FIFTY feckING MILLION?
Are you having a laugh? We'd be lucky to get that for Fabregas who is seven times the player Bale is... But you think someone would offer 50 million for Gareth fecking Bale?
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FIFTY feckING MILLION?
Are you having a laugh? We'd be lucky to get that for Fabregas who is seven times the player Bale is... But you think someone would offer 50 million for Gareth fecking Bale?
That's not really fair.
He can only do his best against the oppositoin put infront of him. He tore the European champions to shreds, twice. Deal with it.
Seriously, 50 million.... Classic Glaston.Rafael owned Bale so that makes hima £60m player
So he went from £2.5m to £60m after 1 game!
It is a somewhat ridiculous price, I agree.
Right this is getting ridiculous now. Gareth Bale? £50 million? Jesus Christ.
What's also ridiculous is to expect that Spurs, a club that isn't short of cash, doesn't wish to sell and has ambitions of their own, would be willing to sell their prize asset for anything less than a ridiculous sum ... especially with a hard-nose like Levy in charge.
FIFTY feckING MILLION?
Are you having a laugh? We'd be lucky to get that for Fabregas who is seven times the player Bale is... But you think someone would offer 50 million for Gareth fecking Bale?
It's actually hilarious just how deluded Glaston Spastic is. It's a shame really, I normally quite enjoy watching Spurs, but GS has actually managed to make wanting them to win incredibly difficult.
His point is though United won't be playing against Italian sides week-in week-out, but instead the sides that seem to have had him reasonably covered so far this season.
I reckon £25-£30m would get him.
Remember £26m gets you David fecking Villa!
Glaston is cluless.
Remember £26m gets you David fecking Villa!
Glaston is cluless.
FIFTY feckING MILLION?
Are you having a laugh? We'd be lucky to get that for Fabregas who is seven times the player Bale is... But you think someone would offer 50 million for Gareth fecking Bale?
Unfortunately they have priced bale off what we paid for Berba so there is some logic to their madness but only Shitty would shell out that much. It's not beyond the realms of the impossible.
Going by Glaston's logic, yeah it does
John O'Shea was the most valuable player in the world right after that Figo nutmeg.
Ah but that would only get you just over half of Gareth Bale.
You can't argue with it, It's Glaston logic.
'Somewhat' ridiculous?
It's beyond ludicrous. Bale isn't near a 30 million pound player, let alone 50. Though I understand your point. But you seem to have taken the fact he could want to leave for a big club out of the equation.
Berbatov wanted out when United came knocking, if United came knocking for Bale I'd put money on him wanting to take the next step in his career - regardless of Spurs seeming success.
Just like with the wishful thinking re. Berba fee - before the 30.7m was agreed - most of the posters on here just don't get it.
It's not what you (or anyone else) think he's worth, it's what Spurs would be willing to sell him for - the two things are not the same. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Just as I was right when the Berba fee was being discussed, I'm confident I'll be proved right IF Bale is sold.
The Berba fee was inflated because SAF wanted to beet the idiots at city and we have learned our less - don't bid against a fool.
None of the top teams are in desperate need of Bale. Real have Ron, Barca have Messi, Chelsea have Drogba, we have Rooney etc..
I agree the price is what you can get someone to pay not what value we perceive him to be and £50m will only be paid by Shitty.
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Notice the post above yours, like I said I understand where you're coming from there. But if Bale wants out there's no way the club would refuse 25 million, no fecking way. That's a HUGE fee for a winger who has one trick to his name... He's a great deliverer of the ball, yes, but defending against the knock-and-run isn't the hardest thing to work out.
Notice the post above yours, like I said I understand where you're coming from there. But if Bale wants out there's no way the club would refuse 25 million, no fecking way. That's a HUGE fee for a winger who has one trick to his name... He's a great deliverer of the ball, yes, but defending against the knock-and-run isn't the hardest thing to work out.
It's actually hilarious just how deluded Glaston Spastic is. It's a shame really, I normally quite enjoy watching Spurs, but GS has actually managed to make wanting them to win incredibly difficult.
Sucks, doesn't it?
Quite an achievement for one bloke to join a rival board and manage to make loads of regulars start to dislike a club they formerly had a soft spot for.
