Jude Bellingham predicts the young player at Euro 2024 who will be 'even better' than him

Real Madrid and England midfielder Jude Bellingham has singled out a teammate who will be 'better than him' as he continues to shine at Euro 2024.

The 20-year-old midfielder will look back at the 2023/24 campaign as a special one.

In his debut campaign at Real Madrid, he notched 19 goals and six assists for Los Blancos as they lifted both the La Liga and Champions League titles.

He also collected the 2023 Golden Boy Award for Europe's best under-21 player, receiving a record-breaking 485 of a possible 500 points from the jury.

After establishing himself as one of world football's best young players, Bellingham tipped one of his Real Madrid teammates to forge a legacy in the game.

In fact, the former Birmingham City man believes Arda Guler can eclipse his own achievements.

Massimo Franchi, who is the founder of the Golden Boy award, opened up on his conversation with Bellingham at last year's Golden Boy awards ceremony.

Here, he spoke about his younger brother Jude, as well as Turkey's next big star.

"At the time, he told me that his brother Jobe, who plays for Sunderland, could be one of the favourites for the 2024 award," Franchi told German outlet Frankfurter Rundschau.

"He is a great talent, but of course that was just a joke, because Jobe does not yet play for a Premier League club and is therefore excluded from the current rankings according to Golden Boy rules.

"Jude also told me in December last year that Real Madrid have a fantastic young player who is perhaps even a little better than him: Turkey’s Arda Güler, who scored an outstanding goal against Albania.

"According to Bellingham, he would show incredible things in training. Güler is only 19 years old."

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Guler, who recently scored in Turkey's clash against Georgia at Euro 2024, has been praised by many in recent months.

Luka Modric made some telling comments about the teenager, shortly after he arrived at Los Blancos.

"I love him, he's a great kid. He has this eagerness to learn, to get better, to listen. He's a great talent," Modric said in October.

"Unfortunately, he got injured when he came to Madrid, then he recovered and maybe he wanted to force things to come back earlier because he wanted to show his talent to Madrid and got injured again.

"The other day I told him he needs to take things calmly, to go little by little, and that he's young so he has time to show his quality and his talent to Madrid fans.

"I wish him all the best. Hopefully now when he comes back he will start showing his quality but the most important thing about him is he's a great, great kid."