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Player Watch: Gareth Bale - Retires

Matthew

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Bale is NOT done yet. A couple of slight goalpost shifts today as far as payment structures are concerned but nothing to worry about. With a deal this size and complex it is not unexpected. Everyone involved wants this to happen and are all working to make it so.

And here we go!.....
 

0-Tibsy-0

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Stoof

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Bale is NOT done yet. A couple of slight goalpost shifts today as far as payment structures are concerned but nothing to worry about. With a deal this size and complex it is not unexpected. Everyone involved wants this to happen and are all working to make it so.
Lads - this is the business world.

I drafted a set of documents based on an agreed set of heads of terms and sent them out on Monday. I got them back with a load of amends this morning.

None of those points are dealbreakers - and the deal will still happen. But there are commercial points for the principals to discuss and agree on.

This isn’t any different to that.
 

doctor stefan Freud

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Bale is NOT done yet. A couple of slight goalpost shifts today as far as payment structures are concerned but nothing to worry about. With a deal this size and complex it is not unexpected. Everyone involved wants this to happen and are all working to make it so.
Makes sense. A Spurs mate who doesn’t read this website refuses to believe media reports that Bale is signing, saying he’s been hurt too many times in the past over transfers. He’d explode if he was on this site but the signs are positive
 

spursfan77

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If anyone thought this was going to be straight forward from now on in, with the clubs involved, then I’m surprised. So much money is involved, it isn’t done until it’s done.
 

stormfly

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Bale is NOT done yet. A couple of slight goalpost shifts today as far as payment structures are concerned but nothing to worry about. With a deal this size and complex it is not unexpected. Everyone involved wants this to happen and are all working to make it so.
These are the only two words I’m deciding to read. Yes!
 

PCozzie

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This is happening. This isn't a structural problem, it's a debate over the paint colour.*

* Other analogies available on request.
 

Matthew

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What do you mean "here we go"?

Tbh I wouldn't have even bothered posting this today had it not been for others saying it was done.

It's that insignificant imo.

was a play on frabrizios “here we go” transfer comment .... didn’t mean to cause Offence ??
 

BringBack_leGin

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What do you mean "here we go"?

Tbh I wouldn't have even bothered posting this today had it not been for others saying it was done.

It's that insignificant imo.
Told you!

Fwiw, and maybe this is just a self defence mechanism, I’d have been utterly amazed if if this deal had gone from breaking publicly to completion in just a day. Frankly I’m amazed we kept it quiet until the deal was so far along that the likes of Barnett have been making pretty strong statements about its likelihood considering the magnitude of the transfer and the global interest it brings. Look at the Utd situation with Sancho and Chelsea with Havertz. Those are dragging or dragged for literally months after breaking publicly because the media caught wind almost immediately.

We appear to have kept it shtum until most of the major details were already either agreed or at least there was a common mindset about what the end result should look like. I’m just glad that we’re only going to have a few days of this tension rather than a month.
 

SpartanSpur

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To be honest Trix still comes across as confident so no worries there. If anything the fact there is some goalposts and things are not on the ropes then that's another good sign.
 
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