Re: Gareth Bale
Tottenham ready to sell Gareth Bale for €100m plus Alvaro Morata
• Tottenham want 'Spain's future No9' as makeweight
• Morata would make deal worth more than £100m
Gareth Bale will be allowed to leave Tottenham if they can secure Alvaro Morata, above, in exchange. Photograph: Gregorio Lopez/Cordon Press/Corbis
Tottenham Hotspur are prepared to sell Gareth Bale to Real Madrid and they will tell the Spanish club that the prospect of a deal would increase if the striker Alvaro Morata were included as a makeweight.
Real have so far bid a world record €100m (£86m) in straight cash for Bale, which has not been enough to sway the Tottenham chairman, Daniel Levy, and they have indicated a readiness to offer players as further sweeteners.
They have put forward the left-back Fábio Coentrão and the winger Angel di María, whose values they have variously factored into the potential package, but Tottenham maintain that the deal will be on their terms, meaning that they choose any makeweights and the one that they want is Morata.
Given the 20-year-old is the most highly rated young player at the Bernabéu, particularly after he secured the Golden Boot as Spain won the European Under-21 Championship this summer, it effectively means that the package Tottenham are seeking is worth more than £100m.....
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This is an incredible deal, for me. I haven't seen much of Morata, but he is outrageously highly rated and gives us the perfect young striker to pair with Soldado and Defoe. Also, for 86 million pounds, you feel like AVB could get one or two more in, while allowing us to pocket a massive amount of cash.
Also, it's from the Guardian, which is a better source than most other papers.