Gareth Bale

[eastlands oasis]

AVB said very clearly in a press conference today that he's not for sale.

SSN have been running the interview this evening.

This deal is either not going to happen, or it's Spurs trying to maximise his price. I think they will have to sell him otherwise the player will be very unhappy

They said the same about berbatov and Modric, that neither were for sale, it's their way of bumping the price up. Without CL football to keep him at Spurs it will be almost impossible to stop Madrid getting him

 

[Mrmcfc]

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[bluebanjo]

Reports say Madrid have only offered 20m in payment with the rest in installments, surely its not in Spurs interest to do this. I would demand full payment or no deal.

 

[Marvin]

AVB said very clearly in a press conference today that he's not for sale.

SSN have been running the interview this evening.

This deal is either not going to happen, or it's Spurs trying to maximise his price. I think they will have to sell him otherwise the player will be very unhappy

Talk about covering all your bets Marvin ;-)

I could not work AVB out. He sounded very genuine. If its true that Real Madrid want to pay £20m pa, then maybe spurs are better off trying to keep him. If they sell him now, it will be difficult to get new players in and get into the top 4. Once you are outside the top 4 it's not easy to spend 50 or 60m on world class players if they only have eyes for CL clubs

 

[Dodgemeister]

Reports say Madrid have only offered 20m in payment with the rest in installments, surely its not in Spurs interest to do this. I would demand full payment or no deal.

I've read that RM are going to businesses to get them to invest in this Bale deal, then I read this offer of installment payments. So is this just the way bigger transfers work? or does it indicate they do not have the cash?

I always thought the Spanish government funded RM, when they needed cash?

 

[blightee]

you think the spanish government have money? lol don't be silly

 

[mancboy123]

AVB said very clearly in a press conference today that he's not for sale.

SSN have been running the interview this evening.

This deal is either not going to happen, or it's Spurs trying to maximise his price. I think they will have to sell him otherwise the player will be very unhappy

Talk about covering all your bets Marvin ;-)

I could not work AVB out. He sounded very genuine. If its true that Real Madrid want to pay £20m pa, then maybe spurs are better off trying to keep him. If they sell him now, it will be difficult to get new players in and get into the top 4. Once you are outside the top 4 it's not easy to spend 50 or 60m on world class players if they only have eyes for CL clubs

AVB always sounds very genuine, he is alot like rodgers in that respect, he is good for the press, he gives a good soundbite and knows how to work the room and says all the right things but realistically he probs knows bale wants to go otherwise why say the things he said, he could have just come out and said bale has told me wants to stay and we had a conversation with real to inform them of that fact. But all he has said is that they shouldnt have gone public with the conversations because the player isnt for sale, it sounds great in an interview like spurs standing up to the big bad real but all it is doing is setting the scene for them to be able to say well they offered so much we just couldnt refuse in the end a bit like what happened with us and fernandihno.

 

[Marvin]

So the best indicator of whether this transfer is going through will be spurs activity in the transfer market. Their first priority should be a central defender.

 

[waspish]

Nowt new about a clubs paying in instalments 20m a year for the next 6 years I read 120m

 

[Super David Silva 21]

Is Bale the start of the end where someone has to put their foot down somewhere and say that's just ridiculous.

Only say this as Rodgers has pointed out that if Bales worth £100 million then they have every right then to probably ask for £130 million for Suarez

whose the better Suarez or Bale???