Meet Jude Bellingham at his New Home in Dortmund

You get those days, when you're on your game, but still end up losing. Fate simply isn't on your side. That brief hope, in vain, and come to finish, frustration in Freiburg. But with an 18-year-old's forward-looking resilience. Played some good stuff at times, given the grand scheme of things it doesn't mean. We are so disappointed and we'll have to bounce back next week. Jude Bellingham, with the right words in defeat, the right gestures when it matters. Already possessing a level of maturity some never achieve in a lifetime. No ordinary teenager, much to the satisfaction of his coach, Marco Rose. He's a great boy, eager to learn, incredibly ambitious, sometimes verging on quick-tempered. But that's also an important quality to succeed in football at this level. This is all I eat, isn't it? Pasta. Sometimes pasta with chicken, sausage, peppers. Life with mum continued, except for more than a year now it's been in Dortmund. Denise Bellingham keeps a protective eye on her son. A budding on-field leader, but still so young and far away from home and family. We always kind of talk about things. That first goodbye when we were all here and dad and Jo were going back home, that was the hardest. I miss my dad and my little brother so, so much. The next difficult step in a career whose foundations were laid at Birmingham City. Where Mike Dodds was a keen long-time mentor to the young Jude. He was an adolescent boy at times and you have to set strong boundaries. The pre-season that he went in with the first team, he came down to the offices looking for me and I thought he was going to beat me up. Because he was unhappy with one or two things, but that's the relationship we had. We actually disagreed on a lot of things, we fell out, but I think we never really held on to it. My godfather in terms of football. Flipping heck, can I get that in writing? In and around Birmingham, he's a local hero already. One whose friends can confirm he's not the type of person to let fame and glory go to his head. His ego could be out, off the scale, but he never says, I've done this, I've done that. He's speaking about something completely normal, like an hour before he's playing in a Champions League quarter-final. A wonderful human being. Dortmund have quite the all-rounder, and not just in football terms. Though that's where his reputation is only set to keep growing. Jude Bellingham, keep your eye on him, because that young man is going places.