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Gareth Bale
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BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Re: Gareth Bale
I agree with this. People seem to still think we are the club that only signs players under 26 for money, or older players for free, and strictly for no more than £80,000 a week.
Things have changed. We are players now. I fully believe if Bale was open to it we would be paying £150,000 a week for this season.
I agree with this. People seem to still think we are the club that only signs players under 26 for money, or older players for free, and strictly for no more than £80,000 a week.
Things have changed. We are players now. I fully believe if Bale was open to it we would be paying £150,000 a week for this season.
NaijaSpurs
Les Ferdinand
Re: Gareth Bale
If I were Bale I would just seem my contract out and go on a free. He would be 26 at the end of his third season, I am sure Madrid could offer a sign on fee to make it worth his while
If I were Bale I would just seem my contract out and go on a free. He would be 26 at the end of his third season, I am sure Madrid could offer a sign on fee to make it worth his while
Re: Gareth Bale
three seasons is a long time to wait if you want a move and the chances of Real waiting 3 seasons for a player are virtually nil, imv
three seasons is a long time to wait if you want a move and the chances of Real waiting 3 seasons for a player are virtually nil, imv
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
Re: Gareth Bale
I bet this is how Joe Lewis and Levy are looking at this:
Lewis's whole background is currency trading I'm sure he sees that Euro and the Pound are not worth what they were.
He looks at Ronaldo's world record transfer 80m euros in june 2009 and looks to see what that money is actually worth now.
He probably looks at what is worth in a stable currency like Swiss Francs that day (143.26m chf) then he looks at what 143.26m chf is worth today (100.835m Euro or £116m).
So he sees Real Madrid paying whats now worth 100m euros 4 years ago and he wants more, much more.
I bet this is how Joe Lewis and Levy are looking at this:
Lewis's whole background is currency trading I'm sure he sees that Euro and the Pound are not worth what they were.
He looks at Ronaldo's world record transfer 80m euros in june 2009 and looks to see what that money is actually worth now.
He probably looks at what is worth in a stable currency like Swiss Francs that day (143.26m chf) then he looks at what 143.26m chf is worth today (100.835m Euro or £116m).
So he sees Real Madrid paying whats now worth 100m euros 4 years ago and he wants more, much more.
vkn17
Peter Taylor
Re: Gareth Bale
Sky Sports understands again....
http://www1.skysports.com/football/...s-villas-boas-comments-disappoint-gareth-bale
Sky Sports understands again....
http://www1.skysports.com/football/...s-villas-boas-comments-disappoint-gareth-bale
superspurs
Justin Edinburgh
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Re: Gareth Bale
LOL, that Sky story is like the 'Wayne Rooney is angry and confused' story. Agents trying everything they can to make it as difficult for the contracted club.
The thing is, if anything was imminent, Madrid and Barnett wouldn't see the need to do what they are doing with the media. Negotiations would be coming along, and the sheer ferociousness of the media coming against us wouldn't be needed. The fact that they are doing all this shows the club are as strong as ever.
Still stunned that Bale has had his head turned though. The move must have been on the cards for next summer. I really can't believe he thinks that if he keeps up his performances, becomes a massive global brand and earns rave reviews again that Madrid would just say 'well we said now or never last summer, so we aren't coming back'. Of course they bloody would.
I'm with Steff on this whole saga. Something ugly has happened and continues to go down.
LOL, that Sky story is like the 'Wayne Rooney is angry and confused' story. Agents trying everything they can to make it as difficult for the contracted club.
The thing is, if anything was imminent, Madrid and Barnett wouldn't see the need to do what they are doing with the media. Negotiations would be coming along, and the sheer ferociousness of the media coming against us wouldn't be needed. The fact that they are doing all this shows the club are as strong as ever.
Still stunned that Bale has had his head turned though. The move must have been on the cards for next summer. I really can't believe he thinks that if he keeps up his performances, becomes a massive global brand and earns rave reviews again that Madrid would just say 'well we said now or never last summer, so we aren't coming back'. Of course they bloody would.
I'm with Steff on this whole saga. Something ugly has happened and continues to go down.
DHSF
Les Ferdinand
Re: Gareth Bale
I genuinely think he is erring on the side of caution. Does he suspect he will have as good a season as the last? It would be extremely difficult to achieve especially without the CL football to give him the stage and platform to achieve greater things than the last.
I genuinely think he is erring on the side of caution. Does he suspect he will have as good a season as the last? It would be extremely difficult to achieve especially without the CL football to give him the stage and platform to achieve greater things than the last.
We are Tottenham
Kasey Keller
Re: Gareth Bale
Oh my GHod...not Joe Lewis............hes a money man is'nt he?
goodbye Bale..................................................................................................
hes not really interested in the football...........but just the money!
Oh my GHod...not Joe Lewis............hes a money man is'nt he?
goodbye Bale..................................................................................................
hes not really interested in the football...........but just the money!
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
Re: Gareth Bale
He's interested in making Tottenham as a club worth more. A short term input like the money for Bale won't interest him.
He's interested in making Tottenham as a club worth more. A short term input like the money for Bale won't interest him.
Rossi22
Pedro Mendes
Re: Gareth Bale
He could've done that by investing in a striker at any point during the last three years.
He could've done that by investing in a striker at any point during the last three years.
