{"id":42283,"date":"2024-07-17T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/la-liga-theyll-stop-you-paul-merson-warns-real-madrid-star\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:00:16","slug":"la-liga-theyll-stop-you-paul-merson-warns-real-madrid-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/la-liga-theyll-stop-you-paul-merson-warns-real-madrid-star\/","title":{"rendered":"La Liga: They\u2019ll stop you \u2013 Paul Merson warns Real Madrid star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Arsenal Legend, Paul Merson has warned Real Madrid midfielder, Jude Bellingham that players from opposition teams would stop him from playing next season.<\/p>\n<p>According to Merson, the England international needs to come up with a solution to maintain a top level like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo when the new 2024\/25 season starts.<\/p>\n<p>Bellingham impressed in his first season at Real Madrid after joining the Champions League winners from Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Football\u2019s Greatest YouTube channel alongside presenter Jeff Stelling, Merson said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Bellingham] comes in and hits La Liga by storm, 17 goals in 20 games, bombing into the box.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[They] can\u2019t stop him, unreal. All of a sudden he gets to Christmas and it\u2019s all Bellingham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow they are playing the likes of Cadiz or Real Betis or Athletic Bilbao and in their team talk [they are like], \u2018gotta stop this kid Bellingham\u2019. Not Vinicus Jr or Rodrygo or Modric or Kroos. Now all of a sudden it\u2019s all [about] stopping Bellingham and everybody stopped him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got to come up with solutions. This is why you talk about people like Ronaldo, Messi, Ryan Giggs. It\u2019s going to be hard for him next year, believe me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he performs at the same level next year, I will be like \u2018wow, you\u2019re special\u2019 because he will get stopped from playing and he has to come up with ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>La Liga: They\u2019ll stop you \u2013 Paul Merson warns Real Madrid star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal Legend, Paul Merson has warned Real Madrid midfielder, Jude Bellingham that players from opposition teams would stop him from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6970,15,6912,1468,160],"tags":[588,8,6971,1063,2308,180,2325,1472,201,200,520,2309,725],"class_list":["post-42283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","category-news","category-paul-merson","category-real-madrid","category-sport","tag-you","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-liga","tag-madrid","tag-merson","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-real","tag-sport","tag-star","tag-stop","tag-theyll","tag-warns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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