It would be quite sexy to smash our wage structure for an unfit player who doesn’t really like playing football any more!
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Bale. Could we? Would we? Should we?
- Thread starter Mulletperm
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That would still be £300k per week....perhaps we pay them a £5m loan fee, they pay £400k p/w to him and we pay £200k to him so that he's in-line with Kane.
On that basis, I think its worth doing. Given we lack a second creator in addition to GLC, then having another game-changer who can create/score a goal out of nothing or beat their man is much needed....and for the sort of terms above, I think its worth a punt with limited downside. Levy would also like ti from a marketing perspective too - we won't be bringing in anywhere close to as big a name as Bale this summer
Ideally, I'd like it to be Bale + a new CF, with Moura or Lamela leaving, but Bale on his own is far from a disaster
But if we could get him back close to his ability before, it could be the difference between top 4 and not
Rorschach
Mel Hopkins
'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'
....as someone once babbled.
AjaxDeSuperYids
Drama queen
I think his 600k a week is euros, so in pounds we’d pay 272k a week.
Not saying I don’t want him, just preparing myself for the worst as usual!
IF we sign him it would be a massive lift the club, biggest signing since Klinsmann for me and he’s got to be closer to his peak than Davids was who was the last ‘superstar’ we signed?
We have options in his position to manage his integration and game time, if it’s a loan the financial risk would be limited to c15m in a years wages. Arguably we spunked 2 thirds of that on Ndombele’s wages, not withstanding whatever his value has dropped to if we sold him.
I’d like to think for one season at least Kane wouldn’t have an issue with not being on parity with a 4 x CL winner if it improves the team and the chances if winning something. Then any decisions on whether to sign him permanently, on what wages and Kane’s parity would be a lot easier after seeing what relative impact the signing has made.
The conditions really are the only way we can take a reasonable risk, for a player of this status who actually has a link to the club and fans. If it was - fee and a three year contract on 300k+ per week it would be a different situation entirely. On a tiny note he might be a good guide for Sessegnon’s career trajectory too.
AjaxDeSuperYids
Drama queen
Noob
awesome dawson
Chris Armstrong
Never go back, is a sound philosophy in life.
Baleforce
Terry Naylor
he hasn't missed a game through injury for nearly a year
a spur from swansea
Naybet
Hopefully he was all over him like a rash last week in the Wales training camp in Finland and Cardiff.....and Brooks too!!
Finney Is Back
Paul Stewart
The realistic ending
Finney Is Back
Paul Stewart
Why can Bale not be paid more than Kane?
a spur from swansea
Naybet
Well he didn't win anything when he was here as a reminder plus he's playing in a brand new stadium and training base,so it could be a new start of sorts!!
Baleforce
Terry Naylor
he absolutely should be
You need some discipline in a salary structure otherwise our wage bill will spiral out of control. Say we pay Bale £250k or £300k...guess what happens next summer? Offers for Kane from Man U or others are rumoured and Levy gets a call from Kane's agent - suddenly his wage goes to £300k (or we have to sell). Someone who has historically been at half Kane's level will then want £150k rather than £100k....
Thee more I think about us signign Bale though, the more I think we should do it. There has to be a decent chance Kane will leave soon unless we can demonstrate ambition and likely challenges for trophies...Bale will help keep Kane IMO
FatBloke
Terry Fenwick
Beat me to it!
Although I'd have had the hoist mechanism failing a few metres up, tilting and dropping Bale to the ground, where he falls awkwardly and ruptures his cruciate.
Or maybe something involving lasagne.
#sexy
Finney Is Back
Paul Stewart
Why will it scale out of control? Why would Kane’s agent call because we’re paying a world class superstar more than his client? Did Benzema’s agent do the same when Madrid signed Bale?
Whether or not we sign Bale and do or don’t pay him huge money makes no difference to what Man Utd or whoever would pay Harry Kane.
In our next contract negotiation with Kane (which would probably be next summer) we will have to pay him more anyway, probably the sort of amount we’d have to pay Bale if Madrid we’re paying half his salary. That is a given whether or not we sign Bale.
I happen to think that Kane won’t sign a new deal at Spurs anyway, he would be mad to given the fact that he is now at his peak and risks a career winning little to nothing. Us signing a genuine superstar like Bale would actually probably sway that the other way IMO and might convince Harry that we actually do mean business and really want to push to win things.
monkeybarry
Nayim
Go back when you need a short term ego boost, fudging good time and to remind the opposition what you can