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JUDE Bellingham is going places – and so is his best mate.The England star, 19, has signed for Real Madrid in a stunning £115million deal.
Meet Jude Bellingham’s best mate Toby BishhayCredit: Instagram/@tobybishay
High-flier Bishay runs his own concierge service
Bellingham has taken advantage of Bishay’s concierge service, including private carsCredit: Instagram/@tb.concierge
He has agreed a six-year-deal that will net him a staggering £17million-per-year after being chased by Europe’s biggest clubs.
It’s a salary that will allow him to live a life of luxury – if he wasn’t already doing that with pal, Toby Bishay.
Bishay runs his own concierge service suitably called TBConcierge.
And he makes sure the England footballer is getting the A-list service a world class player should be receiving.
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With links to contacts who offer high-end luxuries, Bishay can give his clients a lifestyle to envy.
The Birmingham-based Aston Villa fan opened his service in 2022.
He debuted it with a social media post, showing Jude taking advantage of a stretch limousine.
A quick glance at his Instagram, which has 16,000 followers, shows just some of the amazing experiences TBConcierge provide.
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If you need to get anywhere in a hurry, and you’re an international jet-setter, Bishay can ensure you fly privately.
Want a five-star hotel, with a Michelin star restaurant booking to boot? That’s not a bother.
Entry to the world’s superclubs, with a private table, waitress service and more can also be ordered.
And this all expands to glam locations like Marbella, Ibiza, Mykonos, and Dubai too.
Private villas can also be organised, with many boasting swimming pools.
Private jets can be chartered through TBConcierge
Luxury villas like this can be rented through Bishay’s company TBConcierge
Client list
Bellingham isn’t the only footballer who has taken advantage of Bishay’s services.
Trent Alexander-Arnold enjoyed his partnership with Parasol Assistance limos, and was seen stretched out in one of their cars.
He wrote on Insta alongside a photo of the Liverpool ace: “It was a great pleasure to have @trentarnold66 on board with us we sincerely hope that you enjoy the service that we provided.”
Young footballers Louie Barry, Jude’s brother Jobe Bellingham and Man City youngster Morgan Rogers have also given their testimonials on Instagram.
Trent Alexander-Arnold enjoyed TBConcierge’s offeringsCredit: Instagram/@tb.concierge
Jobe Bellingham has also taken advantage of TBConcierge’s luxuries
Friends like these
Bishay is still expanding his business and building up his list of potential clients.
Last season, he was in and amongst Borussia Dortmund’s stars as his mate went on to star for the German giants.
He was spotted on the Signal Iduna Park pitch with Bellingham back in May.
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The pair are often seen at Birmingham’s exclusive Bank Restaurant and Bar too.
With friends like Bellingham, it’s no wonder Bishay is doing so well for himself now.
Bishay joined Bellingham on the pitch at DortmundCredit: Instagram/@tobybishay
With friends like Jude Bellingham, Bishay’s business is set to take offCredit: Instagram/@tobybishay More

TODAY, footballers are major celebrities.They are invited to A-list parties, they mingle with the jet-set and make fortunes to rival those of pop stars, actors and models.
Actress Julia Roberts is wanted by both sides of the Manchester football divideCredit: Alamy
Pep Guardiola admitted in the past Pretty Woman star Roberts was one of his idolsCredit: Alamy

But, they are only human.
These stars of the beautiful game have their own celebrity crushes.
From Pep Guardiola to Cristiano Ronaldo and Jack Grealish, here’s footballers’ celebrity crushes.
Pep Guardiola/Julia Roberts
The Man City boss has three idols in life, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and the Pretty Woman actress.
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And Guardiola was devastated when he found she was sloping off with the enemy seven years ago – by heading for fierce rivals Manchester United. 
He said: “I am a failure in the Champions League. If I win the Champions League three times in a row I will be a failure.
“I have three idols in my life. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Julia Roberts.  
“Julia Roberts years ago came to Manchester – not in the 90s when Sir Alex (Ferguson) was winning titles and titles and titles.
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“She came in the period where we were better than United, in these four or five years, right?
“And she went to visit Man United. She didn’t come to see us. That’s why even if I win the Champions League it will not compare for the fact that Julia Roberts came to Manchester and didn’t come to see us.
“Even if I win the Champions League it will not compare to this disappointment I had.”
But, Pep, who is happily married to Cristina Serra, has been reprieved after she congratulated him and his team for their Champions League success.
She tweeted: “Congratulations @pepteam for leading your team to be UCL champions.  #pep #soccermom.”
Cristiano Ronaldo/Kendall Jenner
The Portuguese legend is, of course, happily settled with stunning beauty Georgina Rodriguez.
But there was a time when he was free and single and happily flirting with Kendall Jenner on Instagram.
He liked one of her sexy photos, and reportedly invited her to a Real Madrid game.
