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Player Watch: Gareth Bale - Retires

rez9000

Any point?
Feb 8, 2007
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Bale is BACK! Tottenham seal return for Welsh winger on a £13m season-long loan from Real Madrid with announcement imminent after Jose Mourinho drove the deal
  • Gareth Bale has sealed a sensational return to re-join Tottenham this summer
  • The Wales winger has agreed a deal to go back worth around £13million-a-year
  • Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has been key in getting the deal over the line
  • Bale left Spurs seven years ago for Real Madrid but has been frozen out of late
  • Sportsmail understands the deal will see no players make the move to Madrid
Even that headline won't make me click onto the Daily Mail site.
 

Daarkest

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Jan 27, 2011
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Bale is BACK! Tottenham seal return for Welsh winger on a £13m season-long loan from Real Madrid with announcement imminent after Jose Mourinho drove the deal
  • Gareth Bale has sealed a sensational return to re-join Tottenham this summer
  • The Wales winger has agreed a deal to go back worth around £13million-a-year
  • Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has been key in getting the deal over the line
  • Bale left Spurs seven years ago for Real Madrid but has been frozen out of late
  • Sportsmail understands the deal will see no players make the move to Madrid


And then in that article 'There is no indication yet as to when Tottenham – who face Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Europa League on Thursday – will make an official announcement but it will happen once a few minor contractual issues are signed'

So it's not complete - total click bait!!!
 

BringBack_leGin

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Jul 28, 2004
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I do a similar thing for the Home Office. Lots of people want to bring in new systems and I'm the one who has to tell them, 'actually that will contravene this piece of the Data Protection Act or that part of GDPR'. The salient points of a project or deal are easy and quick to set up - you have an objective and you have a path to that objective - nice and simple. But it's about making sure you can complete that path to the objective that can be littered with issues and that's what takes time to sort out - not necessarily because there's any kind of disagreement, just people who want the same thing trying to decide the best way of resolving a question.

Good to see you posting. Somehow I feel like I’ve not seen enough of that this year.


Bale is BACK! Tottenham seal return for Welsh winger on a £13m season-long loan from Real Madrid with announcement imminent after Jose Mourinho drove the deal
  • Gareth Bale has sealed a sensational return to re-join Tottenham this summer
  • The Wales winger has agreed a deal to go back worth around £13million-a-year
  • Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has been key in getting the deal over the line
  • Bale left Spurs seven years ago for Real Madrid but has been frozen out of late
  • Sportsmail understands the deal will see no players make the move to Madrid
Very bold call. Stinks of trying to stake a claim for ‘first to break it’ with his caveat of ‘not sure when it’ll be announced’.
 

mrlilywhite

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Sep 1, 2008
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Bale is BACK! Tottenham seal return for Welsh winger on a £13m season-long loan from Real Madrid with announcement imminent after Jose Mourinho drove the deal
  • Gareth Bale has sealed a sensational return to re-join Tottenham this summer
  • The Wales winger has agreed a deal to go back worth around £13million-a-year
  • Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has been key in getting the deal over the line
  • Bale left Spurs seven years ago for Real Madrid but has been frozen out of late
  • Sportsmail understands the deal will see no players make the move to Madrid
Fail jumping the gun again ??
 

WorthATry

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Aug 31, 2012
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Does he add the @ because he's quoting them, or is he trying to draw their attention to the post so he gets credit or something?

Glad I don't understand Twitter that well.

Daily Hotspur is just an aggregator of Spurs news around the web. In this instance the Daily Mail is the source
 

fishhhandaricecake

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Nov 15, 2018
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Do many of these big name players on loan actually go for 2 years?

wasn’t coutiniho’s loan to bayern 1 year for example?

would love it to be a 2yr loan or perm deal but think most likely is 1yr loan which is better than no bale at all
 

Rocksuperstar

Isn't this fun? Isn't fun the best thing to have?
Jun 6, 2005
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Play around with the URL enough and i suspect that there are unlinked but published stories of how he nearly did, how he did yesterday and how it never happened on there too somewhere.

It's actually a bit impressive that the Mail Online has become as equally abhorrent as the paper version but for entirely different reasons.
 

Yid-ol

Just-outside Edinburgh
Jan 16, 2006
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Got to be 1 with an option, it isn’t like he would want to go back after a year.
Have you not seen any of our games at the end of last season,or the everton game! He might want to! :cautious: :X3:
 

leelee

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Oct 6, 2004
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I think tonight is the transfer version of squeaky bum time.

Please god don't move those goalposts!!
 

Daarkest

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Jan 27, 2011
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For those who cant see the article - simple cut and paste not including the headline which was visible in the link:

Gareth Bale completed his emotional return to Tottenham on Wednesday night in a move that was driven by Jose Mourinho.
The Wales international has agreed terms on a year-long deal that Sportsmail understands to be worth more than £13million – part of which will be financed by Real Madrid – and he is relishing the prospect of relaunching his career at the club that propelled him to stardom.
There is no indication yet as to when Tottenham – who face Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Europa League on Thursday – will make an official announcement but it will happen once a few minor contractual issues are signed.
 

Real_madyidd

The best username, unless you are a fucking idiot.
Oct 25, 2004
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If you are going to do that you may as well just pay the salary. Time value of money is in your favor.

Not true. Let's say Hugo and Kane have clauses that say they will get the highest wage at the club, then you have to pay them both an extra 400k a week.

Bale wants his money. Real want to say they are no longer paying him. Spurs need to not pay it to him.
 

Rob

The Boss
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Jun 8, 2003
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Getting the 2012 smileys ready to go :p

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Athenspur

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If Levy pulls this off without compromising the financial (and general) stability of the club in any way, the man is a wizard.
 

doctor stefan Freud

the tired tread of sad biology
Sep 2, 2013
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Fucking hell, not only did a majority of you spitefully change your avatars to make it a very small amount less easy for me to effortlessly browse the content on SC, but now we're seeing people refer to avatars as an "avi" like that's some kind of valid abbreviation rather than an irritatingly incorrect term better used to refer to a now-redundant video file format. Who gives a shit about what happens with Gareth Bale when you guys are fucking up the important stuff? :mad:
Nerd alert
 
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