Jude Bellingham & Arda Güler send online messages to Real Madrid teammate
Two members of the first-team ranks at La Liga giants Real Madrid have this week forwarded public messages of well wishes to teammate David Alaba.
This comes after the Austrian celebrated his latest birthday.
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Defender Alaba is for his part currently in the midst of a fresh spell on the sidelines.
This comes owing to a meniscus injury suffered in his left knee back in April, which has kept the former Bayern Munich man out of action ever since.
On Tuesday, Alaba, in turn, was afforded a rare recent reason to celebrate, upon turning 33 years of age.
And as alluded to above, keen to commemorate the occasion were two of the stopper's youngest teammates.
Midfielder Jude Bellingham first took to Instagram to write:
'Happy birthday big bro! Legend'
And as much was soon followed by a further IG post on the part of Arda Güler, who also unveiled a photo of he and Alaba, tagging his teammate alongside a series of birthday emojis:
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