By all accounts he's achieved the exact same thing on an Aston Villa board too.
Glastonspaz, turning people off Spurs the world over.
I feel the same way. He actually made me hate Spurs. Then the arsenal fans came along and made me somewhat like Spurs again because of their holier than thou attitude towards Spurs. So basically, should I like Spurs or not?
It's actually hilarious just how deluded Glaston Spastic is. It's a shame really, I normally quite enjoy watching Spurs, but GS has actually managed to make wanting them to win incredibly difficult.
So it's "not really fair" to judge a player over the potential and ability they've shown overall during their career, as opposed to judging them based on two one off games, which were against the same opponent?
How do you work that one out?
"deal with it"If you think he's worth spending £30m+ on, based on two games, I'm not trying to stop you. Though I am glad you're not in charge of Manchester United's tranfer policy.
So it's "not really fair" to judge a player over the potential and ability they've shown overall during their career, as opposed to judging them based on two one off games, which were against the same opponent?
How do you work that one out?
If you think he's worth spending £30m+ on, based on two games, I'm not trying to stop you. Though I am glad you're not in charge of Manchester United's tranfer policy.
You have to take potential into that too. I even think £30m is too much for him. I simply stated a figure I reckon Spurs would deal at. I don't think he's worth any more than £20m.
As far as taking his best games out the equation to make an assessment on him, that's a strange way to look at it. I think he should be judged on all his games as a left winger since he's been playing regularly.
So it's "not really fair" to judge a player over the potential and ability they've shown overall during their career, as opposed to judging them based on two one off games, which were against the same opponent?
How do you work that one out?
If you think he's worth spending £30m+ on, based on two games, I'm not trying to stop you. Though I am glad you're not in charge of Manchester United's tranfer policy.
I could say the same about you, it's unlikely we would have bought Ronaldo had he not played so well against us in a friendly match. Sometimes it is very easy to spot a talented player just by watching a single game, it's even easier if he has been consistently excellent over the course of pretty much an entire year only to enhance his reputation further with 2 extraordinary performances against the European champions with probably the best right back in the world up against him.
Actually the saga wasn't about Spurs getting stronger or weaker, the saga was about whether Berbatov would stay or go.
Like the Rooney saga, stay or go.
Ronaldo saga, stay or go.
etc
etc
etc
Saga - A word Glaston clearly does not understand.
Yeah, but the point is, his two games against Milan very much go against the norm, so unless he can sustain that level of performance, or at least show it slightly more often, there's not too much point reading that much into it...not until he starts to prove he might be able to sustain a similar level or produce similar displays as more than a one off. It's not like he only burst onto the scene last week, he's been playing regularly for a few years.
There's also Milan's defending...it was so fecking shite. This doesn't change or become impossible just because they have this "European Champions" tag. You only have to look at the clips to see they weren't doing what they should have been. You have to give credit to Bale for taking full advantage and making Inter look like a bunch of Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime, but there's two sides to every coin.
I'm of the thinking that he's a better player than I thought he was say, six months ago, but still nowhere near good enough to blow a huge amount of money on, and then bring to OT under the pressure of him having to justify it. He's no Rooney. He'd never be able to live up to that.
I think what I'm trying to say is, you don't base potential on one off performances, when you can assess it over a period of a few years instead, as is the case with Bale.
Personally, though this is definitely a debatable point, I reckon Walcott's got a lot more potetial for improvement, because there's more raw ability there, and more room for improvement in terms of things like decision making and maturity.
I'm not trying to knock Bale too much. If he was already a United player he'd be a promising one and good enough to make an impact, for sure, but we've already missed the boat, imo. Picking a player up for a semi-modest fee and then allowing them to develop isn't the same as paying a huge fee and signing them with the expectation of being a world beater.
It's been stated by United and even Ferguson on numerous occasions that the deal to sign Ronaldo was already on the table long before that friendly game. I don't know why people just keep ingoring this. Probably because people are idiots.
Also, just a hunch, but I think Ronaldo might be slightly more talented than Gareth Bale,
and also, we paid £12m for Ronaldo, when he was 18. See above post
I think he's a Gooner. He must be.
