Gareth Bale

[Rocksuperstar]

I think anyone seriously interested is turned off by 600 grand a week.

But that's what I mean - has anyone actually had the opportunity to offer him a contract yet for, say, £300k and has he turned it down? As far as I'm aware Bale hasn't said he wouldn't play for less than he currently gets, it's RM who are stopping anyone offering him... well, anything.

Bale hasn't said a single word on what wages he'd accept, the world has just assumed that he's going to demand the same or higher when, in reality, that might not be possible.

Either way, RM HAVE said they'll pay that so while he's on a guarantee he doesn't need to push for it. If RM accepted an offer for him then he would have to decide but until someone is allowed to make him an offer none of us have any idea what wages he would settle for.

 

[TropicalYid]

RM dont want him. Bale dont want a pay cut.
Hes 30 years old now. Still quality, but cant see anyone offering big money, big wages and long contract for him at this stage.
Would love to see him back at spurs though.

 

[rawhide]

Have to admire the way you managed to use SC posters and Einstein in the same sentence.

 

[Spartan Spurs]

RM want Bale out & off their books.

That money is needed to revamp their squad & him not leaving is going to handicap them.

It's only a matter of time before that (insert appropriate adjective here) club ramps up their negative propaganda campaign against Bale.
Unfortunately, that (_____) club will make him out as the villain & their entitled fanbase will turn on him even more.

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

I don't know why the media is assuming he wants the wages he is currently on at a new club, I personally think he just wants to milk Madrid for every penny he can, and rightly so. They offered that contract and are legally obliged to stick to the terms, regardless of how badly they want to get rid of him. Can't have your cake and eat it too.

If he manages to get a decent wedge out of them and move on I highly doubt he will be demanding a huge wage from his new club. Just doesn't seem like the mercenary type to me. Obviously the Spanish media will spin this in the opposite direction, but I don't think that he would want the pay check from Madrid to leave AND the same wage at his new club.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

I don't know why the media is assuming he wants the wages he is currently on at a new club, I personally think he just wants to milk Madrid for every penny he can, and rightly so. They offered that contract and are legally obliged to stick to the terms, regardless of how badly they want to get rid of him. Can't have your cake and eat it too.

If he manages to get a decent wedge out of them and move on I highly doubt he will be demanding a huge wage from his new club. Just doesn't seem like the mercenary type to me. Obviously the Spanish media will spin this in the opposite direction, but I don't think that he would want the pay check from Madrid to leave AND the same wage at his new club.

Same - if RM would let a club offer him a contract then maybe we'd find out he's happy to take a significant cut but it's the club who are preventing that from happening from what I can gather.

I've seen no statements from Gareth or his agent saying he won't play for less but until RM let someone make him an offer we have no idea what HIS choice will be.

I'm guessing they've priced him too high and have pushed away any clubs who have enquired so far. As the window gets shorter I expect they'll knock a few million off of his price tag THEN we might find out he's expecting the same wages once a team gets to speak to him.

Wages and transfer fee are two entirely separate issues and I think while we keep talking about loan moves we have to talk about them as a pair. If he was sold outright then we have a whole second round over the wages.

 

[Styopa]

According to reports Bale’s salary is 15 million Euros, or roughly 13.5 million GBP. In one year alone he is paid about the same as the person on the average UK salary would be paid in 465 years. I fully understand him wanting to hold Real Madrid to account over his contract. But let’s have more respect for all those struggling out there than making flippant comments about Bale staying on to ‘set his family up for life’.

 

[Spursmad321]

Spot on and this is the reason why the link will never go away until he leaves Madrid. There is potentially a creative deal to be done and Levy will certainly be keeping tabs on it.

Only if Poch wants him in my opinion.

 

[Indisguise]

According to reports Bale’s salary is 15 million Euros, or roughly 13.5 million GBP. In one year alone he is paid about the same as the person on the average UK salary would be paid in 465 years. I fully understand him wanting to hold Real Madrid to account over his contract. But let’s have more respect for all those struggling out there than making flippant comments about Bale staying on to ‘set his family up for life’.

Not sure I agree with your calculations but I heartily agree with your sentiments! ?

 

[DiscoD1882]

I’m just surprised no one has thrown a pigs head at him yet?

 

[freeeki]

I’m delighted that the trend of rich clubs overpaying their players is finally coming back to bite them on the arse tbh.

Real Madrid, Man Utd and Arsenal have all had their transfer windows scuppered by the presence of vastly-overpaid players with waning sell-on values on their books.

This hasn’t stopped RM spending big, but is certainly stopping them spend how they’d like to, while the likes of Sanchez and Ozil are really putting a spanner in the works for United and Arsenal respectively.

About time.

 

[Grey Fox]

Just putting it out there, he has earned 3m+ in last 6 weeks this has been going on

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Just putting it out there, he has earned 3m+ in last 6 weeks this has been going on

The dumb twatters

 

[yiddopaul]

RM. Straight swap. We have Bale, you get Eriksen. We give Bale big signing on fee to compensate his loss in salary.

 

[shelfmonkey]

didnt think this was worthy of the itk thread since barnett is clearly more itk on this, but ghostofarmo on bale:
Bale itk, absolute garbage..we dont want him and he doesnt want to come.

I wonder if there was a spike in suicides yesterday? Is anyone on here missing?!!

 

[phil]

According to reports Bale’s salary is 15 million Euros, or roughly 13.5 million GBP. In one year alone he is paid about the same as the person on the average UK salary would be paid in 465 years. I fully understand him wanting to hold Real Madrid to account over his contract. But let’s have more respect for all those struggling out there than making flippant comments about Bale staying on to ‘set his family up for life’.

His salary is reported to be 30m euros, 17m AFTER tax

 

[NYSpur]

Conflicting reports in the same paper/fanzine. Probably airing internal politics. What a mental club they are.

This kind of goes without saying. We will pay whatever the asking price is at the time under that set of circumstances which isn't what they are right now.

 

[nailsy]

I personally find the idea Bale will happily just collect his vast wages whilst barely playing unlikely. He may have had injury problems, but he’s only just turned 30 and is still the main man for his country.

He is of course entitled to hold Madrid to their ridiculous contract, but I expect his stance is more a negotiating tactic to allow him to leave whilst taking as little cut in his wages as possible.

Unless Zidane has a complete change of heart I expect him to end up somewhere else next season, just not us unfortunately.

I'm still not convinced that Bale will be completely frozen out if he stays. I think that he's accepted that he'll be a squad option rather than a starting player, but he may well believe that he can force his way back into the first team next season. People might turn their nose up at him settling for being a squad player, but every good side needs good players on the bench. Saying that I'm sure if the right offer came along he'd move, but there probably aren't many teams that could tempt him.

Have to admire the way you managed to use SC posters and Einstein in the same sentence.

I think A&C was talking about the dog in Back to the future.

 

[MTB]

This Bale chap has 18 million twitter followers, none of our players come even close. Harry Kane has 2.6. Tottenhams official account has 3.5.
Sign Bale and it could be huge commercially.
I reckon there will be interest in the near future, and enquires will be made before the window closes. And what was proposed in the Marca papers this week of Real contributing to his wage could prove to be very enticing for a number of clubs. I for one, hope we get in there too, both for football reasons and for further putting us on the map globally.

 

[biscuit]

Bleddy hell! Eight years to make your first post. Welcome aboard!