No return as Bale closes in on Jiangsu Suning move

[Japhet]

Running away from what though, he's already achieved everything he needs to achieve, you don't get much better than winning 4 x CL's...doesn't matter who you are of you feel you've achieved everything at the top level of there's a million pound a week contract on the table you're gonna seriously consider it, I understand him signing it.

Running away from the opportunity to stick it to Real Madrid who have treated him like a piece of meat. He's got them in a very tight corner but it looks like he'll let them get away with it and sneak out the back door. No self respect.

 

[Shadydan]

Running away from the opportunity to stick it to Real Madrid who have treated him like a piece of meat. He's got them in a very tight corner but it looks like he'll let them get away with it and sneak out the back door. No self respect.

I don't understand this? How is he meant to stick it to Real?

 

[Metalhead]

Running away from what though, he's already achieved everything he needs to achieve, you don't get much better than winning 4 x CL's...doesn't matter who you are of you feel you've achieved everything at the top level of there's a million pound a week contract on the table you're gonna seriously consider it, I understand him signing it.

Agreed - as you state, he's won a shit load of elite trophies - at the club he dreamed of playing for as a young boy. Nothing else will compare to that so he just wants a pay day now. It's an obscene amount of money but I should say that most would find it hard to turn down. In a sense it's great to see a British player willing to move somewhere like China. A lot of British players are quite parochial and wouldn't dream of going so far from home.

 

[Dougal]

Just got back from a festival of Rag n Bone man and the idles. Ffing brill night. I read this and I can only conclude that Gareth Bale is the biggest feckin **** face in the world. I hope I never hear his name again . I repeat Gareth you are a ****.

So Rag n Bone man accelerates anger issues. Noted.

I’m not angry, I’ll just be a bit disappointed.

When it’s official.

 

[Japhet]

I don't understand this? How is he meant to stick it to Real?

He could sit tight on his 90m contract. If they want him out that badly they'd have to give him a free transfer and he could probably go to an elite team. He'd probably even get the chance to play against them at some point. He could definitely do that if he wasn't so greedy with his demands but he seems to be prioritising the money (which he'll never need). As things stand, RM come out of it pretty much unscathed and he'll be helping them to do it.

 

[Shadydan]

He could sit tight on his 90m contract. If they want him out that badly they'd have to give him a free transfer and he could probably go to an elite team. He'd probably even get the chance to play against them at some point. He could definitely do that if he wasn't so greedy with his demands but he seems to be prioritising the money (which he'll never need). As things stand, RM come out of it pretty much unscathed and he'll be helping them to do it.

They weren't prepared to give him an easy ride hence them trying to bully him into leaving. They were I reckon at best going to subside his wages elsewhere but even then that would be a loan and real would still own his ass.

Also no one needs £1m a week but no one is turning that money down rich or not rich. Multi million pound business or business people stay rich because they take opportunities which will keep them up rich, there's no such thing as 'too much money'.

 

[Smokinhotspur]

Sad end to his time at RM. Tbf, he hasn't helped himself by not learning the language after 6 years there and seemingly not making an effort to integrate with the squad if reports are to be believed. Was a sad sight at the end of 2018 CL final where he basically won them the trophy with two goals but looked very isolated in the celebrations on the pitch at the end of the game.

If a return to Spurs wasn't on the cards, at least hoped he would end up at a place like Bayern where he could show he still has what it takes at the top level for a couple of years. The financial aspect is there for all to see but his sporting ambition has to be questioned if this China move goes through.

 

[Ossie'sAardvark]

If its his preferred option. Good luck GB . Deep down I was always a bit concerned he might see himself as a "gift" if he came to us.

 

[FibreOpticJesus]

So Rag n Bone man accelerates anger issues. Noted.

I’m not angry, I’ll just be a bit disappointed.

When it’s official.

No anger comes from The Idles. I thought GB was better than that.

What a waste.

 

[WhiteHeartLowe]

I am disapointed in him if he goes for this. People saying that an offer like that is too hard to turn down, I think that would be true when its viewed through the eyes of a normal person, like one of us, but he is already a multi millionaire, has more money than he will spend in two life times, from that perspective getting so much more becomes just zeros on your bank statement, or at least I think it should. He is effectively ending his career at thirty by joining a league that no one will see bar the fans in the stadium, the rest of the footballing world will forget him. Even the MLS would have been a better choice. Its a sad way for such a talent to disappear into obscurity.

 

[double0]

Very disappointed with Bale. I thought it was about football.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

I probably think it's hard for a mortal fan to judge Bale for where he moves to and what he does from here. Maybe a move to China is about sports to him. Maybe it's not only about a pay check. Maybe he's family doesn't see it as uprooting. Maybe he thinks that there is nothing left to challenge him in Europe. What do we really know?

But as far as sports goes. Bale, Bale's story and Bale's salary does reflect a problem. But not with the individual player, but the sport. It is a systematic failure within the sports that leads to the best players not performing to their best levels within Europe, being cast aside, AND being overpaid.

Football the sport is systematically broken. But Bale the individual isn't necessarily broken only because of a potential move to China.

 

[olliec]

I can see why RM want him off the books now. Motivated by money and lost his love for the game. Maybe Madrid are not the bad guys after all if Bale goes to China.

 

[Thewobbler]

I have no problem with what bale is doing but I don't want to read shit sob stories about a millionaire footballer making sacrifices like this one:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/personal-sacrifice-gareth-bale-must-18788706

"Gareth Bale is set to leave his wife and three kids 5,700 miles away in Wales – to earn £1million a week in China.

Gareth – who wed school sweetheart Emma last month – will make the sacrifice to secure their financial future as the world’s best-paid player."

"Emma, 27, Alba Violet, six, Nava Valentina, three, and Axel Charles, one, will live in the family’s £4million farmhouse while he plays in Nanjing."

“It’s a sacrifice they’re prepared to make for £1million a week.

“After all, they never really settled in Spain so they’d have no chance in China.”

 

[bigspurs]

As soon as he started with that top-knot hair thing, I knew that he had become a bit of a self obsessed twat. No easy way back from that place. Good luck to him though, the money is amazing.