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In all seriousness it's veeeeeeery interesting how quiet everything to do with Saliba has gone in the last couple of days.
Tottenham are willing to pay Real Madrid£54m for former forward Gareth Bale, 30, but Spurs have told the Spanish giants they would not be able to afford the Wales international's reported £600,000-a-week wages. (Marca, via Express)
As he used to do with us lest we forget
As did, Glenn, Jurgen and Ledley. We're not thinking of re-signing them?
Move on.
Wouldn't take him at any price.Don’t be silly
You’ll be saying why not Greavesie next
Bale still capable and probably at his peak
It’s all about money now
Is £600,000 per week the figure an English club would have to stump up to equal his current net wage?
Tottenham are willing to pay Real Madrid£54m for former forward Gareth Bale, 30, but Spurs have told the Spanish giants they would not be able to afford the Wales international's reported £600,000-a-week wages. (Marca, via Express)
Bale improves us big time.
He is the quality of player we are unable to sign and therefore don't see it happening unfortunately.
Seems like a pretty humble lad with a massive twat of an agent pulling the strings.
So far it's worked, and he has made an absolute fortune and won everything he could have dreamed of.
The lad still has at least 3-4 good seasons left in him. For 60mil and 300k per week - sound like a great marquee signing with a lot of commercial value. Expect it would be a huge boost for the dressing room too.
If the problem is he left us - sorry but you should probably get over that.
If the problem is his injury record - I would expect 30-40 games a season from him. Thats good for us.
If the problem is the salary - 300k isnt that bad compared with some players on bigger money. It would be a serious statement of intent.
If the problem is his age/resale - why? Every player eventually has a club that they either retire at or move on for negligible fees relatively.
Am I not right in thinking we all want us to be competing at the level of PSG, Utd, City, Madrid, Barca, Juva both financially and on the field? Rather us sign youngsters and convert them to world class and hope they 'dont do a Bale' on us? To be on that level we need to sign world class players. We aint getting close to signing anyone else near his level. Fuck off if you want to tell me that Lo Celso bloke is anywhere near Bales standards.
Personally I would love us to dominate world football with 100% academy products. Next best is to buy youngsters cheap and develop them into world class footballers. Reality is that simply wont happen unfortunately. Nor will Bale - but to suggest re signing him wouldn't be a huge benefit to the club seems ludicrous to me.
I was just on about the age thing. They're both 30 (now), and yet you were talking about Bale like he's ready for the knackers yard!How can you possibly compare that to a discussion concerning forking out £50m to bring an ex player back into the squad...??Whether or not I'm happy with Sissoko in the team has fuck all to do with if I think we should bring Bale back. Two entirely different topics...so please don't suppose anything.
Just on about Bale's age baz.I am