Gareth Bale | Linked with United again

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With the performances of everyone who has played RW for United this season, it's time to give Tahith Chong a run. No one, including me, thought Scott McTominay would play CM as well as he's done. Chong has been the best of United's reserve team players. No one in the first team is playing well enough at RW to deny Chong his chance. It would be foolish to go into the summer transfer window without knowing what Chong is capable of at RW.
 
We will buy Bale. Madrid will use that cash for Dybala. Sigh.
 
I would take him for anything less than 45-50 mil (with some addons) and play him as a #10 like he does for Wales. Granted I'm in the 4-2-3-1 camp is our best way forward and I don't want to derail the thread.

Lukaku
Sanchez-Bale-Martial
Pogba-Matic
New LB-Bailey-Lindelof-Valencia
De Gea

That's a very very good side, especially if you can add an Alex Sandro or another top level left back to the mix.
 
shamans said:
We should put in a low ball offer. I'd love him for around 20-30 million.
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They're never going to sell him for that. I'd say 70 million is what Madrid will looking for.
They were looking for that number from us for Morata.
 
MaxiPaxi said:
They're never going to sell him for that. I'd say 70 million is what Madrid will looking for.
They were looking for that number from us for Morata.
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They won't or rather shouldn't get any bids that high for Bale given his age and injury record. I only say shouldn't because our board is run by a bunch of idiots.
 
Not keen on the transfer, but if we do it should be a loan deal with a fixed price at the end of the season which is activated providing he manages to make a certain number of appearances.

His athleticism is much more suited to our league, and would be a devastatingly good signing if he stays fit. Could be the solution to our RW woes.
 
FlawlessThaw said:
They won't or rather shouldn't get any bids that high for Bale given his age and injury record. I only say shouldn't because our board is run by a bunch of idiots.
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Madrid really got their act together after selling Robben and Sneijder on the cheap. I can't really remember them selling quality players for reasonable prices.
 
Did you say Real needs money to buy real players. Lets help them out by taking in their overpaid sick note cases
 
He’s on stupid money and Madrid would want a big fee, his injury record makes him too much of a risk we need to stay clear.

The only way any club is buying Bale is if a deal could be reached where Madrid get money based on appearances, there’s probably 4-5 clubs who could pay his wages and none of those would surely pay cash upfront.
 
Klean said:
I would take him for anything less than 45-50 mil (with some addons) and play him as a #10 like he does for Wales. Granted I'm in the 4-2-3-1 camp is our best way forward and I don't want to derail the thread.

Lukaku
Sanchez-Bale-Martial
Pogba-Matic
New LB-Bailey-Lindelof-Valencia
De Gea

That's a very very good side, especially if you can add an Alex Sandro or another top level left back to the mix.
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Why would you buy Bailey and play him as a CB?
Spelling aside, what's the point of Bale if you play Martial on the right?
 
Klean said:
I would take him for anything less than 45-50 mil (with some addons) and play him as a #10 like he does for Wales. Granted I'm in the 4-2-3-1 camp is our best way forward and I don't want to derail the thread.

Lukaku
Sanchez-Bale-Martial
Pogba-Matic
New LB-Bailey-Lindelof-Valencia
De Gea

That's a very very good side, especially if you can add an Alex Sandro or another top level left back to the mix.
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Football would be largely the same though.
 
Klean said:
I would take him for anything less than 45-50 mil (with some addons) and play him as a #10 like he does for Wales. Granted I'm in the 4-2-3-1 camp is our best way forward and I don't want to derail the thread.

Lukaku
Sanchez-Bale-Martial
Pogba-Matic
New LB-Bailey-Lindelof-Valencia
De Gea

That's a very very good side, especially if you can add an Alex Sandro or another top level left back to the mix.
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Thats a very weak midfield, we would continue to get beaten there.
 
Klean said:
I would take him for anything less than 45-50 mil (with some addons) and play him as a #10 like he does for Wales. Granted I'm in the 4-2-3-1 camp is our best way forward and I don't want to derail the thread.

Lukaku
Sanchez-Bale-Martial
Pogba-Matic
New LB-Bailey-Lindelof-Valencia
De Gea

That's a very very good side, especially if you can add an Alex Sandro or another top level left back to the mix.
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If we buy Bale, we'd most likely see Martial sold and have Rashford, Mata and Lingard as the backups for the attacking positions (maybe Pereira too but I think he'd be a goner as well).

De Gea/New GK

Valencia Bailly ??? New LB
Matic
New CM Pogba
Bale Lukaku Alexis​

Second string:

Romero/Other GK

Fosu-Mensah ??? ??? Shaw/Young
New DM
McTominay Herrera
Mata Rashford Lingard/Pereira​

???'s for the CBs because I have no idea what Jose's order of preference would be when all fit.
 
Maybe they can loan him like they did with James? If so, I would gladly take him.
 
We really, really, really don't need Bale. I hope we don't sign him if he's offered. We have other area's of the team that need drastic reinforcement before we even think about bringing him in.
 
Klean said:
I would take him for anything less than 45-50 mil (with some addons) and play him as a #10 like he does for Wales. Granted I'm in the 4-2-3-1 camp is our best way forward and I don't want to derail the thread.

Lukaku
Sanchez-Bale-Martial
Pogba-Matic
New LB-Bailey-Lindelof-Valencia
De Gea

That's a very very good side, especially if you can add an Alex Sandro or another top level left back to the mix.
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Don't think we'll see him and De Gea in same side - has part-exchange written all over it.
 
MaxiPaxi said:
They're never going to sell him for that. I'd say 70 million is what Madrid will looking for.
They were looking for that number from us for Morata.
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Nobody's going to pay that though. If they're serious about getting rid to fund other transfers, they'll need to be realistic with their demands or else they'll be stuck with him.
 