She was said to be flattered by his interest in her, but that’s as far it went.
Supermodel Kendall Jenner was said to be flattered by interest in her from Cristiano RonaldoCredit: The Mega Agency
Cristiano Ronaldo liked a sexy pic of Kendall on InstagramCredit: Getty
Jack Grealish/Rihanna
When the Man City ace was playing for Aston Villa, he was quizzed by YouTube channel Stadium Astro about which celebrity he would most like to meet.
“Rihanna,” Grealish replied without hesitation. “Because she’s pretty.”
The England midfielder also confessed to liking her music as well.
Grealish has since settled down with childood sweetheart Sasha Attwood, who seems the sole object of his desires now.
Pop star Rihanna always has plenty of admirersCredit: Getty
Man City ace Jack Grealish revealed he would love to meet Rihanna because she’s prettyCredit: Getty
Ruben Loftus-Cheek/Laura Woods
Presenter Laura Woods has a few sporting suitors.
The first to admit a crush on the talkSPORT host was Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who appeared on her show.
Woods asked him which famous person he has the hots for.
And to her shock and excitement, Loftus-Cheek joked: “Laura Woods!”.
Woods quipped back: “An exceptional answer!” before cheekily responding they would swap numbers after the call.
Later, Anthony Joshua would confess his love for Woods too, insisting that Loftus-Cheek beat him to it.
Presenter Laura Woods got a cheeky response from a footballer during an interview about his celeb crushCredit: Instagram @laurawoodsy
Ruben Loftus-Cheek joked Woods was his celebrity crushCredit: Getty
David and Victoria Beckham
David got down on one knee to propose to Victoria back in 1998.
However, before he met her he admitted that he had crushed on the Spice Girl hard.
According to reports, Becks would watch her in the video for Say You’ll Be There on a loop – declaring he would one day date the pretty brunette in the leather catsuit.
They finally met at a Man Utd game, and the rest is now history.
Victoria Beckham was the object of David Beckham’s desires when he first saw her in a Spice Girls videoCredit: Getty
Man Utd legend David Beckham invited Victoria to Old Trafford and the rest was historyCredit: AFP
Beth Mead/Cheryl Tweedy
England Lioness hero Beth Mead spoke openly about first crush on Cheryl Tweedy.
Writing in her brilliant book Lioness: My Journey To Glory, the Arsenal forward wrote: “I probably should have realised that I was gay a little bit sooner than I did. I was a big Girls Aloud fan, but Cheryl was special to me.
“Back then, I thought she was just someone I looked up to, someone to be interested in outside of football. I liked her music, her clothes, her whole vibe.
“Was it a crush? Was it my sexual awakening? Was it just a phase? It’s hard to know.”
Cheryl Tweedy was Beth Mead’s celebrity crushCredit: Getty
Beth Mead was open about her sexuality in her bookCredit: Getty
Callum Wilson/Myleene Klass
The Newcastle forward looks back at his first celebrity crush with a bit of embarrassment.
Especially since it involved queuing up to get an autograph of the singer from a beloved pop band.
“My first crush was Myleene Klass. I’m not sure why,” he revealed on The Footballer’s Football Podcast alongside West Ham’s Michail Antonio.
“It might have been something to do with Hear’Say, was she in Hear’Say? That’s probably why.
“I was listening, seeing that band around at the time.
“I actually queued up to see Hear’Say in Coventry city centre with a flag for four or five hours to see this band.
Myleene Klass had a superfan in the shape of a Premier League footballerCredit: Instagram
Callum Wilson admitted queuing up to get her autograph when she was in pop band Hear’SayCredit: Getty
“It was a book signing event when you get to meet them at the end.
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“I got this flag signed and took it home buzzing because they’d signed it.
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BLESSED with an incredible talent at just 13, the burden of expectation on the shoulders of Xavi Simons was huge.He was the great hope at Barcelona, where he honed his skills at La Masia.
Xavi Simons has starred for PSV this campaign with 22 goals in all competitionsCredit: Getty
Simons was hailed as a wonderkid at Barcelona aged just eightCredit: Getty Images – Getty
However, the lure of PSG and opportunity for first team football was too much to refuse – and the midfield playmaker tried his hand in France.
After one season in Ligue 1, Simons moved again – this time back to his homeland with PSV.
Under the tutelage of ex-manager Ruud van Nistelrooy, the wonderkid, 20, has flourished and is living up to the hype that originally surrounded him.
In the campaign just gone, he scored 22 goals in all competitions.
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Now, he could be set for another big-money move – with Premier League clubs circling.
‘Golden Curls’
Simons began his football education at Barcelona, when he was just seven.
The Catalans saw him as their greatest prospect since Lionel Messi, and fought off teams including Chelsea who tried to poach the superstar-in-waiting.
