We put a starting offer of 25 million for Fabregas. Do you see United ever going to 85 million for any player? And that's the starting offer of Madrid as well.. Like it or not, we are trying to prove a point and have a policy of not getting mixed up in the super ridiculous money stakes.
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Out of the price range we'd be willing to pay though, which amounts to the same thing in the end.
This is mathematics. I doubt that scouse are any good in economy.
Point stands that corrected for inflation, Ronaldo is still more expensive. Its irrevelant anyway, 85m is still too much for Bale.
Barca spend their share as well, they don't generate as much as Madrid from departing players.
Madrid have sold Higuain for £33m, Albiol for £10.5m, Callejon for £8.6m and Pedro Leon for £6m this Summer. Their net spend is close to nothing assuming they get VAT money back from Illarramendi deal - Isco for £26m, Illarramendi for £26m (£21m without VAT), Carvajal for £6m and Casemiro for £5m.
Last season they only signed Modric for £26m and Lopez for £3m while selling Diarra, Granero, Canales, Gago and Altintop for a total of £30m.
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I'm not isn't mathematics. I'm saying inflation is irrelevant, it's clutching at straws just to keep your favourite player as a record breaker.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8094864.stm
In 2006 they agreed to a TV deal worth 1.1 billion euros for coverage upto last season, that's an incredible amount. 1.1 billion! The next year they accepted an image rights deal with Adidas worth 762m euros.
I don't think Madrid have offered £85m.
I don't think Madrid have even made an offer yet.
I don't think Bale is pushing for a move.
I don't think Madrid have even made an offer yet.
I don't think Bale is pushing for a move.
True but thats the only way not to make ronnie cry.
I seem to remember a list(which are released yearly I guess) on which United were third behind Barca and United. United used to be second behind Madrid but recently slipped to third. Anyways may be you know more about it.
Value of the club is a different thing on which United slipped from 1st to second. I do expect us to comeback on that thing though. Anyways that is all pointless, simple thing is no matter how, but Madrid seem to have a lot of money.
Right. But they don't just pick names out of a hat, they scout the players and decide who they want above all other players and then they go all out to sign them. How is that panicking? Thats the opposite of panicking. If they left it till the last day of the window and tried to sign Nani for £60 million because they couldnt get Bale, thats panicking. Going after your first choice with time to spare and not absolutely having to sell Ronaldo for it to happen, is not panicking. At worst it's moving on without your star player but paying way too much because the club your first choice is playing for are notoriously difficult to talk to.
We can't even say that every supporter in madrid, contributes a bit of money so that they can have their annual Muppet feast, since they all are unemployed.
Eh? Then I suggest taking off your tinfoil hat.
There can't be this much smoke without a fire.
This will hurt Ronaldo's ego. Good job he is coming home.
There can be when most of it comes from Marca.
But that was the initial point in fairness, I wasn't sure if there wasn't more going on that didn't meet the eye.
First may be debatable but i do think that Madrid will have made an opening bid to test the waters, plus it's been widely reported that contract talks are ongoing. I don't think they'd be going on for so long unless Bale was pushing, even if it was slightly, for a move.
Shoe's on the other foot now Vato. All the 'smoke' comes from one article. It's entirely possible that nothing has happened.
Tottenham's official Facebook page has apparently removed the image of Gareth Bale as its header. What say to that? Is that Marca?
Gareth Bale: Spurs forward 'wants to speak to Real Madrid'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23490932
Wow, two articles. That's about ten percent of the material written about us and Thiago.
No.
And their bank / commercial debt is down to 125m Euros - on which they pay low rates of interest.
They have a football trading debt (to other clubs) but nothing they can't service in FFP terms.
How anyone can think there's absolutely nothing going on at this point is beyond me.
The scars of Thiago are still fresh.
Obviously not down to Marca. Who knows, I rarely look at the Spurs FB page ... perhaps the banner picture is periodically rotated at set intervals (there are other players in our squad besides Bale you know)?
Or perhaps RM have offered £90m + Coentrao? If so, I'd happily take that.
They've got similar youth budgets. Madrid have a bigger youth structure but fewer living on club premises. Madrid are major suppliers of young players to the rest of La Liga, they just struggle to get them into their own team.
Barca have been going through a stage with their first team recently like the one we had in the 90s. It's not typical historically and the issues they've had this summer with Thiago and the players they've had to loan out, tells you what a difficult trick it is to pull off.
Would certainly wipe the smug smile off a few Tottenham fans faces if Bale went. Some of them think they'll be giving us a right rivalling this year.
Without Bale? Not so much.
Without Bale? Not so much.
Yeah, definately. But not for just £85m, because that would be silly, eh?
How much would you valuate Messi in today's market?
Nobody of note though. Without Bale you're pretty much Aston Villa.
I was more meaning the England team, you are right it would do nothing for English football in general.
You mean the Welsh team?
When Bale is sold for £85m, HE will be the most expensive, not Ronaldo, are Madrid paying us the inflation value every year, I dont think so, they paid us £80m.
With £85m+ to spend, plus Paulinho and Soldado already done .... in that event you might want to hold your horses a second or two.
Priceless
Levy should accept in a heartbeat. Bale's 30 goals are replaceable by Soldado, but it's his match winning moments and general heroics that need replacing and Spurs would need to sign a world class player or 2 to make up for that. Getting Modric back would make sense.
Thought he was in our sights?
Tbf although Modric is quality that's probably least where they need a player. If they can get someone they should get Di Maria as they'll need a new winger anyway.
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