Wheeler Dealer
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It’s legendary status to you and I, but feel that he was never loved and embraced by the Madrid fans and definitely the Spanish media.
Player Watch: Gareth Bale - Retires
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Gassin's finest
C'est diabolique
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Yeah well, they're a bunch of spoiled fickle idiots.
Tucker
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Hankie waving ****s.
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The more I think about it, either Madrid fans have unbelievably high standards or I , as a Tottenham fan, am really starved for trophies. Because if Bale won us a League cup, let alone the FA Cup, PL or UCL trophy, he could literally leave the stadium mid-game to go play golf and I would be okay with that 
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McFlash
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It's heart vs head for me.
Head is concerned about his fitness, commitment and whether he suits Conte but heart says fuck yes, I would love to see him back.
Thankfully, I'm a hopeless romantic so I'm going for yes, bring him home!
Head is concerned about his fitness, commitment and whether he suits Conte but heart says fuck yes, I would love to see him back.
Thankfully, I'm a hopeless romantic so I'm going for yes, bring him home!
rabbikeane
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Head also says that he's the guy that will take us that additional step in a final and get us a trophy.
SpursSince1980
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Would be happy to have him back. But at a very reasonable, incentive-laden rate.
coy-spurs1882
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yet he still scored 11 goals for us in the league in last season
McFlash
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Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, he was very good for us last time and he should've been picked more often. There is absolutely no doubting his ability, he's one of the best players of his generation.
It's just a concern I have, possibly due to being influenced by some of the ridiculously unfair criticism he's received over the years. His situation at Madrid has been ridiculous but there is a little part of me that thinks he may not be entirely blameless either, no matter how terribly Madrid and their fans have treated him.
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Blatant Bale being Blatant
"Sorry Gareth, 11 has been taken"
"I'll get it one way or another"
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It wasn't a great cultural fit for Bale. From what I've read and from several interviews, he barely hangs out with his teammates and spends time with his family or golfing. It took him awhile to learn Spanish, though he knows a decent amount of the language, he barely speaks it according to some of his teammates.
With all that said, the madridistas are an extremely fickle and entitled bunch and it really doesn't take much for a player to earn their wrath and disdain, even if said player has won them multiple trophies. I certainly wouldn't be eager to return from injury to then be in a stadium where your own fans boo you, or be around a manager who for no good reason decides your surplus to requirements after your UCL heroics or be in the same city where reporters have carte blanche to write vile lies about you. If I was in that kind of environment, I would do everything in my power to find a healthy outlet and avoid all those stressors.
DiamondLites
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Bring him home, we need a LWB ?
In all seriousness I’d love him back here, with full stadiums showing him with love. Even if he only plays the bottom feeders with cameos against the better sides, he’d still get double figure goals and assists and give us a viable rotation option across the front line. As long as he is happy with that, and Conte is happy to have him, then it’s a no-brainer
In all seriousness I’d love him back here, with full stadiums showing him with love. Even if he only plays the bottom feeders with cameos against the better sides, he’d still get double figure goals and assists and give us a viable rotation option across the front line. As long as he is happy with that, and Conte is happy to have him, then it’s a no-brainer
Gassin's finest
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Look at how they treated Hazard when he had the temerity to say a friendly hello with an old friend and team mate. It was like he'd killed someone.
Bunch of drama queens. I'm amazed he stuck around that long.
Bunch of drama queens. I'm amazed he stuck around that long.
blodge99
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I was at the game the other night, and the atmosphere was undescribable - I've never experienced anything like it watching live sport. I was in Lille when we beat Belgium in 2016 (which was unbelievable) but Thursday night topped this.
Gareth was amazing and you could see how much it meant to him. 2 stunning goals...praying he can do it again in June.
Also, a huge shout out too our other Welsh mafia boys - Ben was his normal solid, dependable self and Joey had a stormer. Bullied Arnautovic the whole game. To do that after barely kicking a ball all season was just crazy.
Gareth was amazing and you could see how much it meant to him. 2 stunning goals...praying he can do it again in June.
Also, a huge shout out too our other Welsh mafia boys - Ben was his normal solid, dependable self and Joey had a stormer. Bullied Arnautovic the whole game. To do that after barely kicking a ball all season was just crazy.
olliec
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Really hope Joe has a future at us.
If a fan base feels that a player is disrespectful to and/or dismissive of the club and its culture, his previous contributions to the club will be disregarded, however considerable.
I'd throw up the example of Sol Campbell, but I can't stomach the thought of responding to the chalk/cheese protestations - though the analogy holds. Let's go with, instead, Paolo Maldini, who was pilloried on his way out at Milan, which is incomprehensible to any but the Milanenses.
Basically, when Bale posed with that banner, his fate with Madridistas was sealed. If that wasn't an 'eff you' to Real ... well, it just was. And that's that. What you, I, or any other non-Madradista thinks is immaterial. When Ghaly threw the shirt ... and, OK, Ghaly was shit by comparison, but would that matter? Of course not. Sometimes, there's no way back.
Fuck off, Hossam. Fuck off, Sol. That's what I say, with utter indifference to what any non-yid thinks. And I'd be daft to expect Madrid fans to be more deferential to Bale just because he was effing great for them awhile back.
'He should be a club legend at Madrid.' Please. That he's not is on him. And if he doesn't care, why should I? That's right, I don't.
I'd have him here come August, though. Come home again, Gareth. I don't mind that you love golf more than Madrid. I do, too.
... I've had a few.
I'd throw up the example of Sol Campbell, but I can't stomach the thought of responding to the chalk/cheese protestations - though the analogy holds. Let's go with, instead, Paolo Maldini, who was pilloried on his way out at Milan, which is incomprehensible to any but the Milanenses.
Basically, when Bale posed with that banner, his fate with Madridistas was sealed. If that wasn't an 'eff you' to Real ... well, it just was. And that's that. What you, I, or any other non-Madradista thinks is immaterial. When Ghaly threw the shirt ... and, OK, Ghaly was shit by comparison, but would that matter? Of course not. Sometimes, there's no way back.
Fuck off, Hossam. Fuck off, Sol. That's what I say, with utter indifference to what any non-yid thinks. And I'd be daft to expect Madrid fans to be more deferential to Bale just because he was effing great for them awhile back.
'He should be a club legend at Madrid.' Please. That he's not is on him. And if he doesn't care, why should I? That's right, I don't.
I'd have him here come August, though. Come home again, Gareth. I don't mind that you love golf more than Madrid. I do, too.
... I've had a few.
Gilzeanking
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But how would Gareth get by on less than 600k/week ?