One year, at U14 level, he captained a youth side that won all 25 games – scoring 164 times and conceding just 14.
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Golden Curls, as he was affectionally nicknamed, even got to meet his idol and namesake, Xavi Hernandez.
He said: “I was with the physio when Xavi came over.
“When I told him that my name was also Xavi, he laughed. It was funny. He’s my idol.
“I know it’s difficult but I will do everything to make it.”
But it wasn’t to be at Barcelona.
At eight-years-old, Simons was the star of the Catalans’ youth teamCredit: Getty Images – Getty
The midfielder idolised his namesake XaviCredit: Getty Images – Getty
PSG came calling
The LaLiga giants tried desperately to convince Simons his exciting future belonged at the Camp Nou.
However, with his path to the first team blocked, he snubbed a new contract at 16, on the advice of his former agent Mino Raiola.
Instead, an inviting offer from PSG – reportedly worth £1million-per-year – was enough to take him to the Parc des Princes.
As the man himself explained: “Everyone dreams of playing with Messi, but sometimes there is another way.
“I decided to try another adventure – and I think that this is good for my development.”
Little known at the time, Lionel Messi would end up following Simons to Paris two years later.
But his popularity off the pitch for a boy so young was astonishing – as the hype surrounding the Amsterdam-born youngster grew.
By the time he was 16, and this is before he’d even made his professional debut, Simons boasted a remarkable two million followers on Instagram.
While Nike also offered him a bumper sponsorship deal. The world was his oyster.
In 2019, Simons took his talents to PSGCredit: Refer to Caption
Neymar became one of his team-mates, but Simons struggled to get a look-inCredit: Refer to Caption
Again, he would cut a frustrated figure – with reports that he wasn’t progressing as swiftly as was hoped and chances limited.
Talk of a return to Spain was quashed – with the media in Barcelona insisting his former club were not interested in taking up the option of resigning him with their buy-back clause based on his lack of development.
Truth was he barely got a game. In his three years, he appeared just 11 times.
And when he did, luck would have it that he would become the fall guy in defeat – most notably missing a penalty in a shootout defeat to Nice in the last 16 of the Coupe de France.
Simons took the opportunity to rebuild his career closer to home.
Return to Holland
Last year, PSV brought Simons back home.
Initial reports suggested the French giants weren’t willing to let him go, beyond a loan deal.
When a buy-back clause was inserted, that sweetened the transfer and made the move a permanent one.
PSV’s new boss Ruud Van Nistelrooy was desperate to work with the boy wonder, seeing more of a forward in him than a midfielder. And he was right.
In his first four games in the Eredivisie playing in a more advanced position, he netted six times – prompting a compliment from his manager.
“I’m not even surprised. Before we put him on, I had already seen a lot of him,” Van Nistelrooy told ESPN.
“I saw that his potential is great and fantastic. I also knew that his character is well constructed. And if you train well and do your job well, you can take big steps. He does that.”
Xavi Simons has been capped at youth levelCredit: Getty – Contributor
This season, Simons has had a hand in more goals than other player under 21 in Europe’s top six leaguesCredit: Getty
Many have tipped Simons to be Holland’s next huge starCredit: Getty
It’s been rumoured that PSG want to exercise their buy-back clause, although Simons isn’t entertaining that thought.
“There’s a clause in my contract: if I want to go to PSG at the end of the season, I can do that for a certain amount,” he admitted.
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“To be honest, it’s not in my head to leave PSV. I feel good here and I’ve just settled in. I think you can see that on the field.”
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TOTTENHAM’s search for a new manager is about to end.Spurs are set to announce Celtic’s Ange Postecoglou as their new boss as early as next week.
Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou is set to be confirmed as Tottenham bossCredit: Getty
When he was five, Postecoglou emigrated to Australia
The Greek-born, Aussie-raised coach, 57, grew up in Melbourne, where he developed a love of the beautiful game.
It was at South Melbourne Hellas, a club set up for Greek immigrants in the 1950s, where he would meet legend Ferenc Puskas, who managed the side from 1989-1992.
They would form a close bond, where Ange would act as interpreter for the Hungarian in return for his fountain of football knowledge.
Postecoglou would become a boss in his own right and eventually coach the Australian national team.
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Last year, behind-the-scenes footage emerged of the ex-Socceroos coach losing his temper with his players, which should act as a warning to Harry Kane and Co.
Number 24
Raised in the Athens suburbs, Ange’s dad Dimitris lost his business following the 1967 Greek military coup, so the family emigrated to Australia in 1970 by boat.
“I just can’t believe what my parents went through,” he said.
“What they would have gone through to take a young family halfway round the world, on a ship that takes us 30 days, to a country where they don’t speak the language, they don’t know a soul, they don’t have a house, they don’t have jobs.
