of selling Aurelien Tchouameni this summer once they have secured Bellingham, though they would expect to receive a fee in the region of £70m – which is roughly what they paid Monaco a year ago.
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