Large Bale offer

[andyp8080]

Sorry if this has been raised already but i have been out of the loop

Do we believe this story of a huge Man U bid for Bale?

Surely we would not have sold for £85m if we had been offered over £100m?

 

[cozzo]

It's ultimately up to the player regardless. As a sidebar I am so over the Bale saga. Can't we just move on.

 

[Kiedis]

Bale is the guy that played Batman.

 

[minesadouble]

Man U were certainly interested and had red nose been there things might have been different. But we wanted a big premium to sell to English club and to United in particular. Bale always preferred RM and apparently had no strong desire to leave Spurs for any other club. It was probably linked to United selling Rooney and Nani or Hernandez. Reality is there were probably too many obstacles to Bale ever joining Man U but the 'other bid' story suits everybody now PR wise.

 

[Col_M]

Yes I believe it.

ManU were desperate to land a big name especially for Moyse's sake. But it would have made no difference anyway when Bale had made up his mind on where he wanted to go. If we'd have attempted to force him to join United, he would have simply refused.

 

[Adam456]

It may well be talk but I will say this: if there was a substantially bigger offer and we refused to do business with them then it proves the point about selling to your rivals. We are 5 points up on them already and that looks more like increasing than decreasing (with Lamela, Sandro, Kaboul not even starting yet, Capoue and Lennon to return, Ericson and Holtby and the team in general integrating).

That 5 points alone could easily be the diff between CL and not at the end of the season. A ManU with Bale might be right up with us

 

[GilzeansGrandad]

It was in the Daily Mirror so it must be true.

 

[Donki]

Yes I believe it.

ManU were desperate to land a big name especially for Moyse's sake. But it would have made no difference anyway when Bale had made up his mind on where he wanted to go. If we'd have attempted to force him to join United, he would have simply refused.

I think they were more desperate to LOOK like they were trying to sign a big name. Their pursuit of Cesc was a non starter and their last ditch attempt to signed the other geezer just looks like our big for Aguero, childish PR.

 

[Spurs 1961]

Yes I believe it.

ManU were desperate to land a big name especially for Moyse's sake. But it would have made no difference anyway when Bale had made up his mind on where he wanted to go. If we'd have attempted to force him to join United, he would have simply refused.

I get the impression from comments made by his agent plus other reports that: 1) it might have happened 2) Spurs really wanted to hang on to Bale and we did not negotiate as though we 'needed' the money from selling Bale 3) Bale only wanted RM 4) £85 mill now was better from a club point of view than £100+ paid over 4/6 years

Anyway who cares now! One thing you can guarantee is that the businessmen who run the club will have got themselves the best possible all round deal. Bale now is history

 

[Gassin's finest]

Manure were interested in Bale at the same time we were, back in the day. But I highly doubt they had that kind of money available, and there was never going to be a case of us strengthening utd ever again after the Berbatov affair. And as has been said, Levy would only have gone for a fee up front, rather than a bloody finance policy, in order to reinvest straight back into the team.

 

[Flashspur]

I suspect that it was more than Real's offer but included substantial 'subject to clauses' that made a mockery of the offer. You know the classic - we'll give you another 10m quid if Wales wins the WC and Bale scores a hat trick. That's just trying to play Levy at his own game. At the end of the day the offer would not have been brilliant or we would have bitten off their hands plus the mitigating factor was selling to an opponent in the PL.

I think Manure's whole approach to buying in the window was slow, amatuerish and possibly incompetent. I mean they failed with how many deals including Fabregas and Hernanes? I can see Franco and DL hearing them out and thinking the net difference is 10m 0r 12m quid and why would we bother plus dealing with Moyes who was working with a piggy bank at Everton was like playing with a kindy kid in amateur hour. Kenwright handled everything and Moyes was out of the picture on negotiations at Everton is my understanding. It must have been like the scene in Austin Powers.

Moyes in newly shaven shiny bald head and tasteful off white nehru jacket with smally pinky raised to the corner of his mouth like Dr. Evil.......'I'll give you er 25 million quid'

DL...."Are you serious?"

Franco stifles a laughs

Moyes......"er...um...I meant 125m pounds".