GARETH BALE SOLD TO SAN DIEGO ZOO
TOTTENHAM'S Gareth Bale is to become the star attraction in a Californian zoo, it was confirmed last night.
He can also balance it on his nose
The adult male wing-back will be gradually introduced to his new teammates over the summer, which may include David Beckham if funding for a new breeding program is approved.
Keepers in San Diego hope that Bale settles in quicker than at Tottenham, where Harry Redknapp had to live with the creature's family of mixed Welsh for over six months before eventually gaining their trust.
The Spurs manager said: "It will be a shame to lose him but he's already started swinging on the Crouch and flinging his poop at supporters in a bid to display his dominance.
"He's a magnificent specimen and the last thing we want to see is him ending out his days at White Hart Lane rocking back and forth and masturbating with a forlorn expression on his once noble face. Nobody wants another David Ginola on their hands."
Bale came to the world's attention after savaging Inter Milan's Maicon so badly that the right-back later had to be destroyed. Redknapp initially said that he had no intention of selling the club's most popular exhibit since Ricky & Ossie, Tottenham's famous pair of novelty Argentinians, in the late 1970s.
But he was eventually convinced that, given the endangered status of Welsh footballers, Bale was better off in San Diego as they were currently negotiating access to a Zeta Jones.
Redknapp said: "There's only three decent Welsh left in captivity, and with Giggs too old and Bellamy too repulsive to find a breeding partner we have to do what's right for footballing conservation if we ever want to recapture the days when the Big Nosed Rush stood patiently on goal lines across the whole of England."
From The Daily Mash
TOTTENHAM'S Gareth Bale is to become the star attraction in a Californian zoo, it was confirmed last night.
He can also balance it on his nose
The adult male wing-back will be gradually introduced to his new teammates over the summer, which may include David Beckham if funding for a new breeding program is approved.
Keepers in San Diego hope that Bale settles in quicker than at Tottenham, where Harry Redknapp had to live with the creature's family of mixed Welsh for over six months before eventually gaining their trust.
The Spurs manager said: "It will be a shame to lose him but he's already started swinging on the Crouch and flinging his poop at supporters in a bid to display his dominance.
"He's a magnificent specimen and the last thing we want to see is him ending out his days at White Hart Lane rocking back and forth and masturbating with a forlorn expression on his once noble face. Nobody wants another David Ginola on their hands."
Bale came to the world's attention after savaging Inter Milan's Maicon so badly that the right-back later had to be destroyed. Redknapp initially said that he had no intention of selling the club's most popular exhibit since Ricky & Ossie, Tottenham's famous pair of novelty Argentinians, in the late 1970s.
But he was eventually convinced that, given the endangered status of Welsh footballers, Bale was better off in San Diego as they were currently negotiating access to a Zeta Jones.
Redknapp said: "There's only three decent Welsh left in captivity, and with Giggs too old and Bellamy too repulsive to find a breeding partner we have to do what's right for footballing conservation if we ever want to recapture the days when the Big Nosed Rush stood patiently on goal lines across the whole of England."
From The Daily Mash
I thought it was stated that we knew about ronaldo and were thinking about signing him a year or two later then we eventually did, but because of the friendly, the increased speculation from italian and spanish clubs, and our players begging him to sign him, fergie did it
Bale looks like the guy from Gorillaz.
There is something definititley apish about him.
There is something definititley apish about him.
I think it's incredibly naive to think United, a club with a scouting network which spans the entire globe, would agree to a partnership deal with Sporting Lisbon, which included preferential option on any player they wished to sell, and just coincidentally end up signing one of the brightest young talents in World football from them in the immediate aftermath, based on a friendly game which was only organised as part of the said partnership deal in the first place.
Well we signed Bebe without looking at him, didn't we?
You're right about Ronaldo though in fairness, there's no way he was snapped up early purely because our players begged SAF to do so.
I find the fees that are being thrown around for Bale laughable, I mean, I won't lie, he's a super talent, I'd have the lad on our left wing as the long term Ryan Giggs replacement in a heartbeat, but to say he's worth more than £20-25m is just crazy, considering Valencia was £16m and is basically Bale on the right hand side without as sweet a shot.
