Gareth Bale

[C0YS]

Yeah and Bale is not a Poch player, can you see him pressing? Plus he's over 25 and we all know that we don't sign adults as they have no sell on value.

Bale worked his socks of in a spurs shirt, people have short memories.

 

[Gbspurs]

It would be up there with one of the most stunning signings in football history IMO. I want to believe but seems lunacy to even think it.

The boost he'd give the team and the signal it would send could propel us to new heights.

I actually think the financials are doable but my concern is squad unrest. If we pay him £300k a week, what's to stop at least 5 or 6 others asking for an extra £100k. All of a sudden, we're having to another £30m in wages just to keep still.

So, well, file under unlikely. I'm also worried about the state my penis would be in after I'd finished with it once he signed.

If he comes he won't be getting paid 300k

 

[Danny1]

So I can't be the only one who went on YouTube and type in "all Bale goals for Tottenham" and watch the ten minute video of all his goals for us........all the while building u realistic hopes up!

Come back to us monkey boy, you were loved so much and you would be seen as a true yid forever!

 

[Twizzle]

Is this guy any good ?

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

This is just bullshit. None of it makes sense:

• His wages
• His age
• His injury record in a much less physically demanding league
• Other, wealthier suitors
• The Nike -funding -the -move argument

Never going to happen

 

[SpartanSpur]

I think the fact I had to come up with a basketball reference of a similar scenario just shows how unlikely it would be to happen in modern football sadly.

Guess Rooney this summer would qualify if he wasn't clearly shot to pieces...

 

[St José Dominguez]

Feel a bit stupid even typing in this thread but his price tag really wouldn't be 'that' high. I bet Madrid owe us a big chunk of the fee still, so if you consider that would be wiped we'd probably get him for £45-50m.
If he did for some mad reason fancy coming back the reasons it surely couldn't happen will be wages and what these wages would do to rest of team (agents would be stampeding trying to get unsustainable pay rises for their clients).

Transfer fee is fine so the only way it could possibly happen is if he's on 120k and the rest of the money is made up in other ways. You're probably talking about £8m a year extra Bale would require. I'd just give him it in bonuses because he'd be reason we won the league but from a business sense it's madness.

 

[Spurger King]

Not a chance in hell we'll re-sign Bale.

• Huge fee
• Massive wages that would wreck our wage structure and piss off other key players
• Plenty of richer clubs that would be after him
• Highly likely that he'd see it as an admission of failure coming back to us
• Not even remotely a Levy signing, considering age and current injury record
• Doesn't fit the style of player Pochettino likes

 

[JerryGarcia]

Bale worked his socks of in a spurs shirt, people have short memories.

It was a joke my friend

And that goes to @Krule too for somehow thinking I was serious about Bale taking £30k a week and giving half away.

Tough crowd tonight

 

[C0YS]

If this information is true then you might as well lump on Bale joining United or City, as all it says to me is Madrid want rid of him and we have a first option clause that we blatantly won't ever use.

This is Levy's chance to make a statement? The only statements Levy makes are the ones accusing other clubs of tapping up our players with a view to squeezing a few extra million out of them!

Its pretty much an open secret these days that they want Bale out, as well as generally a phasing out of the old guard. £88m is what they want apparently. Its Bale who doesn't seem so keen on a move.

Thing is even last season Bale wasn't bad per say, and in fact started the season on fire, but he was unlucky with injuries, particularly has he got injured after a set of great performances after a lull following his great start. Then he got himself fit, then got himself sent off then got injured again. Asensio took his chances and suddenly Bale doesn't seem that important. Mbappe meanwhile wants first team football if he were to come to madrid, and if ronaldo stays, they need to make space for him. Bale leaving makes sense.

 

[SpartanSpur]

Not a chance in hell we'll re-sign Bale.

• Huge fee
• Massive wages that would wreck our wage structure and piss off other key players
• Plenty of richer clubs that would be after him
• Highly likely that he'd see it as an admission of failure coming back to us
• Not even remotely a Levy signing, considering age and current injury record
• Doesn't fit the style of player Pochettino likes

I'm not fully convinced by this one. Maybe if players were outperforming him after a couple of seasons. I don't think everyone at Real is annoyed at Ronaldo earning much more than them, same with Messi and Neymar. I doubt Herrera is going in asking for parity with Pogba either. I also doubt Wanyama is expecting for parity with Kane.

Bale is one of the very few genuine world class PL players in recent years, I think our players would be happy initially if he came in.

The problem is wages creep (such as Lingard on 100k at Utd), and that is where this just seems impossible.

 

[C0YS]

It was a joke my friend

And that goes to @Krule too for somehow thinking I was serious about Bale taking £30k a week and giving half away.

Tough crowd tonight

Thing is there are people with that view. It seems to me that some actually woudn't take Bale, which is crazy!

