Gareth Bale
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Dougal
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That would rely on 3 things.
1.By ‘apparently’, do you mean you’ve heard this?
2. From where?
3. By asking SC, do you think the posters on SC’s opinions will be more accurate than your source?*
*If yes then it probably invalidates the post anyway.
Indisguise
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Financially, it's a ridiculous move. See Walkerboy's post above yours.
tiger666
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What do you mean by "offloading on a free"? Offering him out for zero transfer fee? There's still only a handful of clubs that could meet his wage demands.
RikkiRocket
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T’Pau.
WalkerboyUK
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Would favour a Chinese club though - no tax to pay on the transfer fee.
Means they can stump it all on wages.
Matthew Wyatt
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Is anyone here a friend of Gareth Bale who speaks Spanish? Because that's the only way you'd know what efforts he's taken to learn the language and how fluent he is. I don't know Gareth but my hunch is he does speak Spanish but is uncomfortable doing so in public.
Don't forget that for years our manager rarely if ever spoke English in public but the consensus here is that he'd learnt it and likely spoke English to his players and staff, to Levy and also to people he'd encounter in day-to-day life away from the media, like shop assistants, footy folk, his car mechanic, the postman, his neighbours, and so on. He was uncomfortable, maybe shy, wary of being misunderstood and having his words twisted by the press, and perhaps it was tactical or maybe he just couldn't be arsed with humouring people who had no interest in him as a person but in what he could do for them -- give them a story, status by association, money, an object of ridicule, or whatever.
I suspect Bale and Poch's linguistic abilities, the contexts in which they demonstrate them and the amount they choose to reveal are broadly similar, as are their motivations in this regard, and perhaps too are their personal comfort levels in using their second languages when, as the perfectionists they undoubtedly are, they've felt like beginners with a lot of room for improvement.
You can't use Spanish as a stick to beat Bale with.
Don't forget that for years our manager rarely if ever spoke English in public but the consensus here is that he'd learnt it and likely spoke English to his players and staff, to Levy and also to people he'd encounter in day-to-day life away from the media, like shop assistants, footy folk, his car mechanic, the postman, his neighbours, and so on. He was uncomfortable, maybe shy, wary of being misunderstood and having his words twisted by the press, and perhaps it was tactical or maybe he just couldn't be arsed with humouring people who had no interest in him as a person but in what he could do for them -- give them a story, status by association, money, an object of ridicule, or whatever.
I suspect Bale and Poch's linguistic abilities, the contexts in which they demonstrate them and the amount they choose to reveal are broadly similar, as are their motivations in this regard, and perhaps too are their personal comfort levels in using their second languages when, as the perfectionists they undoubtedly are, they've felt like beginners with a lot of room for improvement.
You can't use Spanish as a stick to beat Bale with.
Living Legend Colm G
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But you can beat him with a Pinata stick.....cos it's Spanish.....
That's shit even by my low standards.
Not with Aurier at right back.
Well yeah but that 4th player there is one massively, unlikely occurrence
Philly Yid
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Instead of 600k/week think he'd take having the stadium named after him? Gareth Bale Stadium has a ring to it. Just as realistic as any other proposal to land him in a Spurs shirt. 
Real Madrid are on the hook for Bale's wages for the next 3 years. That is a cost of £100m.
Nobody outside of China is going to match that, so therefore he has no transfer value. Even the Chinese won't pay a transfer fee, but may match (or exceed) his current wages.
A transfer fee is compensation to the selling club for the loss of the player over the remaining time on his contract. Madrid want him gone and there are no takers in Europe. So Real Madrid only have one option, to offload him to any club that is willing to offer Bale as much money as possible and then Madrid either have to let him go for nothing, or subsidise his wages for the next 3 years if there is a shortfall.
On top of that, Bale has to agree to go to whichever club agrees this deal. That could well be the biggest sticking point.
In short, Madrid are in a very, very weak position.
A bit like Man U are in with Sanchez and that mob down the road are with Ozil.
Nobody outside of China is going to match that, so therefore he has no transfer value. Even the Chinese won't pay a transfer fee, but may match (or exceed) his current wages.
A transfer fee is compensation to the selling club for the loss of the player over the remaining time on his contract. Madrid want him gone and there are no takers in Europe. So Real Madrid only have one option, to offload him to any club that is willing to offer Bale as much money as possible and then Madrid either have to let him go for nothing, or subsidise his wages for the next 3 years if there is a shortfall.
On top of that, Bale has to agree to go to whichever club agrees this deal. That could well be the biggest sticking point.
In short, Madrid are in a very, very weak position.
A bit like Man U are in with Sanchez and that mob down the road are with Ozil.
Amortisation doesn't work like that. It's an accounting method, not a cash-flow generator. Yes, it frees up wages, but it doesn't help you pay for a player unless the selling club is being paid nothing up front and taking annual payments in arrears. Which I somehow doubt Levy would ever accept.
Yiddo100
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Saw that earlier, would’ve thought it would be everywhere if that’s today
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The guy waving at the camera - that hand is webbed, right? Is that actually Bale? What happened to his nose?
hughy
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That video is from March 2018.
JKendall13
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Fucking hell, whatever he does I hope he does it quickly. Not sure how much more I can tolerate of this thread.
rossdapep
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Ok, thanks. I'll delete it.
LukaMotion
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That's clearly Kenneth McEvoy and we've just sealed the swindle of the century.
*Levy on the phone to Jiangsu, in his thickest spanish accent*
"Yes, ok you give us £40million and we'll get Gareth on a plane tonight. Wages? He says he'll play for free, very generous of him. You're getting a real world class player, and for only £60 million. Pleasure doing business with you, of course. I'm sure he's going to become a legend for your club, absolutely worthy of the £80million fee. Ok, bye bye."
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