Gareth Bale

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

're Bale and money,

One guy who was in my weds golf group is my best example, he had sold his business for 12 mil a couple of years back. He always came in the bar last after the round expecting his drink on the table, never once venturing to the bar, he was forever peddling watches fort thousands of pounds. Diagnosed and dead within the Winter this season, taking his 12 mil with him. Had split from his missus after he sold firm and his son wouldn't speak to him. A miserable get who often gets toasted on a weds, "To the regiment" .

I am potless, preferring to spend every penny on City , nice golf club, a few months in Spain every Winter, and good wine. I don't get hoarding.

So many people do it. It’s a hobby to some, watching their money in the bank or wherever it is invested. Once you get past a certain age, spending reduces dramatically. People only need so much yet bang on about leaving their kids X amount when they die etc. I’m thinking - give it to them now you tight arse. They need it now not when they are 60!

I work in finance and almost every client says they don’t want to have to fund their own care yet they don’t do anything about it. Some of them have that much guaranteed income coming in from their big pensions that they could have zero in savings and still live like a king.

 

[Dobsy]

Did they model Gordon Gekko on you ?

Not at all, maybe let me put it another way: if City stop being a financial powerhouse and stop winning trophies, will you stop being a supporter?

I've seen you on here for many years so I'm gonna be presumptuous enough to anticipate that the answer is "no, of course not". So maybe footballing success isn't that high a priority then?

So why do you go? For me it's the shared experience with family. That is important. At the end of the day a Premier League win is insignificant by comparison. Of course it's more fun now than when Pearce was the manager, but is it so much more fun than Keegan's promotion season from Division One?

I don't understand why so many people make the assumption that winning medals and playing on the most competitive stage should always be a footballer's number 1 priority, especially when it's not their number 1 priority.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Not at all, maybe let me put it another way: if City stop being a financial powerhouse and stop winning trophies, will you stop being a supporter?

I've seen you on here for many years so I'm gonna be presumptuous enough to anticipate that the answer is "no, of course not". So maybe footballing success isn't that high a priority then?

So why do you go? For me it's the shared experience with family. That is important. At the end of the day a Premier League win is insignificant by comparison. Of course it's more fun now than when Pearce was the manager, but is it so much more fun than Keegan's promotion season from Division One?

I don't understand why so many people make the assumption that winning medals and playing on the most competitive stage should always be a footballer's number 1 priority, especially when it's not their number 1 priority.

So, in another field, Jimi Hendrix would be happy touring as Kylie Minogue's guitarist provided it was good money ?

 

[Dobsy]

So, in another field, Jimi Hendrix would be happy touring as Kylie Minogue's guitarist provided it was good money ?

That's not quite a fair analogy though is it. We're not talking "good money" as much as life changing money that you can't earn in any other way. Plus a guitarist's career isn't quite as time sensitive as a footballer because of the athletic element.

A fairer comparison is if age 29 Jimi Hendrix was offered a guaranteed way to double the money he was making as a solo artist over the next 5 years, and it was the only route to make that money available to him, and he knew that beyond that time he probably wouldn't have even 1% of the earning potential ever again in his life because the physical condition of his fingers will decline so that he's no longer a guitarist.

And even then, in those circumstances, what I'm saying is if he chose to play guitar for Kylie, I wouldn't say "you'll be happier" I would say "fair enough, it's your life and your choice".

What I wouldn't do is talk smack about how he should behave, or label him a "greedy ****" as some people on here have done.

 

[PrezIke]

If I were Bale I’d stay put as well. I also don’t think it’s about getting more money as much as about what he feels it will take to go to China, where I’m gathering he doesn’t want to go.

I’m not even sure why that’s the question about him here. So everyone thinks he should take a massive wage cut? You're lying if you say you’d do that. We’re talking 10s of millions of pounds here. I’ve heard of players taking less to be a part of a winning team but not to leave when forced out. Otamendi isn’t leaving because he won’t take less. Greedy too?

He wants to fight for his place. That makes him greedy and all about money? He had a contract and he’s not asking to leave it’s Zidane. We know it’s that his wages are so high (whose fault is that, again?) his age and his injury record that the options are impossible to move him to Europe or even MLS.

He can rot on the bench but when they have an injury crisis (Asensio is already out for the season at least) you think he won’t play? Zidane may not last and Pochettino, who has a clearly different relationship with Bale, could be he replacement.

 

[Neville Kneville]

That's not quite a fair analogy though is it. We're not talking "good money" as much as life changing money that you can't earn in any other way. Plus a guitarist's career isn't quite as time sensitive as a footballer because of the athletic element.

A fairer comparison is if age 29 Jimi Hendrix was offered a guaranteed way to double the money he was making as a solo artist over the next 5 years, and it was the only route to make that money available to him, and he knew that beyond that time he probably wouldn't have even 1% of the earning potential ever again in his life because the physical condition of his fingers will decline so that he's no longer a guitarist.

And even then, in those circumstances, what I'm saying is if he chose to play guitar for Kylie, I wouldn't say "you'll be happier" I would say "fair enough, it's your life and your choice".

What I wouldn't do is talk smack about how he should behave, or label him a "greedy ****" as some people on here have done.

Nah, my analogy is fine.

Hendrix wouldn't dream of it unless he was completely skint or washed up.

Some peoole have no soul.

 

[Dobsy]

Nah, my analogy is fine.

Hendrix wouldn't dream of it unless he was completely skint or washed up.

Some peoole have no soul.

Some people have no brain.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Some people have no brain.

Seriously ?

No brain ?

Bacause I think people who spend their young lives working like fuck to perfect a skill, should try to keep a passion for it as long as they can rather than just purely making money,most of which they will still have, when they die ?

 

[asahartford1]

Some people have no brain.

Playing golf today, balesy, rather than gathering his toys, putting them back in his pram, and playing and training in Munich. Unprofessional, mardy and showing any clubs interested that he is past it. Money but no balls I'm afraid.

 

[Dobsy]

Seriously ?

No brain ?

Bacause I think people who spend their young lives working like fuck to perfect a skill, should try to keep a passion for it as long as they can rather than just purely making money,most of which they will still have, when they die ?

Seriously?

No soul?

Because I think that other people might have fair and understandable reasons for making a different decision to the one I would make, that I'm unaware of?