I don't get the Glaston slack, he actually put in Spurs perspective, Spurs have the money, they don't need to sell, so unless you don't offer 50m, we won't sell, is Bale worth that? GS said himself that he doesn't believe that he should be worth that much...
If you really believe that then I give up. We sold Berbatov for 6m more than your figure, prices have moved on again since then, and Bale:
* Is 6 or 7 years younger than Berbatov was at the time
* Has much longer left on his contract than did Berbatov
* Will likely not kick up the fuss that Berbatov did about leaving
* Has announced his arrival on the European stage in way that Berbatov never did.
* Is more important to the future of Spurs than Berbatov was.
* Has the future potential to become the best player in the world in his position, which never applied to Berbatov in the same degree.
Moreover, Spurs are in a stronger position now than 2 years ago - in every sense of the word.
25m my arse. Levy wouldn't even pick up the phone.
Bale isn't going anywhere except to LB for Spurs.
How much in debt were Valencia? How badly did they need cash?
Valencia ain't Spurs, and when it comes to bottomless pockets Man. Utd ain't Man. City.
I say again, I got the same clueless flak on here when it came to discussing Berba's likely fee. I was right and most of the muppets were wrong. Nothing's changed.
If you really believe that then I give up. We sold Berbatov for 6m more than your figure, prices have moved on again since then, and Bale:
* Is 6 or 7 years younger than Berbatov was at the time
And Far far less proven. And that's not even taking into the fact he's nowhere near as good a player as Berbatov.
* Will likely not kick up the fuss that Berbatov did about leaving
You have no idea if this is the case or not. Many players, better then Bale, have had there heads turned by bigger club and kicked up a fuss.
* Has announced his arrival on the European stage in way that Berbatov never did.
Hardly Berba's fault Spurs weren't in the CL when he arrived. Anyways, his 48 International goals are far more of an announcement on the world stage, nevermind the European stage.
Bale's had two fantastic performances that have announced him. Put it into a little perspective.
* Is more important to the future of Spurs than Berbatov was.
Berbatov was far and away the best player in the team, and if he was still there, he still would be. Bale is not.
* Has the future potential to become the best player in the world in his position
Jesus Christ. You must be a WUM.
Moreover, Spurs are in a stronger position now than 2 years ago - in every sense of the word.
If City and one other club finish above you this season then you're in the same position as two years ago. Plus Arry's gonna feck off as soon as the England job becomes available. And you know it.
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Hopefully not ... but that's the whole fecking point: Spurs don't want to sell and won't sell unless crazy money is offered.
It's a simple, basic concept - not hard to understand. "Worth" or "value for money" is not the same as "price" - they are two different things. This is what Levy understands clearly, but so many posters on here don't.
To be fair it would take a lot for Bale to move. Easily over £30m and probably £40m. All the facts suggest it:
- He has ages left on his contract.
- He has stated his desire to see out his contract.
- Spurs are doing very well at the moment.
- He is 21 years old and is definitely in the top 3 left wingers in the world.
Don't forget we paid £30m for a 'fat scouse lump', as United supporters were calling him then. Player values have inflated ridiculously since then too so there is no way anyone is going to nick Gareth Bale for under £30m.
- He has ages left on his contract.
- He has stated his desire to see out his contract.
- Spurs are doing very well at the moment.
- He is 21 years old and is definitely in the top 3 left wingers in the world.
Don't forget we paid £30m for a 'fat scouse lump', as United supporters were calling him then. Player values have inflated ridiculously since then too so there is no way anyone is going to nick Gareth Bale for under £30m.
As I pointed out before they are going to price bale off what they got for Berba.
BUT the whole world and his dog knows we overpaid massiveky for Berba so unless we are demented it won't happen again.
Barca learned their lesson with Ibra and Real with Kaka - don't expect big bids from either of these clubs. All that remains is Shitty.
He's not one of the top 3 anything. That's just fecking nonsense. He's a young player who's had a couple of good games (one when the result was already decided).
He's had more than two good games, in fairness.
Was excellent against Chelsea towards the end of last season. Haven't watched Spuds in the league much this season but he seems to be doing well.
Was excellent against Chelsea towards the end of last season. Haven't watched Spuds in the league much this season but he seems to be doing well.
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