Euro 2024: Bellingham will ‘always respect’ Southgate as England future questioned

England prima Jude Bellingham says he will “always respect” caput coach Gareth Southgate aft being questioned astir his future.

The Three Lions mislaid 2-1 to Spain successful nan Euro 2024 last connected Sunday, marking different last conclusion nether nan erstwhile Middlesbrough manager.

Nico Williams opened nan scoring, earlier substitute Cole Palmer levelled things successful nan 2nd half.

But Mikel Oyarzabal netted nan victor a fewer minutes from time, to manus Spain their 4th European trophy.

Bellingham played nan full lucifer for England but could not person nan desired effect connected nan pitch.

He group up Palmer’s extremity and missed different large chance, which proved costly successful Berlin.

Southgate has put his religion successful nan 21-year-old pursuing his fantabulous run for Real Madrid and Bellingham says he will beryllium happy if he does enactment connected until nan 2026 World Cup.

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He said: “He is personification who, I think, successful nan past twelvemonth aliases 2 arsenic well, our relationship’s benignant of gone a small spot past football, wherever I consciousness for illustration I tin unfastened up to him a batch and I deliberation that speaks volumes of nan benignant of man he is arsenic well.

“Whatever happens pinch Gareth, I’ll ever respect him. If he stays, past I’ll beryllium moreover much wished to triumph thing for him because he deserves it.

“Sometimes nan numbers and nan benignant of statistics, nan records don’t lie, he’s been our astir successful head since 1966.

“So immoderate he decides, he will ever person my respect and my love.”

The state was near devastated aft Spain’s precocious extremity and nan temper was reflected successful nan players’ faces arsenic they collected their runners-up medals.

Bellingham showed erstwhile again he is much mature than his property successful his post-match question and reply and summed up nan temper of nan federation beautiful accurately.

We fell short of what we wanted to execute this summer, but this group gave everything and person done america proud.

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He added: “We each wanted thing much than to make history and to make nan group of England proud and we haven’t managed to do it, we didn’t rather deliver.

“There’s reasons for that and I’m judge arsenic a squad and going forward, we’ll analyse it but I deliberation it’s a young group still.

“It’s really disappointing because astatine immoderate constituent we do person to deliver, but location are experiences and location are things we tin return from this tourney going forward.

“I suppose if you look astatine everything negatively, thing will ever change.

“So it’s important we prime nan positives and nan negatives together and find a measurement to 1 time get England complete nan line.

“I came present to win. We came present to win. Like I said, there’s experiences that we tin return going into nan adjacent one. So I suppose you could opportunity that’s benignant of immoderate solace.

“It’s 1 of those wherever you astir apt request a spot much clip to digest it and analyse it, and we’ll do that arsenic a team, individually, look complete really it went and bounce back.

“It’s a young squad pinch a batch of imaginable and I cognize group beryllium disappointment that we haven’t delivered yet, but I decidedly consciousness that it is coming.”