Re: Gareth Bale
Lol with all the "gentleman's agreements" before with Luka, Berba etc, you'd think no player would be stupid enough to believe Levy. Unless its all bullish... Ahhh
I don't believe them for a second. Even so, there is no way Bale would sign a new contract at the same time as watching Modric fight dearly to leave the club and thinking 'lol, at least he's letting me leave next year!'. You'd have to be the stupidest person in the world to believe that. I don't think the agreement, if one was spoken about, was anything like Levy saying he would sell.
Also stupid though is top clubs using this 'you have to join us now or it's never' line. It gives stupid players the excuse to claim that their current club is denying them ther dream move, despite it being so flipping stupid. Is Bale seriously supposed to believe that Real Madrid, who value him so highly that they will bid 100 million pounds or there abouts, suddenly wouldn't come back next summer? For goodness sake.
There is simply no benefit to us selling Bale this summer. Next summer, maybe. Then his sale can finance the next lot of recruits needed to sustain our improvement at the top of the table. Right now though, we need him and selling him guarantees the entire season will be a waste, despite a nice profit figure. I seriously hope we turn down literally any offer they throw at us. Otherwise it will actually be quite hard to be as motivated to watch us through the season, and that will be incredibly sad. We'd go from being the team potentially able to do something big, to a team accepting their place as second tier.
I think Real are amping up their machine to try and get Bale now, and if they can't, they can get their pathetic big money vanity purchase with Suarez. Would be hilarious if Arsenal miss out on all the big players moving around, and therefore the summer could still be a real good one for Spurs.