Bale is the one player I've wanted to join City since he left the Spurs. I'm hoping he continues to get abuse by the Real fans and just says to himself, "time to go home, I'm done with this". If not this year, hopefully next season.
I just can't believe that our owners didn't put some kind of stipulation (like having first crack at their players that they were looking to bin off) in the contract when they lent Real Madrid all that money. Maybe it was on a handshake, but really Sheik Mansour held the upper hand on this as it sounds like Real Madrid didn't have a lot of options when they were looking for that loan.
And one more thing and this goes to Bill. It looks like you changed your name from DeNiro. Why the change? I think I finally hit my 100 post - which if I remember correctly I can finally start my own thread, though I just saw someone start a thread with like 26 posts. Go figure.