Gareth Bale

[sausage]

Is that what he doing? Hiding that hes going bald? For christ sake....
Ive been wondering why on earth he (or anybody) would want a hairdo like that.

It would seem so

 

[Tucker]

He’s got enough money for a hair transplant. Why not just do what Eriksen did.

 

[RikkiRocket]

He’s got enough money for a hair transplant. Why not just do what Eriksen did.

Sow a small loofer on his head??

 

[MTB]

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Here is an update to my post in this Bale thread on 15th May 2019 (page 9, post #178).

Link

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?threads/gareth-bale.136353/page-9#post-6341439

I wrote the following back then:

“So there is a stand-off between Madrid and Bale with Daniel Levy lurking in the wings. Netflix should produce the box set. High stakes poker and soap opera combined. Nobody, but nobody, is simply going to bale Madrid out (pun intended).”
I added at the end:

It’s all about a 3-way split of £600k per week; what pay cut would the player accept and then how much RM and the other (buying) club pay each. The question is will our chairman be prepared to shell out what’s left of Bale’s annual wages after RM and the player have reached a compromise?”

To clarify what I was saying back then, there’s no question of a transfer fee. Never has been. If I take a huge financial liability off your hands (£90 million or so over three years) I don’t pay you for the pleasure of helping you out. You pay me. To illustrate the point, simply as an example;

Gareth Bale, Real Madrid and Spurs agree to an equal 3-way split to try and resolve the situation. So Gareth accepts a compromise 1/3 cut in his salary to ‘only’ £60 million over 3 years. Real Madrid pays ½ of that £60 million and Spurs pay the other ½ of the £60 million (call that £200k per week and a free signing). Now, there are several ways this could be constructed but an equal 3-way split would be the net result. I’m not saying that’s what everybody would agree to. If the split was 10% from Bale, 40% from RM and 50% from Spurs, the figures would change but the basic principle would be the same.

We are now nearing the end game of this box-set saga.

To update, let’s boil it down to four possible scenarios:

1. Bale stays at RM on £30m p.a., sits on the bench and plays golf

2. Bale takes his young family to China and sees out his playing days there (or with the possible twist he later moves to Europe or USA)

3. Bale stays in mainland Europe, probably Bayern or PSG.

4. Bale returns to the PL, probably United or Spurs.

I suspect (with some evidence but no proof) that Bale’s agent and our chairman are “on the same page” if not exactly in cahoots. This is all playing out exactly as they both knew it would several months ago. RM’s position gets sillier and more desperate by the day. RM have finally come to terms with a (heavily) subsidized loan deal being the only way they can shift GB at some kind of acceptable cost. Which is exactly why Barnett knocked that idea on its head yesterday. A loan deal means GB would still ‘belong’ to RM. But he wants ‘out’. If that costs RM even more, why should Bale and Barnett make things easy? They hold, literally, all the legal cards in this game of poker, which is why RM are using every other nasty tactic they can think of.

1. Bale has to be “prepared to stay” at RM. That’s just his legal position and contractual right. To actually say otherwise he’d be shooting himself in the foot. But people and pundits who take the whole ‘play golf’ stance seriously need to get out more.

2. Bale has to be prepared to consider China. Legally, he’s fulfilling his obligation to Madrid to look at all the options.

3. Bale has to be prepared to consider Bayern and PSG. He’s probably giving them serious consideration. But does he want to uproot to another culture, another foreign language, and play in loads of one-sided matches? I don’t see either as his preferred destination. I’m not sure either club wants him or to help Madrid out.

4. Bale would, I’m sure, consider United. Who wouldn’t? But they’re not the attraction they once were and are they in for him? Manchester isn’t Germany or France but it isn’t London either.

IMO, Bale’s preference is London and Spurs. And that’s a shit-show for RM. Because they’d probably rather deal with Satan, or Boris Johnson, than Daniel Levy. They know this time they’re going to be handed their cojones on a plate. Eriksen and Ceballos were simply warm up discussions for the main event.

People forget it’s 2019 not 1979. A Club can’t just ‘sell’ a contracted player and force him to go to any club. Certainly not a high profile multi-millionaire. Bale has to say yes to the terms and, above all, the destination. RM will naturally want him to go the least costly way possible (to them). Gareth will naturally want to go to his favoured destination, regardless of the cost to RM.

