Not 1 quote from Bale in that article. Could be just pure speculation.
I'm convinced this type of 'media' outlet is just a puppet controlled by one of the bigger media outlets, they make up spurious bullshit, then the bigger outlets get to report it like it's actual news.It's Don Balon. The Spanish Daily Star. Ignore it.
Watched Gelson Martins last night in CL; he was pretty rubbish.Reality is, for Bale money we could sign 2x absolute elite U23 talents like Davinson.
Say Gelson Martins and Sessegnon, for examples.
Watched Gelson Martins last night in CL; he was pretty rubbish.
I still disagree, I mean, sure you get a lot of talent for that money, huge talent even, but Bale has the intangibles, if he's still the same player that left us he's got the ability to single handedly win us the tough games in which we've been banging our heads against the wall, I don't think a Gelson Martins or a Ryan Sessegnon would give us that, at least not in the next couple of years.Not surprised, I get to watch naff all football nowadays, Spurs aside, but you get the drift that two €40-50 U23s would be better for the team.
See, that response was so smart that you just had to post it, and couldn't make your self think through its validity before posting. There is only a partial correlation between book awards and income potential. And football biographies are written exclusively to make money, not to win prizes. A former footballer you can barely remember as a player (a shame really, as he is Spurs fan), Dave Kitson, is adding to his retirement funds as we speak, as "The Secret Footballer". Now, it's not exactly something that would ever win the nobel prize in literature, but it doesn't have to be, it's not the point. Knowing this country, if the former director of communication in Downing Street can publish a book about Brexit and Cameron, a book about "the boy who became a man and returned home" with a great, smiling, bearded Bale showing off his man bun on the cover will sell quite a few copies, and not only to his own mum, either.
And it doesn't stop there. Book is only one example. Say your (or Bale's) contract states that the club grants the player the right to undertake other business activities not directly related to or in competition with the services he is rendering to the club under this contract. Now all of the sudden, Bale could launch his own range of nose hair clippers, his own brand of crap Spanish red wine, or his own thong bathing suits for men. All with Bale's heart icon on it.
Who is Don Balon? The name sounds like a cheaper copy of Ballon d'or. And the award for the most drunk player of the year goes to..
We have first refusal if he leaves and I'm sure Bale wouldn't be opposed to coming back at some point. Could we really afford to spend the money it would take to do this deal, without moving on one of our current stars? For me the cost would be too great for what is now a world class player but who is plagued with injuries.