Player Watch: Gareth Bale - Retires

[spuradik]

Guess we now know what the wait is for:

 

[taidgh]

Guess we now know why the wait is for:

yikes. aren't these things usually funny?

 

[Jules77]

No it isnt. we had an oppurtunity to rain on liverpools parade but we didnt

oh god... wtf does it matter?!

 

[C0YS]

No it isnt. we had an oppurtunity to rain on liverpools parade but we didnt

I don't think Liverpool fans would feel they are being rained on. The matter of when is only a tiny tiny bit relevant in the media circus, and irrelevant to anything remotely about football.

 

[Finchyid]

I don't think Liverpool fans would feel they are being rained on. The matter of when is only a tiny tiny bit relevant in the media circus, and irrelevant to anything remotely about football.

Maybe but the commentary is so biased against us. Had we announced it all the news would have been about Bale not Thiago. I think the club have mised a trick

 

[C0YS]

Maybe but the commentary is so biased against us. Had we announced it all the news would have been about Bale not Thiago. I think the club have mised a trick

Mate, life gets easier when you stop caring about the media, who a lot are liverpool fans, and just enjoy what we do.

I think you might have had less tiago coverage but on the other hand you would also have less Bale coverage. Bale is a big deal, though I must say, Bale is a much bigger deal to us than it is for the rest of the footballing world. For example, in the Italian papers Bale is literally a footnote to a bigger article. Now once the deal is made it might get its own article. There would be a different reaction if it was Neymar or Messi, Bale's stock isn't that high. It's a nice Spurs story and one of the bigger moves of the season but not much more than that.

 

[Finchyid]

Mate, life gets easier when you stop caring about the media, who a lot are liverpool fans, and just enjoy what we do.

I think you might have had less tiago coverage but on the other hand you would also have less Bale coverage. Bale is a big deal, though I must say, Bale is a much bigger deal to us than it is for the rest of the footballing world. For example, in the Italian papers Bale is literally a footnote to a bigger article. Now once the deal is made it might get its own article. There would be a different reaction if it was Neymar or Messi, Bale's stock isn't that high. It's a nice Spurs story and one of the bigger moves of the season but not much more than that.

Dont agree, Levy has signed bale cos he knows thats going to add revenue. We have 500 pages of people losing their shit cos bale is back. What are we going to do....Buy shirts. Levy has done the maths. It may happen tomorrow but no one will care opportunity was lost

 

[robertgoulet]

You can now add Bale’s name to the back of jerseys on the club shop. Couldn’t do that 24 hrs ago.

 

[Trotter]

Dont agree, Levy has signed bale cos he knows thats going to add revenue. We have 500 pages of people losing their shit cos bale is back. What are we going to do....Buy shirts. Levy has done the maths. It may happen tomorrow but no one will care opportunity was lost

Our club sells 800k shirts approximately per annum.
Even if you add another 100k to that due to the Bale effect, that is only maximum of £1 million extra revenue we would earn in the royalties (kit manufacturer takes the bulk, they pay us an annual fee for the deal) which would cover a month of wages.
We are not covering his costs by selling kits.

 

[gibbospurs]

Dont agree, Levy has signed bale cos he knows thats going to add revenue. We have 500 pages of people losing their shit cos bale is back. What are we going to do....Buy shirts. Levy has done the maths. It may happen tomorrow but no one will care opportunity was lost

What?? He’s signing him to win football games ffs. He’s a legend. The revenue helps but as a club if we drop down and out of the top 4 race we will be finished for quite some time as everyone else is spending. Put up or shut up is the saying I believe.

 

[RikkiRocket]

Our club sells 800k shirts approximately per annum.
Even if you add another 100k to that due to the Bale effect, that is only maximum of £1 million extra revenue we would earn in the royalties (kit manufacturer takes the bulk, they pay us an annual fee for the deal) which would cover a month of wages.
We are not covering his costs by selling kits.

However you can buy a Bale wig. Which is great for both emulating your hero AND the rapidly approaching Halloween.

 

[JCRD]

Our club sells 800k shirts approximately per annum.
Even if you add another 100k to that due to the Bale effect, that is only maximum of £1 million extra revenue we would earn in the royalties (kit manufacturer takes the bulk, they pay us an annual fee for the deal) which would cover a month of wages.
We are not covering his costs by selling kits.

I think each shirt sold gets the club around £7 of revenue the rest goes elsewhere so your example sounds about right.

However signing Bale isnt just a football thing, there is a huge commercial aspect to it. It may not necessarily translate into revenue from the outset but it boosts our brand and therefore increases the perception which then turns into added goodwill... im trying to be a bit financie here and look intelligent and i could be totally wrong but think sometimes transfers are more than just footballing reasons.

This however is Bale, he is a huge superstar in footballing terms regardless of how the last year and a bit has gone. There is a romanticism in this transfer I guess and i think that has overpowered the commercial aspect obviously.

 

[pedrodelawasp]

Alright, it’s 02:39am and I’ve just said good night to my good mates at the end of a zoom-based booze-up: do we know what number the Welsh Wizard will be wearing yet? Gonna order about five dozen XL off Wish.com the minute I know!

 

[pedrodelawasp]

Have any tabloids said Alex Morgan looks even vaguely like Kate Middleton yet, which would obviously skew tabloid attention on Tottenham demonstrating media bias, etc, etc, etc?

P.S. I apologise for this post and the one immediately preceding it... Peter is on the beers

 

[EQP]

Before Son and Dele, there was Bale and Adebayor. The OG's with the handshakes.

 

[carpediem1906]

Getting to 500 pages

 

[Konnor]

Our club sells 800k shirts approximately per annum.
Even if you add another 100k to that due to the Bale effect, that is only maximum of £1 million extra revenue we would earn in the royalties (kit manufacturer takes the bulk, they pay us an annual fee for the deal) which would cover a month of wages.
We are not covering his costs by selling kits.

Which means more money when the next deal is to be negotiated.

Money wont be made back straight away no, but its the numbers that the kit manufacturers want to see and in the long run, will end up more lucrative for us.

 

[robertgoulet]

So 500 is the magic number then?

 

[yankspurs]

So 500 is the magic number then?

No because the UK will get up and people will add 10 pages before this is announced.

 

[jpascavitz]

What are your realistic expectations for a successful season for GB? I'd say 25 starts and somewhere around 10-15 goals with 7-10 assists would be great. If he got 20 goals, I'd be over the moon