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The "Official" 2013/14 Other teams matches thread

chancer said:
I'm not down with the Bale hate at all. I'm rooting for him to turn it around. Not least as a football fan who just wants to see great things on the pitch. Last night I kept wanting him to grab the ball on half way and just tear at defenders Inter-style. That is a great sight, whoever it is doing it.

I don't watch much Spanish football and last night reminded me why. The play-acting and officiating are unbearable. The play, for all the skill on display, is strangely static. Bale spent most of the game standing still - and it wasn't just him. Players seem rooted in some kind of zonal area and the whole thing just lacks dynamism. Also, the atmosphere was pants. No away fans is a world of suck. So yeah, I'll be watching Bale's games just out of interest, but I've no inclination to watch ordinary games.
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If he doesn't turn it around we well be sold back to the Premier League and will end up at United no doubt. Everyone here should want him to succeed if only for that.
 
Modric THFC said:
If he doesn't turn it around we well be sold back to the Premier League and will end up at United no doubt. Everyone here should want him to succeed if only for that.
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Do you not think we have a buy back clause in there and first dibs? I think we do. I suspect we have an inkling he could fail and we buy him back at a certain price should he do so.
 
DHSF said:
Do you not think we have a buy back clause in there and first dibs? I think we do. I suspect we have an inkling he could fail and we buy him back at a certain price should he do so.
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I don't think buy back clauses are really that common.

United already have their eye on him
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/sport/football/article1332688.ece

Jonathan Northcroft and Duncan Castles

Manchester United are monitoring Gareth Bale's adaptation at Real Madrid in the hope of bringing the Welshman back to the Premier League. With Madrid president Florentino Perez already under pressure for sanctioning Bale's world-record €100million fee and the player targeted by sceptical Spanish media, United believe it may be possible to broker a deal by the coming summer.

David Moyes and Ed Woodward made a concerted effort to bring Bale to Old Trafford in the last transfer window. United's newly installed manager and chief executive pairing moved when it became clear that Madrid were stalling on the detail of the €100m move.

United offered to match Tottenham's aggressive valuation of Bale with a bid that would have more than doubled the champions' record transfer spend. They are also understood to have included a player exchange in the deal that was more appealing to Tottenham than any proposed by Madrid as the market drew to a close.

At the same time Perez was attempting to broker an alternative move for Radamel Falcao. Though Madrid were ready to spend as much as €90m on a striker who had joined AS Monaco for two thirds of that fee just three months earlier, the principality club would not countenance such an accelerated sale of their own headline signing.

Desperate to deliver a Galactico recruit to Madrid's support after a summer in which he had lost Neymar to Barcelona, Perez came to a final agreement with Tottenham. On his part, Bale pushed for the completion what he subsequently labelled "a dream" switch to the game's most affluent club.

Whether the forward will continue to hold that opinion of Madrid now he is part of the club remains to be seen. His entry to the Bernabeu has been clouded by injury and negative reporting. Cristiano Ronaldo's presence prevents Bale from assuming the free role that catapulted him to Player of the Year status. And, as his new Portuguese team-mate can attest, even scoring at more than a goal a game may not be sufficient to satisfy Madridistas.

"People are putting a lot of pressure on him because of what he cost and all that but I don't think it's good for him," said Ronaldo last week. "If you want to try to help him don't put too much pressure on him, leave him alone."

United's calculation is that such pressures could play hard enough on Bale and Perez to leave them receptive to a summer transfer.
Potentially at a discounted fee.
 
DHSF said:
Do you not think we have a buy back clause in there and first dibs? I think we do. I suspect we have an inkling he could fail and we buy him back at a certain price should he do so.
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Don't forget Bale's wages, he's on £300 000 a week - one sixth of our total wage budget.
 
Terrible defending. I don't want to start critiquing that equaliser but defending like that is why Sunderland are where they are now.
 
paxtonwolf said:
Totally agree. Over the years how many times have said 'They wont keep up this run' and it doesnt happen. Those two are in ominous good form right now and its worrying indeed.
Still early days, we all have some big games coming up in the next few weeks, but we certainly need to get knocking in the goals
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Very, very rarely.

It's massively outweighed by the number of times people have spent October wetting their panties about Arsenal and Liverpool only for them both to end up way short of the points required to finish even second, let alone first.
 
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