When could that happen? Bellingham will celebrate his 23rd birthday in June and Knight believes the Stourbridge native could return to familiar surroundings before turning 30. He said: \u201cTwenty-eight. I\u2019m saying maybe 28 come back then. Why not? I don\u2019t know. I mean, who knows? Who knows what he\u2019s going to do, but if we became good, I think he would come back.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything depends on what happens on the pitch. If we become, you know, even mid-table Premier League and if we achieve some of the things that our owners want to do in terms of the match-day experience. If they can amplify that and we\u2019re winning, then, on a good day, I think we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bellingham has become a global superstar since leaving Birmingham, with a talismanic role being taken on with England<\/a> as they ready themselves for another shot at World Cup glory<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n Knight admits that it took him longer than most to spot that Bellingham was special. He said: \u201cI obviously don\u2019t know much about football because I never noticed how great he was to begin with. Other people quite early on were saying that kid\u2019s really got something special. And then bit by bit it became obvious that he was different. He was so good. And the way he left was so good because he made sure that Blues benefited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When could that happen? Bellingham will celebrate his 23rd birthday in June and Knight believes the Stourbridge native…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,9030,393,4884,155719,7325,101,544,2357,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-831624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-championship","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-j-bellingham","14":"tag-laliga","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-real-madrid","17":"tag-transfers","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116244201415609876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}