If Bale had resumed full training and gone on a pre season tour and then left, I'm sure people would see that as a worse snub. As soon as a world record offer was on the radar we knew he'd leave. He never said anything negative about us in the press either. What should he have done?
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Done his job. I'd have him back in a heartbeat but let's not forget.
Deals collapse all the time. If that one had, then what? He should have trained, he should have done what he normally would. Simple professionalism.
You’re making the assumption that the club wanted to have their world record transfer fee asset running around in needless training half a world away waiting for a hamstring to pop and blow the whole thing up.
The most feasible assumption is that the club floated the injury in case the negotiations went south there would be an excuse why Bale wasn’t with the team, but the club wanted him wrapped in cotton and not risking blowing up such a monumental deal. The club had zero motive to have him running about training with a squad they had no intention of him playing a match with.
Either way, missing a few training sessions in route to an inevitable world record transfer is hardly Judas stuff. It’s embarrassing the hate that he gets from some quarters, especially when some continue to suck off Modric despite the fact that he was 1000x worse and went on legitimate strike to attempt to force a transfer to Chavs that the club did not want.
That's not how clubs work. As long as you are fit and a player for Spurs and not banished from the training ground for disciplinary reasons you are expected to do your job. Which the majority of the time, is train.
As I said, deals collapse all the time. Especially with Levy. And trust me, if what you say were true, we'd have heard it from Harry Redknapp or Tim Sherwood by now.
No one is comparing him to Judas.
Maybe, but the question becomes when did the bid come in, how did it get that large, and when Bale quit on us. It wasn't likely that Madrid just walked in the door and said "Hey, how about we give you 100MM Euros for Bale?", and then Levy sat on it to save face.
Chances are that they had already spoke to Bale and he signaled some intention to go, Madrid knew and put in a much lower bid, Spurs knew at some point either directly or indirectly that Bale wanted to go and this could turn bad for all, and then Levy played the game to keep jacking up the transfer fee until we were satisfied and made it hurt a little for them.
It's unfair to simplify everything and to say that it was all Bale quitting or Levy capitulating immediately on a big offer. It was some combination of a lot of different factors.
I wouldn't call him a traitor but I don't think that we have to like what happened either. I understand why he left, why we took the money, and why Madrid wanted him. That being said, I do hold it against him that he stopped playing for us at the end and some of his other actions that lead to it happening when it did.
Honestly, more than anything both sides have changed a lot since that time, and it just doesn't feel like we are moving forward by bringing him back. It'd be like getting back together with a high school girlfriend that was a step up over you, after she just got a divorce from some rich, good looking guy and now you maybe have a chance again. It's just time to move on...
Who went to Man United....
Yet we had the audacity to present him as a hero after the final game at WHL
At least Gareth had the decency to move abroad. Seeing him move to United would have been unstomachable
Got wet spam written all over it
It's damned well obvious to anyone with a shred of common sense that this is exactly how it played out.
I'm just glad it's come from you because if it was posted by me I'd be labelled some kind of conspiracy theorist idiot.
To think Levy ever had any intention of turning down 85million bucks in 2013 don't even warrent an argument.
Gareth Bale. Tottenham Hotspur legend
edit: even the oppo player at bottom left can't help himself cheering such a fantastic goal
And absolutely is in the PL era, he was mesmerising in the two seasons he was here. His move was a simply a mechanic of the modern game - we take no issue when players do this to come to us but call fowl when ours do it to us. You can’t have it both ways.
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RMC Sport are saying we are interested in Florian Thauvin, though they claim he wants to stay at Marseille.
We're coming for that 4-3-3 formation.
Probably all part of the plan, but watching other clubs get big deals done while it's gone all quiet on our end is fucking aggravating.
It's damned well obvious to anyone with a shred of common sense that this is exactly how it played out.
I'm just glad it's come from you because if it was posted by me I'd be labelled some kind of conspiracy theorist idiot.
To think Levy ever had any intention of turning down 85million bucks in 2013 don't even warrent an argument.
Gareth Bale. Tottenham Hotspur legend
edit: even the oppo player at bottom left can't help himself cheering such a fantastic goal
I was in the box right above the goal for that. Good times
Oh I bloody hope so. They would love to think they had us over on a transfer...even if it is an out of shape bloke who looked bang average in a shit Stoke team.
Seven of the starting eleven are pretty much nailed on, right?
The rest are just spoilers
or filling in the blanks lol!
CF
Kane
LWF ----------------- RWF
Dele ------------------ Son
AM
Eriksen
CM ------------ CM
LB - ------------------------------ - RB
RCB----------LCB
Vertonghen -Sanchez
GK
Lloris
Kane
LWF ----------------- RWF
Dele ------------------ Son
AM
Eriksen
CM ------------ CM
LB - ------------------------------ - RB
RCB----------LCB
Vertonghen -Sanchez
GK
Lloris
The rest are just spoilers
2016/17 ~ 2017/18 seasons
Heung-Min Son 39 goals / 21 assists
Dele Alli 36 goals / 30 assists
Christian Eriksen 26 goals / 36 assists
Heung-Min Son 39 goals / 21 assists
Dele Alli 36 goals / 30 assists
Christian Eriksen 26 goals / 36 assists
or filling in the blanks lol!
“I turned down €110m for Milinkovic-Savic on August 29 [2017], so I don’t know how much he is worth now, but I can tell you €100m isn’t enough,” said Lazio President Claudio Lotito
“I get angry when I read people call Lazio a supermarket. I’ve never put anyone up for sale. In the past they wouldn’t even knock on the door, clubs would just come and take, but now they have to ask for permission.”
Lotito: 'Rejected €110m for Milinkovic' | Football Italia
Business as usual.... Will just have to smuggle a couple of CMs in next time I do a major ciggy haul.
I got this.
It could seem like you're gonna spend the transfer window on the loo
“The fact he hasn't turned up isn't the correct behaviour,' Villas-Boas said.' But maybe he is trying to put pressure on. It is now Up to the club to decide if that is a fineable offence.
'I gave him the weekend off, Monday was a team day and he is in the middle of a move Real Madrid.”
Please god no. The Newcastle guy, right?