Liverpool chiefs are confident they will sign Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jude Bellingham in 2023.

The Mirror says Liverpool are growing increasingly confident that they will win the £100million battle for Bellingham.

For the past year Anfield boss Jurgen Klopp has told the club owners that the Borussia Dortmund was his main target and wanted their financial backing. Putting feelers out over the possible sale of Liverpool by the Fenway Sports Group has not altered their promise to support Klopp in his quest to bring youth and energy in the shape of 19-year-old Bellingham to Merseyside.

And it's believed that Liverpool are ahead of Manchester City, Manchester United and Real Madrid in the pursuit of the midfielder due to an unlikely bromance with Three Lions team-mate Jordan Henderson.

Henderson and Bellingham have hit it off despite there being a 13 -year difference between them. It's no secret that the Liverpool captain would have, in their spare time in Qatar, been extolling the virtues of a move to Anfield.

And it appears Bellingham's father Mark - who played a big part in his son choosing to leave Birmingham for Dortmund, despite being handed the red carpet treatment by Manchester United - favours the next move being to the red part of Merseyside.