Conor Coady details the lengths two Liverpool players went to in trying to get Jude Bellingham to join

Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold moved heaven and earth to try and tempt Jude Bellingham to Liverpool.

That’s according to Conor Coady, who says that the duo were hot on the midfielder’s case at the World Cup in 2022.

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After two and a half years with Borussia Dortmund, Bellingham had the world’s top sides vying for his signature as England headed to Qatar.

Real Madrid were heavily linked with Bellingham, while Manchester City and Bayern Munich were also keen, but two of Bellingham’s England teammates clearly had their own idea about where the wonderkid should be move next.

Speaking to BBC 5Live, Coady said: “I think Hendo and Trent tried with Jude [to get him to sign]. At the World Cup, yeah 100 per cent.

“They man marked him,” Coady laughed. “They man marked the life out of him.

“I think those two tried it and if you’re at a club like that you would, wouldn’t you? Of course you would.

“When you know he is going to leave in the summer, which was quite common knowledge wasn’t it that he was going to leave and there was all these clubs in for him.

“So 100 per cent you would, without a shadow of a doubt.

“Oh it was [every meal time] and they were either side of him. One was always sat on that side and the other side.

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“And we were all sat there and they would be talking about how good Liverpool is, how good Jurgen Klopp is and all this sort of stuff and we’d all be sat there having something to eat listening to them.”

Despite the best efforts of Henderson and Alexander-Arnold, Bellingham chose to join Real Madrid in the summer of 2023 for a fee worth £88million.

His debut season wasn’t bad either, scoring 23 goals and offering 13 assists to help Real Madrid to LaLiga and Champions League glory.