SS said:
Nobody's going to pay that though. If they're serious about getting rid to fund other transfers, they'll need to be realistic with their demands or else they'll be stuck with him.
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Well you'd think that but 70 million for Bale? Is it really that big of a price when vvd goes for 5 million more?
 
MaxiPaxi said:
Well you'd think that but 70 million for Bale? Is it really that big of a price when vvd goes for 5 million more?
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Of course it is - Bale's salary is probably at least 3 times more than Van Dijk and the probability of the Welshman missing half the season through injury is extremely high.

The club might find a way to milk such a signing and actually earn money from it in the long-run through shirt sales, sponsorships and all the rest, but at the moment the budget needs to be spent wisely.
 
diplomat said:
Of course it is - Bale's salary is probably at least 3 times more than Van Dijk and the probability of the Welshman missing half the season through injury is extremely high.

The club might find a way to milk such a signing and actually earn money from it in the long-run through shirt sales, sponsorships and all the rest, but at the moment the budget needs to be spent wisely.
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Well thats the thing. Woodward would see him as a commercial cash cow. He generated 599090000 million interactions etc.. etc..
 
MaxiPaxi said:
Well thats the thing. Woodward would see him as a commercial cash cow. He generated 599090000 million interactions etc.. etc..
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It will mean that for Woodward and the club, financial gain in the short-term is prioritised over football success and stability in the long-run.
 
MaxiPaxi said:
Madrid really got their act together after selling Robben and Sneijder on the cheap. I can't really remember them selling quality players for reasonable prices.
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They struggled to sell James just last summer and in the end had to make do with a try before you buy deal, I suspect Bale will be a similar type of deal. Considering the inflation of prices in the past two years, they even have to make a loss on James if Bayern move forward with the deal.
 
Signing Bale would be the mother of all bad football related ideas.

I don't think it'll happen.
 
Bale and Kane.

Honestly I think they both have the United DNA. If we were to get them both, I think we would dominate the Prem.
 
diplomat said:
His agent said Bale should cost "at least as much as Neymar, if not more". It's never going to happen and it's actually for the better.
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If the World Cup was being held in Wales I could understand that thinking but at this point Bale is worth no more than 60 mil. Neymar's price was down to a number of things but the first wasn't football.
 
pascell said:
Rather give minutes to Chong and invest in two CMs, a CB and a LB.
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That’s being optimistic.

You do realise not many youth prospects make it at United? Possebon, Petrucci, Januzaj, Daehli, Vermijl, Macheda... the list goes on.

I want Chong and Gomes to be a massive success here but to turn down the opportunity to sign world class players at the expense of hoping they become world class themselves is madness. If they’re good enough, they’ll play. And if they don’t make it, it won’t be because we signed Bale or Kane or whoever.
 
Jaybomb said:
That’s being optimistic.

You do realise not many youth prospects make it at United? Possebon, Petrucci, Januzaj, Daehli, Vermijl, Macheda... the list goes on.

I want Chong and Gomes to be a massive success here but to turn down the opportunity to sign world class players at the expense of hoping they become world class themselves is madness. If they’re good enough, they’ll play. And if they don’t make it, it won’t be because we signed Bale or Kane or whoever.
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I'm not saying start the kid week in, week out, I'm saying give him minutes to develop.

I do realise that but I also realise a lot of players have made it at United, Brown, Fletcher, O'Shea, Lingard, Rashford, Class of 92, The Busby Babes. Infact in terms of players that go on to have solid playing careers, our youth system has one of the best track records in the world.

Bale wouldn't be worth it, his body is shot and won't get any better, he's had too many muscular injuries. Plus, he's on €500-600k a week at Real, we'd be fools to pay him half that.
 
It's one of those funny cases where everybody can see that the player is constantly injured, unreliable, rejected to join us before and on top of that Madrid would ask great money for him and the player himself would demand big bucks, yet you see people who'd still want him here. I genuinely never can tell whether it's a case of total delusion or idiocy.
 
If we have Jose in charge then I don't see us signing him. I don't remember Jose signing injury prone player before, especially for a huge fee and wages.
 
Bale, if fit instantly improves us.

I can see why we are linked.

My concern is with the majority, age and fitness.

Another concern is if we sign Bale, we'd surely need to sell at least 1, possible 2 forwards to accommodate.

So we sign Bale, he'd play wide right. That means Sanchez stays wide left, that means Martial is no longer a starter. This also means Mata;s game time is limited.
If we play 4-3-3, there's no place for Lingard or Rashford either.
If we play 4-2-3-1, we accommodate another attacker, but as we have seen recently our midfield suffers.

Now I know we need to keep a healthy squad, but I cant see Lukaku, Sanchez, Martial, Rashford, Lingard, Mata and Bale for 3 spots. At least one would go (Mata would be logical, but I cant see Martial being happy with a limited role)

The second thing is our squad, we have good options in attack and I'd question whether we actually NEED Bale. Sure he'd be a headline signing and make a statement, but our midfield is crying out for attention. For me, we need this area addressed as a priority.

Then we may need some shuffling defensively, Darmian and Blind look likely to go, Smalling and Jones have had another poor season. Full back area isn't great long term.

Bale looks like a fantasy signing, we need a bit of movement around the squad and I cant see that much out-goings in one window.

Bale-De-Gea swap is the only way I see this happening. And that would be a terrible deal for utd. But De-Gea will end up in Madrid at some point
 
it would be really a tremendous operation, it's about thirty now, it has always had injuries in the last few years in Madrid, it will surely want a mountain of money and we should pay a lot more money to get him.
It does not make sense, 266 days injured in the last 3 seasons ... he's obviously a world class player if fit, but.... please no.
 
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