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Real Madrid captain Carvajal: Let's not deify Bellingham

Real Madrid captain Dani Carvajal says they mustn't overhype Jude Bellingham.

The summer arrival from Borussia Dortmund has scored five goals in his first four games for the club.

Carvajal told Universo Valdano: "We don't want to deify him too much because the bar is very high. From the first moment when he started training, we veterans looked at each other in the preseason... and said 'ugh, this guy knows what he's doing!'

"You don't see that he is very fast, that technically he is crazy... it's just that he is very complete, he has arrival, you give him the ball and it is already understood from the third week with everyone just watching. He is very intelligent."

Carvajal was also asked about a coaching future and added: "I'm not ruling it out, far from it, but the first thing I want to do when I retire I would like to start with children. At the moment I'm there with my son (laughs). It's nice because many see you as a reference, they take everything you tell them ...".

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