Is Jude Bellingham England’s greatest?
Is Jude Bellingham destined to become England's greatest-ever footballer? Robbie Earle, Robbie Mustoe, and Kyle Martino get into a heated debate over Bellingham's ceiling and whether he truly possesses the ultimate hybrid skillset of Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard, and Frank Lampard.
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And when I think about what I love about Scholes, and what I love about Gerrard, and what I love about Lampard, when I, when I go through those players and I Frankenstein them together- it's Jude Bellingham.
It's Jude, absolutely.
Yeah, I'm just not with you totally.
Stein, Genesis, what a downer.
I'm just not, I'm just not with you totally.
A downer.
I'm just not.
Not yet, I'm not.
I've seen too many games where he hasn't performed, where he hasn't been spraying the ball around like a Steven Gerrard could.
Or in games when you expect him to be influential in a, in an attacking role, and you, you don't see him in the game.
He's had a great, he's had a great tournament, right?
So don't I'm, I just I've got to see more consistently, Kyle, in the stuff that we've seen in the last few games, to put him in that category for me.
I mean, Wayne Rooney was a brilliant, brilliant footballer.
And the teams, the England teams around him weren't so good.
And this, this is one of our best teams- Yeah, yeah, I mean- forever you're probably right.
I mean- So I'm still- Jude, Jude, you know, throwing England on his back and getting you guys to a semifinal of this tournament is probably not good enough.
He's scored, he's scored some important goals.
I just- Rob, he can't be.
Help me I'm not, I'm not all in just yet.
I, I'm not all in.
The last, the la- well, the last- But, but, but all the, all the things you want are in place.
He's, he's 23 years of age.
The, the great, greatest- So the, there's more to come these three or four more years, eh?
So I'm not saying he's there.
Yeah.
These three or four more years.
We're saying he has everything to be there.
Greatness, greatness comes from consistency.
Greatness comes from also maturity.
And he, he, he is Well, yeah.
Well, they go together.
And if it happens- Yeah and he's consistently doing what he's done in this tournament- Yeah absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
But I'm- Well, we're saying the same thing not there yet.
But from a different view.
No, we're not.
You're saying he's almost there already.
No, we're not saying he's almost there.
I'm saying he's- We're saying he's, he's- He's got the capabilities of that got the capabilities.
It's like the two Russians and France.
Of course he has.
We're all saying the capabilities.
I'm saying, I'm saying capability to do that.
We're, we're saying- But we're saying I'm not there.
I'm not saying he's the best player now.
I'm saying at 23 years of age, what he's doing at this level of, of football- Yeah, but you're sa- you're saying, you're saying that he's got all the attributes of all these other brilliant players in England.
No, you tell, you tell me what I'm saying, and I'm trying to tell you what you're saying.
No, well, you said about England, all the, all the attributes of all these other players.
There we go.