DL - "OK more like it son...show me the money"

Moyes - eh......whispers to offsider..'where do we keep *the money*'

Offsider whispers back - 'you need a chit to be signed by the Glazers after firstly developing a supporting business case in Word that is precisely 1000 words and no more. You have to present all this to them on a single Power Point slide. Plus you have to flay yourself a 100 times with a cat o nine tails to show that you have recognised the impertanance for even asking first."'

Moyes....looking at DL in a cold sweat "er..in the bank"

DL chuckling 'OK in the bank. I keep my money in the bank as well. So does Franco.'

Franco sniggers in the back ground

DL "so when do I get it?"

Moyes...eyes bulging more than normal and thinking furiously..'Well a 2m quid down payment and after the medical another 5m quid and then 10% every year until its paid.'

DL and Franco look at each other quizzically

DL....Fuck off!

Poor bugger suddenly found himself with a 50+ million quid budget and wet his pants. Maybe next time he'll get a Director of Football to help him out

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

He's gone. We've moved on on the pitch.

Time for us fans to do the same.

We're gonna be alright, you know?

 

[chinaman]

About 3 weeks before he was sold, there was a rumour of Manure offering 50 million pounds. If it had been 100 million, I'm sure his agent will have pushed him there due to a bigger cut for him.

 

[sebcole]

I suspect that it was more than Real's offer but included substantial 'subject to clauses' that made a mockery of the offer. You know the classic - we'll give you another 10m quid if Wales wins the WC and Bale scores a hat trick. That's just trying to play Levy at his own game. At the end of the day the offer would not have been brilliant or we would have bitten off their hands plus the mitigating factor was selling to an opponent in the PL.

I think Manure's whole approach to buying in the window was slow, amatuerish and possibly incompetent. I mean they failed with how many deals including Fabregas and Hernanes? I can see Franco and DL hearing them out and thinking the net difference is 10m 0r 12m quid and why would we bother plus dealing with Moyes who was working with a piggy bank at Everton was like playing with a kindy kid in amateur hour. Kenwright handled everything and Moyes was out of the picture on negotiations at Everton is my understanding. It must have been like the scene in Austin Powers.

Moyes in newly shaven shiny bald head and tasteful off white nehru jacket with smally pinky raised to the corner of his mouth like Dr. Evil.......'I'll give you er 25 million quid'

DL...."Are you serious?"

Franco stifles a laughs

Moyes......"er...um...I meant 125m pounds".

DL - "OK more like it son...show me the money"

Moyes - eh......whispers to offsider..'where do we keep *the money*'

Offsider whispers back - 'you need a chit to be signed by the Glazers after firstly developing a supporting business case in Word that is precisely 1000 words and no more. You have to present all this to them on a single Power Point slide. Plus you have to flay yourself a 100 times with a cat o nine tails to show that you have recognised the impertanance for even asking first."'

Moyes....looking at DL in a cold sweat "er..in the bank"

DL chuckling 'OK in the bank. I keep my money in the bank as well. So does Franco.'

Franco sniggers in the back ground

DL "so when do I get it?"

Moyes...eyes bulging more than normal and thinking furiously..'Well a 2m quid down payment and after the medical another 5m quid and then 10% every year until its paid.'

DL and Franco look at each other quizzically

DL....Fuck off!

Poor bugger suddenly found himself with a 50+ million quid budget and wet his pants. Maybe next time he'll get a Director of Football to help him out

You could and should be a screenwriter!

 

[Kendall]

Even if we did, if Bale was never going anywhere but Madrid, you just have to discount the bigger bid and weigh up whether Madrid's is suitable for what you want to achieve.

 

[Dharmabum]

Doubt very much ManU offtered £15-25M more than Real M.(plus the said £300,000 a week).If they had just offered £10 more than Real M. I doubt Levy would let him leave for Real M.

 

[hodsgod]

Sorry if this has been raised already but i have been out of the loop

Do we believe this story of a huge Man U bid for Bale?

Surely we would not have sold for £85m if we had been offered over £100m?

I am taking it with a very large pinch of salt.