{"id":623,"date":"2026-05-31T13:33:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=623"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:33:46","slug":"is-jude-bellingham-arrogant-former-team-mate-reacts-to-character-criticism-of-real-madrid-england-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Is Jude Bellingham arrogant? Former team-mate reacts to character criticism of Real Madrid &#038; England superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"A\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Davis, a veteran of 182 appearances for the Blues, witnessed the rapid rise of Bellingham at the club&#8217;s Wast Hills training ground. Even at 16, the future Champions League winner was making senior professionals look ordinary in training sessions, leaving Davis in no doubt about the youngster&#8217;s trajectory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Recalling the atmosphere at the time, Davis admitted: &#8220;Am I surprised he rose so quickly? No, because of some of the things he was doing. You were half desperate to be on his team for five-a-sides! He just needed the physicality, but he was also clever enough not to get himself into some of the physical duels. That\u2019s football intelligence at such a young age.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davis, a veteran of 182 appearances for the Blues, witnessed the rapid rise of Bellingham at the club&#8217;s Wast Hills&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}