Gareth Bale (Rumour to Deal Done)

[$hoguN]

We should let them make whatever offer they like, just to generate a starting point for next year if he has another season like this one. It is just proper negotiation strategy. Speaking about a price is just valuing an asset not agreeing to sell it- not to say we would not sell if the offers get properly stupid and pay off most of the Stadium without undertaking debt...which is why the club cannot take the Modric 2011 stance and speak in absolutes.

Selling Bale won't mean we can build the stadium with barely any debt, because we will lose out on millions in Sponsorship.

 

[trasores]

selling bale will earn us around £65 million (after agents fees and loyalty payments to the player) - thats about the same as the new TV money per year.

Gareth bale is the face of BT sport and of NBC's new EPL coverage - to my knowledge neither of those show la liga, and he is on the cover of Fifa14. Thats 3 new contracts that he has signed and a lot of indirect sponsorship and awareness brought to our club with the potential to increase revenue and fanbase (especially in the USA).

ive got a bad feeling about this.

PS why doesnt FFP apply to real madrid, PSG, Man city or monaco

 

[$hoguN]

selling bale will earn us around £65 million (after agents fees and loyalty payments to the player) - thats about the same as the new TV money per year.

Gareth bale is the face of BT sport and of NBC's new EPL coverage - to my knowledge neither of those show la liga, and he is on the cover of Fifa14. Thats 3 new contracts that he has signed and a lot of indirect sponsorship and awareness brought to our club with the potential to increase revenue and fanbase (especially in the USA).

ive got a bad feeling about this.

PS why doesnt FFP apply to real madrid, PSG, Man city or monaco

It does, just not PL FFP.

 

[jambreck]

selling bale will earn us around £65 million (after agents fees and loyalty payments to the player) - thats about the same as the new TV money per year.

Gareth bale is the face of BT sport and of NBC's new EPL coverage - to my knowledge neither of those show la liga, and he is on the cover of Fifa14. Thats 3 new contracts that he has signed and a lot of indirect sponsorship and awareness brought to our club with the potential to increase revenue and fanbase (especially in the USA).

ive got a bad feeling about this.

PS why doesnt FFP apply to real madrid, PSG, Man city or monaco

Why?

Everything else you've mentioned in your post is a compelling reason why Spurs absolutely would not sell him now.

 

[big_bear_jol]

selling bale will earn us around £65 million (after agents fees and loyalty payments to the player) - thats about the same as the new TV money per year.

Gareth bale is the face of BT sport and of NBC's new EPL coverage - to my knowledge neither of those show la liga, and he is on the cover of Fifa14. Thats 3 new contracts that he has signed and a lot of indirect sponsorship and awareness brought to our club with the potential to increase revenue and fanbase (especially in the USA).

ive got a bad feeling about this.

PS why doesnt FFP apply to real madrid, PSG, Man city or monaco

FFP don't really mean anything to the richest clubs. I'm no financial expert but surely they will just move money about from different accounts and revenue funds. They will find a loophole somehow.

 

[Syn_13]

Real pretty much exist above the law in Spain anyway. Apparently debts don't apply to them...

 

[ginger]

selling bale will earn us around £65 million (after agents fees and loyalty payments to the player) - thats about the same as the new TV money per year.

Gareth bale is the face of BT sport and of NBC's new EPL coverage - to my knowledge neither of those show la liga, and he is on the cover of Fifa14. Thats 3 new contracts that he has signed and a lot of indirect sponsorship and awareness brought to our club with the potential to increase revenue and fanbase (especially in the USA).

ive got a bad feeling about this.

PS why doesnt FFP apply to real madrid, PSG, Man city or monaco

I doubt he/his agent would get more than 3-4m in loyalty payments - he is only on 90k/week , and southampton may get 2% solidarity payments. We would net out at well over £100m from any plausible sale imo

 

[yawa]

Why?

Everything else you've mentioned in your post is a compelling reason why Spurs absolutely would not sell him now.

I was completely confused with the train of thought as well.

 

[$hoguN]

FFP don't really mean anything to the richest clubs. I'm no financial expert but surely they will just move money about from different accounts and revenue funds. They will find a loophole somehow.

The Napoli chairman tried to cockily outline how to get around FFP at a press conference but it didn't sound like he knew what he was talking about. The problem for UEFA is that it doesn't exist just for 5-10 big clubs, it exists for them all, so if a few clubs appear to flaunt the rules, UEFA may be forced into acting by the members who will threaten to leave otherwise.

 

[trasores]

It does, just not PL FFP.

real are in masses of debt and had relied on state handouts (even when the country is in financial crisis!)

they sold their training ground for a vastly overpriced sum to the local council and were allowed to use it rent free.

 

[trasores]

Why?

Everything else you've mentioned in your post is a compelling reason why Spurs absolutely would not sell him now.

just been told something and it made me feel sick.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

just been told something and it made me feel sick.

What?

 

[bubble07]

if bale was to go we would have gone all out for bernard, lamela, soldado but we haven't/didn't

 

[Ribble]

I don't regard stuff like 'we're counting on him to stay' as a categorical denial that he could leave, not at all.

How about something like

"He's not for sale at any price. No we haven't had any conversations. It's not irritating, I think it is part of when the market opens. It's normal that there is speculation everywhere,"

 

[Ghost Hardware]

if bale was to go we would have gone all out for bernard, lamela, soldado but we haven't/didn't

We would have to go all out for Lamela, hes is the closest we could get as a replacement. We should get Bernard regardless.

 

[jambreck]

just been told something and it made me feel sick.

Told what?

By whom?

 

[Rout-Ledge]

How about something like

"He's not for sale at any price. No we haven't had any conversations. It's not irritating, I think it is part of when the market opens. It's normal that there is speculation everywhere,"

Nice, hadn't seen that one. Funny how stuff like that doesn't get picked up by the media in a big way. That sort of quote should've resulted in a top story on the BBC Football homepage.

Let's hope Levy and AVB are on the same page. If they aren't, we may have bigger problems than Bale leaving for Madrid.

 

[bubble07]

We would have to go all out for Lamela, hes is the closest we could get as a replacement. We should get Bernard regardless.

exactly. Offer Roma a stupid amount like 30 to 35m

 

[sam1972]

The reason Levy spoke about Modric is because he put in a transfer request. Bale hasn't done this therefore no need to comment.

 

[Ribble]

The reason Levy spoke about Modric is because he put in a transfer request. Bale hasn't done this therefore no need to comment.

Also Modric dragged Levy into it with the "gentleman's agreement" thing.