Real Madrid star Dani Carvajal says he and his team-mates were in awe of Jude Bellingham when they saw him in training for the first time.

Bellingham has stunned at Madrid since joining from Borussia Dortmund in a deal worth €105 million (£88m/$110m). The midfielder has scored five times in just four La Liga appearances, amazing fans and team-mates alike.

“We don’t want to deify him too much because the bar is set too high,” Carvajal said on Universo Valdano. “From the first moment when he started training, we looked at each other in pre-season, the veterans… and we said: ‘Phew, he knows what he’s doing!’ You don’t see that he’s very fast, that technically he’s crazy… it’s just that he’s very complete, he’s a finisher, you give him the ball and from the third week he’s understood everyone just by watching. He’s very intelligent.”

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