Like I said two months ago, ‘high stakes poker and soap opera combined’. Now enter the hero, or villain, depending on your POV. Daniel’s passed the summer focused on Poch’s main targets knowing that this moment would come in time. His target. Why have we stalled on Llorente? Why did Poch say in his press conference he didn’t know about Llorente? Because he wanted to deflect the question. That squad slot is reserved, just in case. Right wing, left wing, reserve striker, combined. Home grown too.

Meanwhile, it’s unfair on GB because he has to keep his mouth shut throughout the saga while all kinds of shit are spouted by Madrid mouthpieces, English journo hacks, Talkshite pundits and angry keyboard warriors. He’s had his reputation trashed and motives slammed by all and sundry entitled to an ‘opinion’.

It was interesting to see his goal ‘celebration’ in RM’s friendly versus Arsenal. Madrid picked him purely for legal reasons (in the event of a future contractual dispute). I suspect he played for similar reasons as well as just to get some pitch time. He certainly didn’t get carried away that he scored.

Time will tell. Not long left now.

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It would seem so

 

[jt hotspur]

Fk he looks like zidane lol

 

[Joeyboey]

It would seem so

600k a week and he doesn’t have hair implants?
Oh Gareth ??‍

 

[Hoddle&Waddle]

I imagine how cool it would be to have a player destroying teams week in week out with a comb over.

Would piss rival fans off no end.

 

[dave5150]

I imagine how cool it would be to have a player destroying teams week in week out with a comb over.

Would piss rival fans off no end.

He wouldn’t be the first...

 

[rossdapep]

I imagine how cool it would be to have a player destroying teams week in week out with a comb over.

Would piss rival fans off no end.

It would piss them off regardless considering he's got a man bun or even a man bun/bald patch

 

[easley91]

Who actually cares about his hair? Seriously? So he has a man bun? So he is balding on top? So he doesn't want implants? Maybe he wants to keep it natural and not add anything?

If he came back and won us trophies, he could have Sane's dreadlocks for all I care.

 

[TheBlueRooster]

Who actually cares about his hair? Seriously? So he has a man bun? So he is balding on top? So he doesn't want implants? Maybe he wants to keep it natural and not add anything?

If he came back and won us trophies, he could have Sane's dreadlocks for all I care.

You're Yul Brynner, you're Yul Brynner, you're Yul Brynner in disguise....you're Yul Brynner in dis..guise.

 

[Spurger King]

It would seem so

Gareth Bald.

 

[ThereIsOnlyOneBent]

Gareth Bald.

Did you make that up yourself? That’s funny. You should apply for a job writing the headlines for The Sun.

 

[Spurger King]

Did you make that up yourself? That’s funny. You should apply for a job writing the headlines for The Sun.

No, I had help. A crack team of professional comedians. We used to be called ‘the funny five’, but after knocking our heads together we came up with ‘the punny guys’ and all had a party to celebrate.

 

[nailsy]

No, I had help. A crack team of professional comedians. We used to be called ‘the funny five’, but after knocking our heads together we came up with ‘the punny guys’ and all had a party to celebrate.

I bet Tim Vine came up with that one!

 

[ThereIsOnlyOneBent]

No, I had help. A crack team of professional comedians. We used to be called ‘the funny five’, but after knocking our heads together we came up with ‘the punny guys’ and all had a party to celebrate.

That’s more like it. One man can’t be that funny. I’m eagerly awaiting the next bits of genius ?

 

[NickHSpurs]

Zidane seems to be back tracking a little, feels like they were relying on pushing him to China and Bale rightly dug his heels in.

 

['O Zio]

Honestly that's the only way I remember him. On strike from training, demanding a move to Madrid, wearing this:

He wasn't on strike though. By all accounts he was left out of training etc. deliberately because we knew he was going. He didn't come out mouthing off in the press and moaning like other players have done, IIRC he just kept his head down and waited for the clubs to sort the fee out.

 

[Gassin's finest]

I bet Tim Vine came up with that one!

Or @Nine while nine

 

[nailsy]

Klopp seems to have confirmed that he won't be joining Liverpool:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...jurgen-klopp-vs-sporting-lisbon-a9019936.html