Daily Mail - Bale 'despondent' and Spurs try to 'bribe' him into signing new deal

[tototoner]

you couldn't make this stuff up, one of the worse articles on Tottenham this season and that is saying something

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...eth-Bale-leave-Totteham-Champions-League.html

It's Europe or bust for wing wizard Bale as he waits to discover Spurs destiny​

Tottenham face a huge battle to keep hold of £60million star Gareth Bale if their Champions League campaign ends today in failure.​

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Real Madrid, Manchester United and Manchester City are all circling the Wales winger, who this season completed his own personal treble of player-of-the-year awards.​

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Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is desperate to keep hold of Bale to give his side an opportunity of challenging towards the top of the Premier League next season.​

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But the 23-year-old is growing increasingly despondent at the prospect of another year without Champions League football, particularly as he will not be playing in next year’s World Cup.​

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Fifth-place Spurs go into this afternoon’s final round of Premier League games, dubbed ‘Judgment Sunday’, needing to beat Sunderland at home and for Arsenal to fail to win at Newcastle in order to qualify for Europe’s top competition.​

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Bale failed to commit his future to Spurs when collecting his Football Writers’ Footballer-of-the-Year award this month. And the Mail on Sunday understand reports that he is currently in negotiations over a new deal with the club are wide of the mark.​

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Madrid regard Bale as their No1 target this summer. Manchester City are keen to sign new A-list players after two failures in the Champions League, while the prospects of Bale agreeing to join United have increased with the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson — who failed to lure the player to Old Trafford when he was at Southampton — and uncertainty over the future of Wayne Rooney.​

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Bale has shot into the A-list of European footballers this season with 30 goals for club and country. He also won the PFA player and young player-of-the-year awards, the first recipient since Cristiano Ronaldo to enjoy a clean sweep of all three major personal honours.​

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Originally a left-back, Bale pushed forward as a thrilling left winger but now sees his long-term future playing in a central free role behind a striker. If he pushes to leave White Hart Lane to further his own career, it will provide a fascinating stand-off with Levy. The Tottenham chief showed with Luka Modric’s attempts to join Chelsea that he is capable of standing his ground.​

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However, with the money on offer for Bale, Spurs would be unwilling to keep an unhappy player, particularly as manager Andre Villas-Boas has other transfer targets in mind, including Joao Moutinho, Christian Benteke, Leandro and Roberto Soldado.​

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Should Spurs be celebrating a top-four finish today, it would become much harder for Madrid to lure Bale. He has a settled family life in England with a young baby and is one of the faces of BT Sport, who will show live Premier League games for the first time next term.​

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If Spurs do attempt to try and ‘bribe’ Bale with a new contract to spend an extra season in the Europa League, he is likely to want parity with the best players in the Premier League, Robin van Persie and Yaya Toure, who earn £220,000 a week.​

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For Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, today is about his team holding their nerve and completing a stunning end to the season.​

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Arsenal, seven points adrift of Tottenham after losing at White Hart Lane in March, are unbeaten in nine matches and Wenger said: ‘We know how to behave to win the games, so it’s about getting that certainty from our long run and bringing that into our next game. It’s as simple as that.’​

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Wenger is delighted that today’s match at Newcastle is of such significance to Arsenal — but means so little to Newcastle.​

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‘We have to focus on our qualities but I think it’s better for us that they are under no pressure,’ said the Frenchman. ‘The pressure is big, of course, but I always said the worst [challenge] in my job is to play games without any pressure.​

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‘Sometimes you think it would be nice to have a game with no pressure, but when you have one you think, ‘let’s get it back, it’s so boring’.​

‘We have what we wanted, so let’s just finish the job.’​

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Arsenal, who are set to complete the free transfer of France Under-21 forward Yaya Sanogo from Auxerre, will have striker Olivier Giroud available again following his three-match suspension, but midfielder Mikel Arteta is a major doubt for the match with a calf injury.​

 

[RichSpur58]

I'll decide whether its funny on August 31st.

 

[Dundalk_Spur]

I stopped at Daily Mail.

 

[YiddoInPoland]

That quote laden article really hit the nail on the head

 

[Danners9]

Did they call him an immigrant or asylum seeker anywhere? if not I am disappointed, their (already low) standards are slipping (further)

 

[ostrov]

It's so transparently pro-ass-anal, incredible.

 

[Flashspur]

the press Is still anti Spurs

 

[shelfmonkey]

'Arry's disgruntled hack bum chums just making sure that no enlightened spurs fan ever buys or bothers to read that arse rag ever again in the future of human civilisation!

 

[Original # 10]

Just plain WOW

 

[branchie]

British journalism at its finest ........

 

[3Dnata]

Great language. If there is any truth in it at all, by offering him an improved contract wee're "attempting to bribe" Bale.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

Yes, you could make it up. And they did.

 

[Joeyboey]

I'm calling bullshit!!!

 

[Mr Pink]

And the Mail on Sunday understands....fuck all by the looks of it.

 

[Blake Griffin]

personally i believe it's true and i couldn't blame him. if you're one of the best players in the world why stick at a europa league club whose aim is to finish 4th each season.

 

[Gb160]

personally i believe it's true and i couldn't blame him. if you're one of the best players in the world why stick at a europa league club whose aim is to finish 4th each season.

Maybe he's not a self centered little shit,and maybe he feels a debt of gratitude towards the club who made him into one of the best players in the world?

 

[Drexl]

personally i believe it's true and i couldn't blame him. if you're one of the best players in the world why stick at a europa league club whose aim is to finish 4th each season.

The Top 3 this season are just about the 3 richest clubs in the world, do share with us how you expect us to compete with the Top 3 when we have a 35k stadium

4th is the new 1st

 

[Blake Griffin]

Maybe he's not a self centered little shit,and maybe he feels a debt of gratitude towards the club who made him into one of the best players in the world?

he made himself into one of the best players in the world, the club merely gave him the platform to do it. i thought football(and every other sport/profession) was about competing at the top and winning things, i don't see how that's self-centered.

 

[Blake Griffin]

The Top 3 this season are just about the 3 richest clubs in the world, do share with us how you expect us to compete with the Top 3 when we have a 35k stadium

4th is the new 1st

that's not bale's problem is it? if you can't beat them, join them.

 

[Gb160]

that's not bale's problem is it? if you can't beat them, join them.

Does your outlook apply to fans as well ?