 

[JerryGarcia]

Thing is there are people with that view. It seems to me that some actually woudn't take Bale, which is crazy!

Yes those are the people I was trying to mock, they're commonly known as morons.

 

[hutchiniho]

Not a chance in hell we'll re-sign Bale.

• Huge fee
• Massive wages that would wreck our wage structure and piss off other key players
• Plenty of richer clubs that would be after him
• Highly likely that he'd see it as an admission of failure coming back to us
• Not even remotely a Levy signing, considering age and current injury record
• Doesn't fit the style of player Pochettino likes

I think we all know this is all incredibly unrealistic but this point is utter gash SK. Which manager in the history of football wouldn't want a guy like Bale playing for him/her? 'Nah I don't want one of the top ten players on the planet in my team, doesn't fit my style' ! Seriously. Go all out to discredit something we know isn't going to happen sure but don't pretend Pochettino would turn Bale down. Imagine what he'd say about Ronaldo? 50 goals a season, on your bike pal, you don't fit my style either. Close someone down ffs! Would he even want Messi? world class sure but not my style either.

 

[Hoddle&Waddle]

Not a chance in hell we'll re-sign Bale.

• Huge fee
• Massive wages that would wreck our wage structure and piss off other key players
• Plenty of richer clubs that would be after him
• Highly likely that he'd see it as an admission of failure coming back to us
• Not even remotely a Levy signing, considering age and current injury record
• Doesn't fit the style of player Pochettino likes

Poch has already said he'd sign Bale in a heartbeat, and seriously how is 25 too old? Soldado and Sissoko have been two of our biggest buys over recent years and both much older than that.

Agree that we wont be signing him though.

 

[sbrustad]

Poch has already said he'd sign Bale in a heartbeat, and seriously how is 25 too old? Soldado and Sissoko have been two of our biggest buys over recent years and both much older than that.

He turns 28 in a week.

Anyway, even though I don't think this is going to happen either, he has accomplished everything he can possibly accomplish at Real Madrid. Putting aside wages and transfer fee (and I don't think we can..) it's not out of the realm of possibility.

I think any club in the world would take Bale, we'd be silly not to if we could. But, like you I don't think we can.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Poch has already said he'd sign Bale in a heartbeat, and seriously how is 25 too old? Soldado and Sissoko have been two of our biggest buys over recent years and both much older than that.

Agree that we wont be signing him though.

Gareth Bale will be celebrating his 28th birthday in 9 days.

 

[Spurger King]

I'm not fully convinced by this one. Maybe if players were outperforming him after a couple of seasons. I don't think everyone at Real is annoyed at Ronaldo earning much more than them, same with Messi and Neymar. I doubt Herrera is going in asking for parity with Pogba either. I also doubt Wanyama is expecting for parity with Kane.

Bale is one of the very few genuine world class PL players in recent years, I think our players would be happy initially if he came in.

The problem is wages creep (such as Lingard on 100k at Utd), and that is where this just seems impossible.

Kane, Dele, Alderweireld, probably Lloris would all have reason to claim that they are among the very best in their positions. If they expect more (not necessarily equal to Bale), then Eriksen, Wanyama, Vertonghen, and the rest of our first team players would be within reason to expect an increase too.

I'd love Bale to come back. Whilst we're at it I'd love for us to compete with the oil clubs when it comes to wages too. We've done brilliantly to punch above our weight, but as we're seeing with Walker there comes a point when success leads to players reevaluating their worth.

Stick Bale in the middle of that and it's going to cause problems. It's completely unrealistic and I don't believe the ITK stuff on this one in the slightest.

Plus I actually had rare ITK on United a few years ago, and I know for a fact that he has been their top target as the natural replacement for Giggs, and that their people were certainly very close to him even after the Madrid transfer. Out of the loop now but I doubt they've changed their stance much. That ITK came from a family friend of Giggs, who told me what Giggs himself had said. It was United that even pushed him to switching to No.11 as part of their marketing, only for Madrid to blow them out of the water. If he comes back to England I'm convinced that he'll go to United.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Gareth Bale will be celebrating his 28th birthday in 9 days.

In a Real shirt

 

[C0YS]

Not a chance in hell we'll re-sign Bale.

• Huge fee
• Massive wages that would wreck our wage structure and piss off other key players
• Plenty of richer clubs that would be after him
• Highly likely that he'd see it as an admission of failure coming back to us
• Not even remotely a Levy signing, considering age and current injury record
• Doesn't fit the style of player Pochettino likes

I think he does fit the style Poch likes. He is quick physical, does a lot of running (less for Madrid, but look at him play for Wales) he can play in multiple positions and can provide width and offer something different which Poch wants.

Also Poch has essentially already said he would love Bale at spurs. After the transfer details were leaked, and we found out that we have a first refusal on him he

"I think if we have the option to sign him - why not? He's a great player and a player that can improve our squad."

So there you go!