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You may be right but I don't think it's that simple. Age plays a huge factor in transfer fees -- Neymar is at the height of his powers, and at the time they were bought Mbappe and Dembele seemed like they would be players you could build a team around for the next decade. That gives all of those players massive sell-on potential, which inflates the fees required to buy them.Lol no chance they take a £35m hit on what they paid for Bale when fees have increased massively since 2013. They'll want what they paid for him at least IMO.
Bale on the other hand is nearing 30 and is a borderline permacrock. Whoever buys him will have no hope of recouping the fee they lay out to bring him in. The whole of world football knows that Madrid will be looking to sell in order to go after the likes of Hazard or Salah, so they aren't exactly going to have a great bargaining position. United are genuinely the only club in the world who I could possibly envision spending anywhere near 80m for Bale, if he goes anywhere else it'll be for somewhere in the 50-60m range IMO.