Player Watch: Gareth Bale - Retires

[Steffen]

Galahad (COYS version of the GOAT):

"DL personally doing the work on this one. Not heard if the SO supports or opposes. The algebra has moved from impossible to improbable."

SO = Special One

I may be naïve, but I can't see Dannyboy splashing the cash on Bale if Mourinho actively opposes it.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

The only way this window gets anywhere near 2018 levels is we have Bale lined up on deadline day, Spain gets quarantined and Levy, full of watery ball sack sickness, pulls the trigger on Troy Deeney

 

[mpw]

The algebra = Gareth bale

 

[Joshua]

The algebra = Gareth bale

Most unnecessary cryptic of all time

 

[C0YS]

It's funny, Trix suggesting there has actually been some minor but positive movement actually makes less confident of it happening!

I think the odds are probably less likely than likely. But I suspect some ITKs are managing expectations, knowing how spurs fans can get super carried away and interpret info in whatever way suits them, just like I'm doing now really.

So, my almost baseless speculation is that it's more likely to happen than some ITKs are indicating but less likely to happen than how some fans are hoping.

 

[mil1lion]

ffs might as well just get Eriksen and Friedel back while we're at it.

What an odd combination that is. One is in their prime and still a top player and the other left us for Inter.

 

[TEESSIDE1]

Bale - I’m not going anywhere
Real - you’re now barred from every golf club in Spain, your kids have been expelled and your wife has been banished from every hair and nail salon in Spain

 

[C0YS]

I may be naïve, but I can't see Dannyboy splashing the cash on Bale if Mourinho actively opposes it.

Well actively opposing it maybe not. But when Jol told KPB I never wanted you, and got Kaboul instead of Distin it's not beyond him.

I think Levy would love getting in Bale, I think he likes this idea of being the guy to 'bring him home', so suspect he could push even if Jose is like 'meh'.

 

[Flashp]

Well actively opposing it maybe not. But when Jol told KPB I never wanted you, and got Kaboul instead of Distin it's not beyond him.

I think Levy would love getting in Bale, I think he likes this idea of being the guy to 'bring him home', so suspect he could push even if Jose is like 'meh'.

And why should José oppose it? He'll want all the good players he can get. The only way I see him actually oppose it, is if it blocks one of Josés preferred targets, and we're able to get him in instead.

 

[andrewt]

I'm sure Jose would love bale always seemed to want him when he was with united

 

[yankspurs]

Well actively opposing it maybe not. But when Jol told KPB I never wanted you, and got Kaboul instead of Distin it's not beyond him.

I think Levy would love getting in Bale, I think he likes this idea of being the guy to 'bring him home', so suspect he could push even if Jose is like 'meh'.

I dont think Jose would oppose to bringing in someone of Bale's quality. I know that SC has somehow gotten it through their thick skulls that Bale is a scrub now. But the reality is, when fit and firing, he is still very, very, very, very good and there is no way Jose would object to bringing him in.

 

[VoteMe4Prez]

There is no doubt Jose would love to have Bale at his disposal.

 

[Living Legend Colm G]

The algebra = Gareth bale

That's brilliant.

 

[sausage]

Surely this'll motivate him to get playing again...

I don't play Ultimate Team, but I gather players tend to be a bit bothered by their branding. Seems a bit brutal, eh? Not in their top 100 this year (https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/fifa/fifa-21/ratings/ratings-database).

 

[Derryank]

WOW

that is all

Imagine

 

[glacierSpurs]

Surely this'll motivate him to get playing again...

I don't play Ultimate Team, but I gather players tend to be a bit bothered by their branding. Seems a bit brutal, eh? Not in their top 100 this year (https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/fifa/fifa-21/ratings/ratings-database).

Surely RM can't demand too much from us with such poor stats!

 

[dagraham]

I wonder if Levy has a separate budget for this kind of signing.

 

[Dillspur]

I don't think Jose would oppose the signing, but if we miss out on a target because of the Bale signing, I think that would be a problem

 

[VoteMe4Prez]

I don't think Jose would oppose the signing, but if we miss out on a target because of the Bale signing, I think that would be a problem

Nah, he'd know if we bring him back we are going to win the League

 

[mark87]

What's the latest on Bale? I've been on the piss all day and cant be arsed to search through a shite load of pages.