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“People say they go to another country for a better life. My parents did not have a better life, they went to Australia to provide opportunities for me to have a better life.”
The future football manager was just five when he posed for a photo holding up immigration number 24, giving off a steely stare that would later be used in full force to get the best out of team-mates and teams.
It was his dad who would give Ange his first taste of football, which was something of a release for the old man who was out early and home late because of work commitments.
Sundays were dedicated to church in the mornings, followed by a South Melbourne Hellas match in the afternoon.
Football legend Ferenc Puskas became Postecoglou’s mentor at South Melbourne Hellas
A fine tutor
Ange joined semi-pro Hellas, who are now known as South Melbourne FC, when he was nine.
“As a kid, I just wanted to fit in, I didn’t necessarily like the fact I came from another country and had a really long surname that nobody could get their mouth around. For a young boy the best way to fit in was sport,” Postecoglou said.
He rose through the youth ranks to play in the 1984 side that won the National Soccer League. Something he would achieve again in 1991, but under a more inspiring and pioneering manager.
Between 1989-1992, Ange was coached by football’s first international superstar, Ferenc Puskas. He was skipper and left-back, Puskas his mentor.
Puskas was a pioneer in Australia and showed them how to play football
Puskas would lead South Melbourne Hellas to National Soccer League success
The Galloping Major played an attacking 4-3-3 formation – with the full-backs supporting the wingers. Never before seen in Australia.
Puskas couldn’t speak English, but was fluent in Greek following spells at Panathinaikos and AEK Athens.
That allowed Greek-speaking Ange to be the chief communicator on and off the pitch.
They soon became firm friends, as Ange would chauffeur Puskas around town and the two would discuss football for hours.
Ange said of Puskas: “He was just a gentleman. From the moment he wandered through, he was just humble.
“We were constantly pestering him to tell us stories about Real Madrid, what he did at Hampden, what he did at Wembley.
“He was forever downplaying everything and it just showed you the greatness of the man was his humility in dealing with people.
“I was lucky because when he came to Australia his English wasn’t great, but he had coached Panathinaikos to a European Cup final, so his Greek was decent and I acted almost as an interpreter.
“I used to pick him up from his house and drive him to training in my crappy old car, which I was embarrassed about.”
Destined for management
Ange was just 27 when he had to retire with a knee injury.
Postecoglou would return to South Melbourne as coach and win two national championshipsCredit: Getty Images – Getty
When Postecoglou was left unemployed he leaned on his wife Georgia for help and moved in with his mother-in-lawCredit: Getty
Three years later, he would return to South Melbourne as a coach and win two national championships from 1996-2000
But a more senior role with Australia’s youth sides would nearly put a nail in the coffin of his career.
An on-air bust-up with football pundit Craig Foster during an interview on Aussie TV left a sour taste in the mouth.
He was sacked from coaching Australia’s U20s in 2007, and forced to take on a role at third division Greek club Panachaiki to continue his management journey, only to return to Australia in 2008.
He had nothing, and had to move in with wife Georgia and his mother-in-law for eight months to get by.
His next job at Brisbane Roar would define him.
Going on to success
Many believe that the brand of football Brisbane played during Ange’s tenure between 2009-2012 was the best ever seen by an Australian club side.
Fast, ferocious, possession-based, he was inspired to use the same 4-3-3 formation Puskas had taught him.
After winning back-to-back league titles in 2011 and 2012, he moved to Melbourne Victory and after a year was appointed as Socceroos boss.
Postecoglou coached the Socceroos at the 2014 World Cup
Back-to-back league titles in Scotland have cemented Postecoglou’s reputationCredit: Getty
They competed in the 2014 World Cup, won the 2015 Asian Cup, and qualified for another World Cup in 2018.
A month after securing qualification, Ange resigned and accepted a job in Japan with Yokohama Marinos.
He would lead the club to their first J-League title in 15 years in 2019, before Celtic brought him to Scotland in 2021.
Postecoglou would wrestle the Scottish Premiership back from fierce rivals Rangers in his first season, before winning it again this year – adding two League Cups to the Hoops’ trophy room in his two years in Glasgow.
However, a fiery temper that could install fear into his players to perform better was uncovered last year.
Filled with rage
In a clip from a Paramount Australia documentary about Postecoglou’s time in charge of the Socceroos, a more prickly side became evident.
He was filmed showing his players a soft goal they conceded from a set-piece on a screen during a team meeting.
He begins: “We’ve got to be better than this, we must be better, that’s just careless.
“And not only that, there’s one, two, three… we cannot f***ing concede there.
“There’s f***ing got to be a reaction there.”
As he vented his fury, he punched the screen with his hand.
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Tottenham’s stars should know that Postecoglou doesn’t suffer fools gladlyCredit: Getty
“Someone!” he continued, “f***’s sake!”
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