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Re: Gareth Bale
If he doesn't think he can have another good season with Spurs why does he think he is going to be able to handle the constant pressure in Madrid?
Something weird happened, something that meant he couldn't wait one more year. I'd love to know the ins and outs of this.
If he doesn't think he can have another good season with Spurs why does he think he is going to be able to handle the constant pressure in Madrid?
Something weird happened, something that meant he couldn't wait one more year. I'd love to know the ins and outs of this.
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
Re: Gareth Bale
I've just been given quite an interesting take on things. Bit of background first. When I was at uni I did a dissertation on the legality of the way football clubs conduct business transactions. Anyway during my research I became 'friends' with what were then FIFA agents, but are now agents approved by FIFA. Some of them went onto represent players but 2bh I've never ever got any exciting info 'inside info' from them.
Anyway, I asked them about Gareth Bale. They don't know anything about what is going on with him right now (so this isn't ITK on Bale as such) but one of them has had recent dealings with R Madrid and said that he thinks Bale and his agents have decided to push for a move this summer as his value to Spurs is rapidly increasing beyond the means many clubs (including Madrid) have.
Bale wants to go to Spain, but the state of the economy over there means that Madrid & Barcelona no longer have the backing and bank/local government guarantees that they did a few years ago.
While Bale's camp believe he'd still be an attractive proposition for Madrid next summer, they know that after the season he has just had the political pressure to buy him at Madrid is probably never going to be stronger. A poll of Real Madrid fans shows that about 99% of them want Real Madrid to buy Bale and nobody else. In the summer that Barca bought Neymar, thiere is huge political pressure on Madrid to make this move happen. This means that the will to financially overstretch themselves and give Spurs what they want is there THIS summer. It may not be there next summer. Madrid came out of the Modric transfer pretty bruised in my friend's opinion and gave Spurs much more than they had bargained on. The 'relationship' that was formed was part of this and we have made use of R Madrid's scouting reports to buy players both last summer and this. Apparently Moussa Dembele was recommended to us by R Madrid last summer as someone we should buy if we let them have Modric. They showed us a presentation that showed Dembele's stats and compared them to Modric's and they were very similar. Madrid wanted Modric as a political statement, but had scouted Dembele extensively.
They pushed heavily for Modric last summer and they were very wary of dealing with us again, especially given the response to their first enquiries about Bale. They are desperately trying to get the finance together to get close to what they believe is our valuation. They are struggling however and are going to all of their sponsors for help.
My friend believes that Bale's camp are worried that now that he has become such a big commercial asset to Spurs (and would be to another club) he is in danger of being priced out of Madrid's range and that it is only the massive political pressure Madrid are under form their own fan base and Barca's purchase of Neymar that might push them to do a deal acceptable to Spurs this summer.
To summarise the opinion...its likely Bale doesn't want to go to PSG/Monaco and knows that Spurs will not sell to another English club. He wants to try his hand at Madrid and feels that his best chance is this summer.
I've just been given quite an interesting take on things. Bit of background first. When I was at uni I did a dissertation on the legality of the way football clubs conduct business transactions. Anyway during my research I became 'friends' with what were then FIFA agents, but are now agents approved by FIFA. Some of them went onto represent players but 2bh I've never ever got any exciting info 'inside info' from them.
Anyway, I asked them about Gareth Bale. They don't know anything about what is going on with him right now (so this isn't ITK on Bale as such) but one of them has had recent dealings with R Madrid and said that he thinks Bale and his agents have decided to push for a move this summer as his value to Spurs is rapidly increasing beyond the means many clubs (including Madrid) have.
Bale wants to go to Spain, but the state of the economy over there means that Madrid & Barcelona no longer have the backing and bank/local government guarantees that they did a few years ago.
While Bale's camp believe he'd still be an attractive proposition for Madrid next summer, they know that after the season he has just had the political pressure to buy him at Madrid is probably never going to be stronger. A poll of Real Madrid fans shows that about 99% of them want Real Madrid to buy Bale and nobody else. In the summer that Barca bought Neymar, thiere is huge political pressure on Madrid to make this move happen. This means that the will to financially overstretch themselves and give Spurs what they want is there THIS summer. It may not be there next summer. Madrid came out of the Modric transfer pretty bruised in my friend's opinion and gave Spurs much more than they had bargained on. The 'relationship' that was formed was part of this and we have made use of R Madrid's scouting reports to buy players both last summer and this. Apparently Moussa Dembele was recommended to us by R Madrid last summer as someone we should buy if we let them have Modric. They showed us a presentation that showed Dembele's stats and compared them to Modric's and they were very similar. Madrid wanted Modric as a political statement, but had scouted Dembele extensively.
They pushed heavily for Modric last summer and they were very wary of dealing with us again, especially given the response to their first enquiries about Bale. They are desperately trying to get the finance together to get close to what they believe is our valuation. They are struggling however and are going to all of their sponsors for help.
My friend believes that Bale's camp are worried that now that he has become such a big commercial asset to Spurs (and would be to another club) he is in danger of being priced out of Madrid's range and that it is only the massive political pressure Madrid are under form their own fan base and Barca's purchase of Neymar that might push them to do a deal acceptable to Spurs this summer.
To summarise the opinion...its likely Bale doesn't want to go to PSG/Monaco and knows that Spurs will not sell to another English club. He wants to try his hand at Madrid and feels that his best chance is this summer.