'I think...' Man City and West Ham figure makes prediction about former Birmingham City star

Former Birmingham City midfielder Jude Bellingham is being tipped to win the top scorer award at EURO 2024.

Bellingham has become a global superstar since leaving St Andrew’s for Borussia Dortmund for a reported £25m in 2020. He is closing in on his first league title with Real Madrid 13-points above Girona with five games remaining.

The 20-year-old has a Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich and England teammate Harry Kane to look forward to this evening. Bellingham and Kane are rivals this week and one former Premier League boss believes that the Stourbridge-born star will pip him to an individual award this summer.

Stuart Pearce played for Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United and West Ham, and later became the manager of Manchester City and Great Britain. The 62-year-old thinks that he will eclipse the goal scoring efforts of Kane this summer and score the most goals in the tournament.

“I think the Golden Boot winner at Euro 2024 will be Jude Bellingham,” said Pearce to OLBG.

“I think he's playing a more advanced role for both club and country at the moment and I think Jude will be the Golden Boot winner. If England are going to be successful, he's going to have to be scoring.”

The Three Lions are in a group with Serbia, Denmark and Slovenia. They face Serbia at the Vetlins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen on June 16, then Denmark four days later at Frankfurt's Deutsche Bank Park before rounding their group campaign off against Slovenia at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne on June 25.